tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36607960215251145392024-03-14T02:41:16.123-07:00Tome's DevoteePaula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.comBlogger337125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-32446092222904248202015-11-10T21:35:00.001-08:002015-11-10T21:35:44.176-08:00Pop Goes The Weasel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This book has your eyes popping from the very first pages! Really enjoyed this thriller!<br />
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Helen Grace is a detective with baggage. She has a dark side and some secrets. Now she has some grisly killings to figure out. Men are turning up murdered and gruesomely mutilated after meeting with a prostitute on a viscous killing streak. Tensions are running high in the quest to catch this killer before more men turn up dead.<br />
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Her relationship with her superior Cheri Harwood and her fellow detective Charlie Brooks is strained to say the least. Harwood is looking to add a star to her name with the solving of this case and she allows scrubby reporter Emilia Garanita access to the case that sets Helen off. Charlie's return after a long absence due to injuries brought about in the previous book has both she and Helen walking a tight rope.<br />
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The twists and turns lend a great suspenseful tempo to the book. I enjoyed the writing and the mystery was aces. Great read, I highly recommend!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">3 1/2 Cannolis</span></b>Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-10337768489089810602015-10-18T20:18:00.001-07:002015-10-18T20:27:30.527-07:00The Murderer's Daughter<br />
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by Jonathan Kellerman<br />
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Grace pulled me into her gripping story from the very start!<br />
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Grace Blades has been dealt a very raw deal from the beginning of her life. Born to the ultimate in stereotypical parents, trailer trash addicts, she has no real joy to speak of. Her time is passed trying to absorb as much knowledge as possible. You see, Grace is not just a little smart, this girl is HIGHLY intelligent. Sadly at the tender age of five she witnesses her mother kill her father then herself and becomes part of the system.<br />
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She manages to land in a foster home of a well off widower whose brother in law is a psychologist. He feeds Grace's hunger for knowledge and she continues to grow intelligence wise in leaps and bounds. When a tragedy takes place in the home after three odd children come into it, she is adopted by him and his wife.<br />
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Grace is nurtured and goes to all the best schools and colleges. She becomes a very successful psychologist herself. There's one thing, Grace has a penchant for sex with strangers and the adrenaline rush she gets from it. What ensues brings her past speeding to the present and puts her in grave danger.<br />
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I highly recommend this book. It's the first time I have read Kellerman and I absolutely enjoyed his writing style and the story itself!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">4 cannolis</span>Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-62811932767524592412015-09-07T19:57:00.000-07:002015-09-07T19:57:13.727-07:00Name Of The Devil<br />
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This book had me sitting up straight within the first two pages! That is one awesome way to start a book!<br />
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Jessica Blackwood must find a killer who has left a trail of bodies from West Virginia clear across to Mexico. A church along with several of it's parishioners has exploded into nothingness, the town's sheriff acting as if possessed by some evil force seems to be the culprit. She has to employ some of her magician background to get to the bottom of this carnage that has ties all the way to the Vatican.<br />
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Along the way she has some unwanted (maybe) help from her obsessive stalker former boyfriend Damien who seemingly is in the right place at the right time to quietly and unseen save her hide.<br />
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A fast paced thriller with some really great characters. I like Jessica, she's a strong smart protagonist. I like how Mayne writes, my only complaint was the fizzle of bickering between Jessica and Vonda Mitchum, the lead investigator on the case. I'd have like to see that come to a conclusion. Not a bad thriller and if you didn't read the first in the series, it doesn't hurt in any way.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">3 1/2 cannolis</span></b>Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-60779573782215900602015-08-12T12:01:00.000-07:002015-08-14T10:57:28.082-07:00Route 66 To The Milky Way<br />
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by Janet Rendall<br />
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What a good read this was. Science fiction isn't my usual genre and I found this interesting and a breeze to read. What a pleasant surprise.<br />
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Frank Ryder is an FBI agent who is on the case of alien tracking. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, two people's bodies have gone missing, a nurse named Polly Johnson, and an older gentleman with a fatal brain injury. The plant like aliens, May and Homer crashed during the bombing and have a small window of time to inhabit a body after it dies, before they die themselves. The only clue May has to return home is is the number 66.<br />
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The couple spend years on the mother road learning as much as they can about humans, trying to assimilate all the while desperate to go home. May reads Alice In Wonderland and takes literally the idea of falling down the rabbit hole to another dimension and thinks eating her way through will get them there. Homer on the other hand buys a Oldsmobile Rocket 88 to get them back.<br />
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As they continue on this journey Homer is becoming sicker and sicker. Frank is hot on their trail and after the Roswell disaster, he is not going to let them get away. Frank finds himself attracted to May/Polly and is having a tough time keeping the two separated. The story is circulated by the FBI that she's a Russian spy and the brand new CIA is buying it so she is in danger. The question is can Frank save her before either agency gets their hands on her?<br />
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I really enjoyed this story. What a nice writing style Janet has. Smooth and easy, you just turn the pages effortlessly. A wonderful surprise was finding my hometown of Redlands featured in it! If you find Route 66 intriguing, well this is just a great plus. Pick this book up and get ready for a ride!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">4 cannolis</span></b>Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-78640181372058341822015-08-06T22:36:00.002-07:002015-08-06T22:36:50.191-07:00Broken Promise<br />
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This is a pretty good thriller. Fast paced, nice balance of likable to hated characters. Starts one two three and gets you.<br />
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David Harwood is a widower with a young son. He works at the Boston Globe, but finds his time is not being spent with his son so he decides to pack it in and go back home. Literally home, to his mother and father's house. He takes a job with the local paper only to have it fold the exact day he starts.Talk about bad luck.<br />
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His mother asks him to bring his cousin Marla some food she prepared. He gets quite the surprise when he finds his cousin caring for a baby that isn't hers. What a can of worms he just stumbled upon. Marla tells him an angel has given him to her, and when he calls his mother he finds out this isn't the first time she's gotten hold of a baby.<br />
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Other things are happening around town too. Squirrels are being strung up and hung on a fence, the college campus is trying to deal with a so far unsuccessful rapist, and the local amusement park has a cryptic message left on its ferris wheel.<br />
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The baby's mother has been brutally murdered and David is going to use his skills as a reporter to try and get to the bottom of it. Will it lead back to his cousin? Has something more sinister gone down here? Only time will tell if any of the strange goings on are connected and if David will survive it himself.<br />
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The only complaint I have was how many stories were going on. I don't want to give too much away, but we are obviously going to get another book. Still worth the read, I like Mr. Barclay's writing style.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">3 1/2 cannolis</span></b>Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-89829397948845735542015-07-24T15:12:00.003-07:002015-07-24T15:12:59.197-07:00Crazy Mountain Kiss<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a great read for those who love thrillers. I've not read this series before, and you don't need to for following. I find that a great plus when a series can function as stand alones as well.<br />
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When a cabin renter climbs to the roof to unclog a chimney, he finds a Santa's hat blocking it, thinking just removing it and some sticks stuffed in by a crow will solve the blockage issue. Never did he expect to find the body of missing teen rodeo star Cinderella Huntington's eyeless face staring up at him.<br />
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Sheriff Martha Ettinger and her crew arrive to remove the body and start an investigation into what happened to this much loved local celebrity. P.I. Sean Stranahan is hired by Cindy's mother Etta, who is quite the celebrity herself. Her husband and Cindy's step father, Jasper Fey is the epitome of cowboy, serving as a consultant to movies is hotheaded and a tough cookie. Cindy went missing along with sometime ranch hand and teen friend Landon Anker. Is he a suspect or victim of foul play? What starts to be uncovered is quite the crazy web of coincidence and town connections.<br />
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Was Cindy murdered? Was this just a horrid accident? Martha and Sean plow through leads that take them on an expedition of quirky characters. Not always a gasp filled adventure, there were times that I held my breath. My only gag issue was with Martha and the ME. Since she seems to enjoy romantic endeavors with co-workers, the ME seemed to think she might be up to a romp. That's all I'll say about it other than not necessary. The lead characters don't stir downright love, but it isn't a deterrent. I like Mr. McCafferty's writing style and recommend this book.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">3 1/2 cannolis</span></b>Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-24949155027977943132015-07-08T12:56:00.000-07:002015-07-08T12:56:43.453-07:00Somebody I Used To Know<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was a decent thriller for me. Right out of the gate it grabs you, which is a major plus. I love when the game is on right from the get go!<br />
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Nick Hansen lives a quiet life. He's a social worker, a rescuer of an aged dog, divorced, and trying to be a good step-dad to his ex's son Andrew. While at the grocery store, he's knocked for a major loop when he sees a young girl who is the spitting image of his college girlfriend who died in a campus fire that claimed her and three other young lives.<br />
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When he attempts to speak to her and ask if she is related to the family in any way, she bolts like he's some crazed killer. Well, the next morning the police show up at his door thinking he may just be that! It seems this young girl was murdered in her motel room and of all the wacky coincidences, his name and number was in her possession.<br />
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What ensues is a major hunt by Nick with the help of his friend Laurel. He starts digging into the past, what took place the night of that horrid fire and the days before it. Sometimes the truth is more bizarre then lies and for Nick, it might have been better to just leave well enough alone.<br />
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I enjoyed reading this book. It got a little slow at times, but not enough for me to give up on it. The ties throughout and the mystery right through to the end make for great thriller ingredients. Easy reading thanks to smooth writing, great character description, always a plus for me.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">3 1/2 cannolis</span></b>Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-80336773542370834052015-06-29T22:20:00.000-07:002015-06-29T22:20:15.402-07:00The Truth and Other Lies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You know what I love? I love a book that makes me gasp! This book made me gasp out loud, and more than once. If you can do that for me when I'm reading, then I'm one happy girl.<br />
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Henry Hayden seems like quite the unremarkable person when you first meet him. Oh, rest assured, there's a lot more to this man than meets the eye. Henry met fell in sort of love with and married Martha. Martha is quite shy, quiet, almost invisible. She's also the reason he's such a successful author. Henry is a ladies man, and Martha stays in the shadows just looking the other way. That is until she gets a look at his editor.<br />
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His life starts crumbling when his editor/lover tells him she's pregnant. How in the world is he going to take care of this mess? Well, Henry is quite resourceful to say the least. Unfortunately he makes a life changing error that has the police breathing down his neck, and a past that is trying to break through to the present.<br />
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<br />Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-74248069099588956872015-06-23T13:44:00.000-07:002015-06-23T13:44:35.801-07:00The Fixer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Rick Hoffman used to have it all, gorgeous girlfriend, fantastic job as a reporter, living a cushy envious life. Suddenly he loses </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">everything</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> and has to move back home in his empty </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">dilapidated old home of his youth.</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Realizing that the house is a mess and in need of major reno-ing, his neighbor who is also a contractor offers to take on the job. With his father in a home due to a stroke, Rick finds the house just a burden, he agrees and a discovery is made inside the walls, a few million dollars that could put Rick and his sister if he's inclined to share, on easy street.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Where did all this cash come from? What was his father, an attorney, really dealing in, and how can he hide this money not only from the tax-man, but from his neighbor Jeff who just might not be so </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">neighborly anymore. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Suddenly thrust in the middle of a dangerous game of cover up, Rick finds </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">himself</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> having to look if he's being followed. Some very powerful people will go to some severe ends to keep certain secrets just that.</span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On a dark Kentucky night in 1952 exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran crosses into forbidden territory. Everyone knows Hollerans don’t go near Baines, not since Joseph Carl was buried two decades before, but, armed with a silver-handled flashlight, Annie runs through her family’s lavender fields toward the well on the Baines’ place. At the stroke of midnight, she gazes into the water in search of her future. Not finding what she had hoped for, she turns from the well and when the body she sees there in the moonlight is discovered come morning, Annie will have much to explain and a past to account for.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It was 1936, and there were seven Baine boys. That year, Annie’s aunt, Juna Crowley, with her black eyes and her long blond hair, came of age. Before Juna, Joseph Carl had been the best of all the Baine brothers. But then he looked into Juna’s eyes and they made him do things that cost innocent people their lives. Sheriff Irlene Fulkerson saw justice served—or did she?</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As the lavender harvest approaches and she comes of age as Aunt Juna did in her own time, Annie’s dread mounts. Juna will come home now, to finish what she started. If Annie is to save herself, her family, and this small Kentucky town, she must prepare for Juna’s return, and the revelation of what really happened all those years ago.</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a good read. I enjoyed the turns it took, a nice surprise in it, good characters throughout. It took you back and forth to past and present, but it doesn't get choppy or stilted. A nice mystery to keep you wondering.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Annie Holleran has the "know-how" a tingling feeling of what's going to come. Just like her Aunt Juna who's gone</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> away leaving a mess behind.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> She also has her Aunt Juna's black as coal eyes. It makes people scared of her, won't look at her head on. She's 15 1/2 now and it's her ascension, that time all girls look forward to, approaching womanhood and looking down the Fulkerson's well to see the face of their husband to be. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All but Annie, she's feeling dread, the know-how is swelling in her, filling her with unease.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sneaking out at midnight to the neighbors well, all alone so no one knows what she's doing she runs through her families lavender field to the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Baine's</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> property. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Her family doesn't get along with the Baines, the bad blood goes back to her mama and aunt's teen years. She's worried about being on their property but pushes past it and gets to the well. What she see's that dark night sets in motion things she never expected.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Annie is a sweet character. Lori Roy has crafted a great Southern mystery. You can smell the lavender floating in the air! There is one part that actually had me gasp out loud. Love when a book just catches me off guard. I definitely recommend this read.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Two words: The bullet.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s all it takes to shatter her life.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Caroline Cashion is beautiful, intelligent, a professor of French literature. But in a split second, everything she’s known is proved to be a lie.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A single bullet, gracefully tapered at one end, is found lodged at the base of her skull. Caroline is stunned. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no entry wound. No scar. Then, over the course of one awful evening, she learns the truth: that she was adopted when she was three years old, after her real parents were murdered. Caroline was there the night they were attacked. She was wounded too, a gunshot to the neck. Surgeons had stitched up the traumatized little girl, with the bullet still there, nestled deep among vital nerves and blood vessels.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">That was thirty-four years ago.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, Caroline has to find the truth of her past. Why were her parents killed? Why is she still alive? She returns to her hometown where she meets a cop who lets slip that the bullet in her neck is the same bullet that killed her mother. Full-metal jacket, .38 Special. It hit Caroline’s mother and kept going, hurtling through the mother’s chest and into the child hiding behind her.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">She is horrified—and in danger. When a gun is fired it leaves markings on the bullet. Tiny grooves, almost as unique as a fingerprint. The bullet in her neck could finger a murderer. A frantic race is set in motion: Can Caroline unravel the clues to her past, before the killer tracks her down?</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Caroline Cashion is an unassuming professor at Georgetown who adores her job. French Literature is her subject and she loves it and the fact that she gets paid to immerse herself in it. There's nothing better than getting paid for something that doesn't feel like work. She's been having pain in her wrist as of late, her doctor attributing carpal tunnel syndrome, sends her for x rays. The finding destroys everything she thought she was. Buried in her neck kissing her spine is a bullet. How is it possible? Who did this? How did she not know?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> <i>Spanning the better part of three decades, </i></span><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The Winter Family</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> traverses America's harsh, untamed terrain, both serving and opposing the fierce advance of civilization. Among its twisted specimens, the Winter Family includes the psychopathic killer Quentin Ross, the mean and moronic Empire brothers, the impassive ex-slave Fred Johnson, and the dangerous child prodigy Lukas Shakespeare But at the malevolent center of this ultraviolent storm is their cold, hardened leader, Augustus Winter—a man with an almost pathological resistance to the rules of society and a preternatural gift for butchery. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> From their service as political thugs in a brutal Chicago election to their work as bounty hunters in the deserts of Arizona, there's a hypnotic logic to Winter's grim borderland morality that plays out, time and again, in ruthless carnage.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> With its haunting, hard-edged style, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The Winter Family</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> is a feverishly paced meditation on human nature and the dark contradictions of progress.</span></i><br><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">*****</span></font><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is the latest book in the loved Longmire series by Craig Johnson. Have you started the series on Netflix? Which do you like better, reading a series first, or watching then checking the book out? The latest sounds like a ride of <b>KING</b> size proportions! </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When the largest, most complete <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">T. rex</i> skeleton ever found turns up—along with a dead rancher—in Absaroka County, Wyoming, Sherriff Walt Longmire must solve a sixty-six million year-old cold case that’s heating up fast. <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DRY BONES</b> (Viking; $27.95; ISBN: 9780525426936; On-sale: May 12, 2015), by <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New York Times</i>bestselling author Craig Johnson, is the 13th in the mystery series which inspired the hit TV show <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Longmire</i>, soon to be on Netflix for its upcoming fourth season.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Walt and Undersheriff Victoria Morretti don’t know what to make of it when they find Danny Lone Elk, a Cheyenne rancher, dead and floating in a turtle pond—until they learn that “Jen”, a <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">T. rex</i> skeleton named for the paleontologist who discovered her, has been unearthed on his land. Walt soon finds himself in the middle of an ownership dispute between the deceased man’s family, a local natural history museum, and the Cheyenne tribe, as well as a political charade involving Wyoming’s ambitious acting Deputy U.S. Attorney.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With the case growing more complex by the day, Walt is blindsided by a shocking tragedy that leaves his daughter heartbroken. Meanwhile, residents of Absaroka County are determined to “save Jen” from those who would claim her for the federal government and remove the dinosaur from her Wyoming home. It's up to Sheriff Longmire to get the bottom of Danny Lone Elk’s death, determine where rightful ownership lies, and, hopefully, win the dinosaur for Wyoming. Toxic Cheyenne artifacts, illegal prescription drugs, missing film footage and missing persons all come into play as Walt and Vic try their best to “save Jen.”</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">About the Author:</span></u></b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Craig Johnson</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> is the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New York Times</i> bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series. Johnson’s series is the basis for <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Longmire</i>, the hit TV original drama that has been picked up by Netflix for its fourth season. He is the recipient of the Wyoming Historical Award for fiction, the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for fiction, the Rocky Award from Left Coast Crime, the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nouvel Observateur Prix du Roman Noir</i>, and the<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prix 813</i>. His novella, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Spirit of Steamboat</i>, was selected by the Wyoming Library Association as the One-Book-Wyoming, the inaugural state read. Find Craig’s events at </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.craigallenjohnson.com/" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">www.craigallenjohnson.com</span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (Tour of Duty tab). He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five (still).</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Longmire</span></i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> was the highest-rated scripted program in A&E’s history and stars Robert Taylor (<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Matrix</i>, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vertical Limit</i>) as Sheriff Walt Longmire, Lou Diamond Phillips (<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">La Bamba</i>, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Young Guns</i>) as Henry Standing Bear and Katee Sackhoff (<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Battlestar Galactica</i>, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">24</i>, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Riddick</i>) as Victoria Moretti. <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Longmire</i> was developed by Shephard/Robin Productions for Warner Horizon. In fall 2015, all 10 new episodes of <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Longmire</i> Season 4 will be available to stream on Netflix.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<i>Amazon Blurb - </i><i><br /></i><i>It’s June, the roses are in bloom, and the small English village of Finch may be in big trouble. Two cottages are for sale, but something—or someone—is driving buyers away. Has a developer targeted Finch? Will property values skyrocket? Will a wave of wealthy weekenders drive out the longtime locals?</i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lori Shepherd has been very busy. Her new baby girl, young twin boys, her father in law is getting married and his snotty wicked sisters are coming from America. Add empty cottages in her beloved town to her list of worries and she starts digging into the mystery as to why no one wants to move to her sweet Finch. A bit of snooping uncovers an ancient feud between Finch and the neighboring town of Tillcoate that all have been privy to but her. In the middle of this mix is the mysterious Arthur Hargreaves Lord of Hillfont Abbey who just may have a hand in keeping buyers away. Lori is on the case with some solid adivice from the beyond in her departed Aunt Dimity.</span></div>
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Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-63734437297466528462015-04-12T13:07:00.001-07:002015-04-12T13:07:44.702-07:00Luckiest Girl Alive<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Why? Who is Ani Fanelli and what has made her this way? Born TifAni FaNelli in a Philly suburb to a dad who she has no interaction with and a mother who is obsessed with labels, luxury cars and dreams of living in the high falootin Main Line. A silly indescretion as a 14 year old kid gets her taken out of her Catholic school and put into this "hoity toity" private school where she'll be hob knobbing with all the goober smoochers and where her life takes a drastic turn that will alter her forever.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wow, this book takes you on a ride! It was absolutely exhausting trying to keep up with Ani. Every single aspect of her life was so planned I don't know how she could keep up with it. You feel for her and what she went through as a kid. You struggle with not hating her as an adult, she is razor sharp and will slice right through you, yet she is quite vulnerable under that sculpted exterior. Jessica has crafted quite the tale, her writing keeps you going, never getting tedious. You keep waiting for what's coming anticipating it with each page turned, get ready friends, climb aboard and enjoy the thrill that is the Luckiest Girl Alive.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls herself Julie, says she’s from California, and slips back to a rented room at night. Regularly, furtively, she checks the hometown paper on the Internet. Home is Garland, Tennessee, and there, two young men have just been paroled. One, she married; the other, she’s in love with. Both were jailed for a crime that Grace herself planned in exacting detail. The heist went bad—but not before she was on a plane to Prague with a stolen canvas rolled in her bag. And so, in Paris, begins a cat-and-mouse waiting game as Grace’s web of deception and lies unravels—and she becomes another young woman entirely.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Grace<i> </i>is a young girl looking for a place to feel wanted. Riley and his family did that perfectly for her. She was the daughter Doctor and Mrs. Graham never had. She and Riley were inseparable, his mom even set up a room for her. Part of a threesome that includes Riley's best buddy Alls, they all hangout together growing up in this southern town. The two's relationship blossoms into a romance at a relatively young age, but the dynamic of the threesome doesn't change. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Told all through Grace's voice, we go on a trip through her life. We travel back and forth from the past to the present. From a young little girl who feels unwanted by her mother and then left out when twin brothers are born, to a teen getting ready to head off to college. There's one thing, Grace is a liar who also has a penchant for stealing. And so begins the plan to rob the town's historic museum. </span></div>
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I liked this book. I never really warmed up to neither Grace nor Riley, so I can see the comparison to Gone Girl, though I did find myself hurting for her more than once. Ms.Scherm has a great writing style. Going from the past to the present seamlessly it wasn't at all stilted. The only negative is that I didn't find it to be a real thriller in the sense of heart pounding action. Other than that, I recommend this book for a good read.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Dana Nolan was a promising young TV
reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of
victims. Nearly a year has passed since surviving her ordeal, but the physical,
emotional,and psychological scars run deep. Struggling with the torment of
post-traumatic stress syndrome, plagued by flashbacks and nightmares as dark as
the heart of a killer, Dana returns to her hometown in an attempt to begin to
put her life back together. But home doesn’t provide the comfort she expects.<br />
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and media interest in the unsolved case of her childhood best friend, Casey
Grant, who disappeared without a trace the summer after their graduation from
high school. Terrified of truths long-buried, Dana reluctantly begins to look
back at her past. Viewed through the dark filter of PTSD, old friends and loved
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be defined by the traumas of her past and struggling against excruciating odds,
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Dana Nolan is a fighter. She never
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pretty popular blond girl who dated the high school football player, she was on
her way to success. A new reporter just getting started, when she's
kidnapped by a sick killer who tortures and rapes her before trying to finish
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">After a year of convalescing and therapy she is headed back to her
childhood home. Certainly not the happy go lucky gal any longer, she
categorizes herself as "before Dana" and "after Dana".
She is struggling with PTSD, as well as a brain injury which results in
her having no memory of the incident let alone if she shut the water or how to
even navigate the home she grew up in. Family and friends are strangers
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friend from childhood, Casey Grant's disappearance. As she tries to recall what
happened that last day the two were together, disturbing pieces start coming
back. Dana is finding she feels she can't trust anyone. Solving
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reading Tami, and I loved it. I was trying to figure it out all the way
to the end. If I have but one critique, it was Detective Hardy. I know he
was supposed to be rough and gruff, but I found him a bit to hard on Dana
knowing full well the atrocities she endured. Read this book people if
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Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-11584746373025348402015-01-06T14:25:00.001-08:002015-01-06T14:25:54.989-08:00The Killer Next Door<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Everyone who lives at 23 Beulah Grove has a secret. If they didn’t, they
wouldn’t be renting rooms in a dodgy old building for cash—no credit check, no
lease. It’s the kind of place you end up when you you’ve run out of other
options. The six residents mostly keep to themselves, but one unbearably
hot summer night, a terrible accident pushes them into an uneasy alliance.
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mobster whose money she has stolen quite accidentally, after witnessing
henchmen delivering a deadly beatdown. Hopping from place to place Lisa
has been on the run from Tony Stott, barely one step ahead of him. Changing her
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detail was a bit much, and I wished for more focus on the main storyline itself
and not on the side stories. This had me pushing through at times,
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rory Langtry is a gorgoeus successful business woman. She founded her own beauty biz and has built it from the ground up. All this through the sorrow and tradgedy of her sister Anya's murder and her fiancé Junior Lara being in a coma for the past five years. A coma brought on by the supposed self inflicted gunshot AFTER allegedly killing Anya in his apartment. </span></div>
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Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-78429258405712642812014-07-13T18:06:00.001-07:002014-07-13T18:06:41.543-07:00The Butcher<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><i>A rash of grisly serial murders plagued Seattle until the infamous “Beacon Hill Butcher” was finally hunted down and killed by police chief Edward Shank in 1985. Now, some thirty years later, Shank, retired and widowed, is giving up his large rambling Victorian house to his grandson Matt, whom he helped raise.<br /><br />Settling back into his childhood home and doing some renovations in the backyard to make the house feel like his own, Matt, a young up-and-coming chef and restaurateur, stumbles upon a locked crate he’s never seen before. Curious, he picks the padlock and makes a discovery so gruesome it will forever haunt him… Faced with this deep dark family secret, Matt must decide whether to keep what he knows buried in the past, go to the police, or take matters into his own hands.<br /><br />Meanwhile Matt’s girlfriend, Sam, has always suspected that her mother was murdered by the Beacon Hill Butcher—two years after the supposed Butcher was gunned down. As she pursues leads that will prove her right, Sam heads right into the path of Matt’s terrible secret.<br /><br />A thriller with taut, fast-paced suspense, and twists around every corner, The Butcher will keep you guessing until the bitter, bloody end.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Edward Shank is quite the imposing figure even at 80 years old. Respectfully if not fondly called the Chief by all inclucing his grandson Matt, he is moving into a senior citizen community after recently becoming a widower, and leaving his beautiful large old home to Matt. The Chief shot to fame, no pun intendended, by shooting a serial killer that had been stalking women in the Seattle area. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Matt is on his way to success. He's the owner of a restaurant and food truck that has attracted the attention of reality tv, best friends with a former quaterback for the Seattle Seahawks and a gorgeous girlfriend who is an author of real crime stories. He's got the world at his feet. His only beef, his girl Sam wants to move in after being together for three years, and Matt really doens't want any part of it. Oh, and her mother was killed when she was a baby and Sam thinks the Butcher did it. There's only one problem, her mother was murdered AFTER his grandfather shot the Butcher.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sam belongs to a murder buff website and is contacted by someone who claims to know the real Butcher's idenity. Struggling with her relationship with Matt as well as trying not to offend the Chief with this pursuit of hers, Sam sets up a meeting. She finds out the woman, Bonnie Tidwell, was a friend of her mother's and actually cared for Sam when she was a baby. Something spooks Bonnie and she doesn't tell Sam the identity, and then turns up dead, and she isn't alone. Is there a copycat killer out there, or was the Butcher really never caught?</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I liked this book. It was fast paced, a good page turner. Decent characters, great interaction with them. You know what the deal is almost out of the gate, but you don't know the outcome till the end, and that doesn't kill the story at all. This is my second Hillier read</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> and it was really good. Give it a go :)</span></div>
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Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-56944810070912730292014-06-20T12:20:00.004-07:002014-06-20T12:23:43.380-07:00The Red Hot Fix<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<i>What do you say, Morton Grant, Chief of Detectives? You got what it takes to find me? Show me a move. . . . Or I’ll have to show you one of mine.</i><br>
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<i>A little more than a year after the Fixer killings, Detective Mort Grant of the Seattle PD once again has his hands full. In the last four months, seven men have been murdered in seedy pay-by-the-hour motels: first strangled, then tied with rope and set on a bed of crushed mothballs, with a red lipstick kiss planted on their foreheads. Speculation abounds that the killer is a prostitute who’s turning her tricks into dead men. The press has taken to calling her “Trixie.”</i><br>
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<i>As Mort follows scant leads in the case, he can’t help but feel continued guilt over his involvement with the Fixer. Though the public holds her up as a folk hero, a vigilante who seeks justice when the system fails, Mort cannot shake the fact that serious crimes have been committed. And though legend says she has vanished, Mort knows exactly where the Fixer is—and he’s conspiring to keep her hidden.</i><br>
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<i>As Trixie strikes again, Mort suddenly finds himself and his family in the crosshairs. Because thesenew murders are not random, and their perpetrator is hell-bent on luring Mort into a sick and twisted game. If he’s not careful, he’s going to need Fixing.</i><br>
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Mort Grant is Chief of Detectives in Seattle. He's got a bit of a problem, johns are turning up dead in motel rooms around the city. The killer has been dubbed "Trixie". In the midst of this mess he struggles with the guilt of his involvement with the Fixer, a vigilante killer that many view as a hero.<br>
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As he and his detectives start getting close to piecing this puzzle together one of Seattle's most wealthy and prominent businessmen, Rhinehart Vogel turns up dead in what seems to be another Trixie hit. Is he really another victim of Trixie? Or a copycat? The path Mort takes drags his son into the fray in a way he never imagined.<br>
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This book was ok. You really don't need to read the first to follow along with this one. I found it a bit all over. You had the Fixer doing her thing, you had Trixie, and you had the Vogel intrigue with his basketball team, his star player and his business issues.<br>
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I didn't find myself turning pages in anticipation of what happens next. I found Trixie to be meh in the killer category. Trying to shoot for Gretchen Lowell of Chelsea Cain's series but not quite cutting it. I couldn't form a bond with any of the characters in the book, and the most interesting part of the book for me came between Vogel and his rookie player Barry Gardner in the restaurant.<br>
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For me it wasn't the best thriller, but I would still recommend it as a decent read.<br>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">3 Cannolis</span></b>Paula Calvanicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071152704222978446noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660796021525114539.post-82027243361223912782014-05-31T15:45:00.002-07:002014-05-31T15:49:27.973-07:00Room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.<br><br>Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.<br><br>Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, ROOM is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.</i></span></div>
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Jack is five. Yesterday he was four, but today he's five. He lives in a room 11x11 with his Ma who was kidnapped seven years ago at 19 by Old Nick and repeatedly raped by him. I guess you can say Jack is THE only bright spot in this torturous situation. Jack is her sanity, her security blanket, her sunshine. For Jack Room is his whole world. No windows, but for a skylight on the roof, he has no concept of the outside world at all. Ma has told him that the little of it she allows him to see on tv is all fake.</div>
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I had a rough time with this book. Not just the subject matter but the verbiage. Narrated completely by Jack who's speech pattern really got annoying after awhile. I would have liked to have it go back and forth between him and his mother just for a break. Dealing with being at the absolute mercy of her captor was excruciating. If he was angry at her he shut their electricity as punishment, she had to worry that he might not come back with food and supplies for them. </div>
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This isn't an easy read by a long shot, it made me feel queasy and I couldn't stop thinking about Jaycee Dugard and the Ohio girls. If you can get past the subject matter and baby banter give it a go.</div>
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