If a store of any kind has a book section, I generally browse it hoping to find a new author I can’t live without.   Perusing a small book section in a large store this weekend, I noticed several old skeleton keys gracing the book covers.   It seemed like a preponderance of keys for such a small shelf, but as I attested to in a recent post, I love keys, so I’m happy with the cover designs.

77 Shadow Street by Dean Kontz

 Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin

The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards

Altar of Bones by Philip Carter

Perhaps if I dug deeper, I would find that skeleton keys have always been popular on book covers.  But I think I’ll forgo that research and just enjoy the pretty keys and covers.

JT