Howard Engel's The Memory Book

I just finished reading The Memory Book yesterday. It is an excellent detective novel, reminded me how much I love mysteries and miss reading them. Going to change that! What is really cool and unique about this book is that the private investigator Benny Cooperman suffers from alexia sin agraphia, meaning that he has lost his ability to read, but he can still write. Engel does a spectacular job of showing us what this is like, and it really hits close to home for him, considering he suffers from this very rare condition himself. I didn't realize this until I had finished the book and read the back inside cover, it really made me appreciate the novel even more. A must read!