On Turpentine Lane by Eleanor Lipman

I have read a few books by this author and always enjoy them. They are light, funny, entertaining and fast to read. I read this one in a weekend. And it was a weekend that I did a lot of work, too!  The book was a breeze.
Here's the NYTimes review:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/books/review/on-turpentine-lane-elinor-lipman.html?mcubz=3&_r=0

Thoroughly enjoyable.......

You Belong to Me by Colin Harrison

I had not read a book by Colin Harrison in SO many years, but he wrote a book, Bodies Electric, that I remember  LOVING when I read it way back when. So when his new book came out, I ordered it from the Library and waited for it. Worth the wait! I had not read a thriller in a while and it was the perfect summer read.
It has this interesting component - old maps - that I found fascinating. The protagonist, Paul Reeves, collects maps and will do anything to get the ones he wants.  Here's an excerpt from Kirkus to describe the tenor of this book.

...an elaborate story with many moving parts, some of them involving large piles of money, hit men of a decidedly murderous bent, wealthy expats and players from shadowy sultanates, map thieves, drug dealers and crackheads, and an assortment of other people you probably wouldn’t want to know. When the body count starts to rise, it’s up to Paul to save his skin while trying to figure out how to grab the object of his dreams, to say nothing of luscious Jennifer Mehraz. Harrison’s story moves nimbly across a populous, MacGuffin-strewn landscape, and though it doesn’t paint a nice picture of rural America, it doesn’t spare the worst of New York, either.

I will say that some of the characters are not really explained too well; you can't really figure out who they are and why they do the things that they do. this is especially true of Wilkerson, but the pace is fast and furious and Harrison tells a good story.