^ And we’re about to be transported to another historical era with The Strangler Vine. We’ve traveled far and wide in 2017, across both time and place!
Something else I noticed: Out of our last 13 books, 11 were written by men (and only two by men of color, I think). That’s sort of unusual, as we had been pretty good about mixing it up in earlier years. M.J. Carter is a woman though (Miranda) – author of The Strangler Vine. (In fact, all three of our finalists this round were written by women.)