Mom - Book 7 - The Overlook by Michael Connelly

Murder mystery set in LA after 9/11. It shows how law enforcement agencies can be so focused on terrorism that they forget to look at the crime.

Easy read.

Mom - Book 6 - The Painted House by John Grisham

Unusal for a Grisham this book is not set in a courtroom. It tells the story of a family who run a cotton farm in the late 50s and the changing attitudes to farming in rural US.

Good read!

Mom - Book 5 - The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Set in the early 1960s the story is told by Aibileen, a black maid who has spent her working life holding back the agonies of raising and loving the white children who grow up to perpetuate the racial divide; Minnie, a black maid who finds amazing resources to deal with her own servitude; and Skeeter, the white woman who learns the aweful truth of the racialized South from the women she writes about.

Fantastic book about courage and a very unlikely set of friendships.