I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark
At some bookstores at the airport they have a display of books you can buy now and sell back later for half the price at some future airport. It looks like a limited display of exclusively hard cover books, but perhaps the offer applies to any book. Browsing such a bookstore, I found a wire rack hidden at the back with the results of that offer: used books, presumably at something like half price. There were lots of paperbacks there, though mostly the nicer trade editions.
So I picked up I Heard That Song Before, an MHC I hadn’t read before from the used rack and read it at breakneck speed on the plane and in the airport and on the plane back, and then added it to the box of books I keep for Sheila who eBays things. On my next trip, I happened to notice the same book, this time as a new mass market paperback, at the same price. In other words, if you’re buying it to read it, not to own it, just start with the mass market paperback. Same diff.
About the book I have not much to say except that I’m going to have to add MHC to that list of authors I just can’t read anymore, even when I read them really, really fast.