Dead Authors

I've just finished another book by a dead author. It wasn't intentional and I didn't realize that this was the case but I found myself puzzling over the back cover of The Glass of Time by Michael Cox and trying to figure out if the date shown on the back was of the book's completion date or...no, it couldn't be the year of his death, or could it? Then I turned around and read, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and found myself facing a similar truth...these guys were dead!

At different points while reading the book I would flip to the back flap with information about this author that I've never read before and thought, is this seriously telling me that he received death threats? That's when I realized that this author was deceased as well. What is up with that? While I really liked the Glass of Time, I did not enjoy the second book, The Meaning of Night: A Confession. It just didn't capture my interest the way the first one did. With Stieg's book, I read it over the weekend but am now on the waiting list and impatiently waiting for the second and third book from the library but I wanted to read at least the first one before I go to see the Swedish film next week. It's supposed to be awesome and I can't wait!