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Friday, August 09, 2024

Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger

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As I mentioned in the previous post, I read Iron Lake in 2017 and had every intention of continuing this series by William Kent Kreuger--bu...
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Wednesday, August 07, 2024

Boundary Waters and Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger

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In 2017, I read Iron Lake by William Kent Kreuger.  At the time, I planned to continue the series, but never got around to it. When I saw S...
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Monday, June 17, 2024

Guide Me Home by Attica Locke

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Guide Me Home is the third and final installment of Attica Locke's Highway 59 series featuring Darren Matthews.  I'm sorry to see th...
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Saturday, June 15, 2024

Lady Anne and the Haunted Schoolgirl by Victoria Hamilton and Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

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I've enjoyed the previous books in this series, but something changed in the way Anne and Tony react that bothers me.  I liked the attra...
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Thursday, June 13, 2024

Taking London by Martin Dugard and a short list of WWII nonfiction

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Taking London by Martin Dugard is a bit misleading in both the title and the cover.  The author does spend some time on Churchill and Chamb...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson and Sleeping Soldiers by Jack Gatland

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  It has been such a long time since I read a Jackson Brodie book!  I know now that I missed #5 and will have to back up and get it at some ...
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Thursday, June 06, 2024

Her Deadly Game by Robert Dugoni

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  Book 1 of Robert Dugoni's Keera Duggan new legal thriller series follows the arrest of a millionaire for the murder of his wheelchair-...
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Monday, June 03, 2024

The Elias Network by Simon Gervais; The Summoner Trilogy by Taran Matharu

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The Elias Network by Simon Gervais is the first in a new series featuring Caspian Anderson, a translator at the United Nations; except that...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2024

The Butcher's Boy by Peter Hawes, Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosely, Pitch Dark by Paul Doiron

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  The Butcher's Boy by Peter Hawes wasn't what I was looking for. I wanted The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry , but I wasn...
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Monday, May 27, 2024

At the River by Kendra Elliot, Cover Fire and Fire and Ice by Dustin Stevens, and A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey.

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 I haven't been reviewing, but I've been reading a lot.  Now, it is time to cut down on the gardening, and start some reviewing.  (T...
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May Garden

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 All I've been doing this month is reading and gardening.  Not keeping up with much else.  I'm taking a day off of working in the ga...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Deep Beneath Us by Catriona McPherson

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  Deep Beneath Us is the sixth book I've read by Catriona McPherson, all but one of which I gave 4/5 stars.  McPherson excels at psycho...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2024

Long Time Gone by Charlie Donlea

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Years ago, I read The Girl Who Was Taken by Charlie Donlea, and was intrigued by the character Dr. Livia Cutty, who was at that time a fell...
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Friday, May 03, 2024

The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig

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 I first saw The Whistling Season on Jane's blog and ordered it at once. Jane's review appealed to the same things I look for in l...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Fixit by Joe Ide

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  Those who follow Joe Ide's IQ series will look forward to Fixit , but the book does have an end-of-the-road vibe.   Isaiah Quintabe i...
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Monday, April 29, 2024

Some Thoughts About Nonfiction and The Cure for Women by Lydia Reeder

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 Whenever I go on a mystery/thriller spree, I remember my father encouraging me to broaden my habits--to the point of examining the books I ...
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