Weekend Reads: What I am Reading & Watching This Weekend.

Hello Loves!

This weekend both my reading choice and my watching choices take me to Kerala.

I am neck deep in all things Malayalam Crime and I couldn't be happier. My sister and I both reading the same book right now, i.e. we are buddy reading.

A true crime book, a memoir of a Police Surgeon.

Dead Men Tell Tales by Dr. B. Umadathan: This book was on my radar for a while, it sounds amazing. A retired Police Surgeon talks of his glorious career and the many interesting cases he encountered. I am a little bit in at this point, around 33% and I am quite happy with the writing and the cases and his personal reminiscing.

Will talk more about it once I am done. I should hopefully be able to finish it this weekend.

As for what I am watching, I am strictly in the same-ish league.

Forensic: This is streaming on Netflix and is a film full of twists and turns and follows a cop and her team trying to nab a serial killer on the loose. I watched it last night and really, really enjoyed it. It's slick and like I said delivers one twist after another.

Fun! And low-key creepy.

Some of the twists I did see coming but others were a nice surprise.

Nizhal (The Shadow): This is streaming on Prime and I am currently half way through it, so I can't quite say how I feel about it, but so far so good. Slightly creepy and a has a good mystery going on. Fun. I hope the second half of the film lives up to the first half.

I hope you have a good weekend and are safe and sound and well.

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