It’s 90 degrees out and I’m trying to rouse myself to go back to revising the manuscript I put aside to finish “Probable Claws,” while “Probable Claws” is with my editor. Wouldn’t this be a great day to take a break? Yes, but as David Mehegan explains in this article, that’s not going to happen.

Meanwhile, did anyone out there enjoy Elizabeth George’s new “Careless in Red”? I wish I did, but as you can read here, in my Boston Globe review, I didn’t.