"Love & Gelato" & A "Quickie"...Oh My!

The problem with having so many books is deciding which one to read next.  I finished "Love & Gelato" last Friday.  It was an amazing book and very well written.  Jenna Evans Welch has definitely inherited her father's gift of writing!  I'm looking forward to picking up her novel  "Love & Luck," which is due out next month!  But back to "Love & Gelato!"  I liked the majority of the characters with the exception of  (stronzo) Matteo, who actually is the major of the minor characters in this novel.   The tagline of the book is "People come to Italy for love and gelato...but sometimes they discover much more."  It is definitely true.  Love, gelato, truth, rejection....Jenna Evans Welch explores all of that and so much more in her debut novel!  While I wait for her to release "Love & Luck," I'll take a "journey" through James Patterson's thriller, "The Quickie!"  With the perfect marriage and a great job, Lauren Stillman loves her wonderful life...until she sees her husband with another woman.  Devastated and lusting for revenge, Lauren has her own affair.  It's supposed to be a quickie, but Lauren's night of passion takes a shocking turn when she witnesses an unbelievable and deadly crime.  Now her horrifying secret threatens to tear her life apart, pitting her need to uncover the truth against her feat that the truth may be too horrible to bear.  And whichever choice she makes may cost her dearly--her job, her marriage...or even her life.  It's' not normally my cup of tea, but I was given a whole bag of  his books and that one looked promising....We shall see how this "journey" goes!