What I'm reading right now is Michael Connelly's Angels Flight.

Finished Nickel and Dimed, which was wonderful: the author's experience in the land of low-wage income-earners is funny and harrowing, and moreover you get footnotes like the one below.

⁶ I thank Sona Pai, an Indian American graduate student in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon, for giving me a glimpse into the Indian American motel-operating community and the lives of immigrant brides.

N&D'd footnote, page 161.

Angel word: Adjutant (p. 1), AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems, I think -- see here) (p. 42).