My First Trip to a Bookstore in a Pandemic

I was excited to find out last week that a Barnes and Noble Bookstore in my neighborhood has reopened.  It's been closed since March 13.  I have missed having a physical book in my hands but was only able to find one book that I was interested in to buy. They are no longer selling magazines and the books on the shelves are old.  Most of the mystery and historical fiction on the shelves I had already read.  This location should do more advertising that it is open.  I was one of four customers in a store that is usually packed at all times.

I bought The Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee.  It takes place in Calcutta in 1919 and is advertised as a whodunit. The book won the CWA award for best historical fiction in 2017. It is Mukherjee's first novel and the first book in a series featuring Sam Wyndham, a former Scotland Yard detective, as the sleuth. He has already published three additional books in the series: Death in the East, A Necessary Evil, and Smoke and Ashes.