I have a trip across the pond coming, and I will need a number of books to read at night and in the middle of the night. My usual method is to go to the paperback mysteries in the public library and look for silly books. You know, the kind where the cover is hot pink, bright yellow or turquoise and the detective owns a Chihuahua.

The deal is, I don't find these books by author or title. I scan the shelves looking for the bright covers.

Such books are diverting without being upsetting. This will be a two-week trip, so I figure I need ten books.

My sister-in-law has shown me her Kindle, and it seemed comfortable to use and would weigh less than the ten books. But when I tried to find mysteries to download, all I could find was grim bestsellers that cost $8.99 each.

Does anybody know how I can use a Kindle to read the kind of books I want?