I Love A Good Mystery - Novel

I read like crazy, from fantasy, to woman's fiction, to horror - but my all-time favorite genre is mystery. And all kinds of mysteries too - not just your regular Agatha Christie. Like Patricia Cornwell (gotta love Kay Scarpetta), or Tess Gerritsen. Other authors I enjoy include Sue Grafton, Mary Higgens Clark, and James Patterson (his "Women's Murder Club" series). I really like to not know what's going to happen next - to think I have the answer all figured out, then when I get to the end, find out I was SOOOO wrong, lol. These are definitely the best books to curl up with on a lazy afternoon. However, I don't like not knowing what's going to happen next in real life. Some people say "just go with the flow, whatever happens, happens" - but this is not enough for me sometimes. Sometimes I need to know things - sometimes I like to be pre-warned. I don't enjoy being caught off-guard. Is it in my nature to want to be prepared? Or is it just conditioning from a lifetime of having the rug pulled out from under my feet when I least expect it? Who knows? All I know is that I don't like it - but I also know there's not much I can do about it. So I deal with it, however I can - and hope I can get through it okay. What else can I do?

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