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Blue Lightning Anne Cleeves

Murder at birding institute.  Head scientist (beautiful woman).  Was it her cuckolded husband?  A jilted grad student? Subplot:  two boys on the island are gay--upsetting family of one.  Solution:  another scientist, years earlier, had worked with the beauty.  an affair, pregnancy, birth--but dad not told.  He marries, has child, child dies.  The couple come to work on the island.  Wife sees the son of the beauty-scientist. Boy looks just like her dead boy.  She figures it out, confronts woman, "accidentally" kills her. Cleeve tells a good story, but this recurring "unlikely female murderer" technique is wearing thin

Roma

Great start. Neighborhood in Mexico City.  Family with servant girl.  Gentle pacing.  Servant girl tells madre of house she is pregnant.  Mother has her own worries--father has gone off to Quebec on a suspicious trip.