I asked my friend Laurie to recommend some good books that were light reading but well written. Life's pretty busy these days, and I'm not sure how many brain cells I have to spare for recreational literary analysis, but I can't imagine not indulging in a daily chapter or two. She came up with this series as well as another book that will be showing up on here shortly.Charlie--the title character--is a writer by day, thief by night. Well, actually, he says that it's actually safer, for the most part, to break into places by day. So make that a thief by day, writer by night. Charlie is currently hanging out in Amsterdam, trying to fill in some plot holes in his the mystery novel he is currently writing. A stranger approaches him with a strange commission that Charlie can't bring himself not to explore, despite his initial inclination to turn the job down. He winds up getting himself into trouble when he does take on the job, sort of, and the stranger winds up dead (these events are obvious from the beginning, so don't think I'm going to ruin anything here). The Good Thief deals with Charlie's escapades in Amsterdam as he attempts to extricate himself from this predicament and come out ahead.
Charlie is a likable, entertaining character with a great sense of humor and decent turn of phrase. The solution surprised me, and the ending, while predictable, was exactly what it should have been. I just reserved the next book in the series from the library.
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