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Book Review: “Shadows Reel” by C.J. Box
Genre: Thriller By my count……”Shadows Reel” is book #22 in the Joe Pickett series. Yikes! 🙂 In a few days it will be Thanksgiving and the three, now grown, Pickett girls will be home to celebrate. Lucy, the youngest, is now a Sophomore at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. She will also be bringing…
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Book Review: “Midnight Sun” by Jo Nesbo
Genre: Thriller “How are we to start this story?” Certainly not at the beginning since “Ulf” has just arrived, by bus, on the Finnmark peninsula in far northern Norway. He is coming from the south…..Oslo, where he stole money from the biggest baddest drug dealer (who he was working for) in Oslo….the Fisherman. Now Ulf…
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Book Review: “Code Red” by Vince Flynn / Kyle Mills
Genre: Thriller This is an ARC sent to Mitch Rapp Ambassadors. It will be in “stores” Sept 12, 2023. To preorder it….click this link. 🙂 A shipment from Syria of a super addictive drug, Captagon, is now in port in Salerno, Italy. If everything goes according to plan, this will be the first shipment of…
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Book Review: “End Game” by David Baldacci
Genre: Thriller After two “successful” assignments, one in London and the other in Iraq, Will Robie and Jessica Reel are teamed up for the most important assignment of their lives……. Blue Man went on vacation to his hometown in eastern Colorado for some rest, releaxation, and fishing (and also to catch up with old flame,…
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Short Story Summary: “The Intern: An Orphan X Short Story”
Lucas is a reporter for an online “news” organization, and Aurora is an unpaid intern for the same organization. Together they have been watching a destroyed church thinking that they might meet the legendary Nowhere Man who is said to watch over the place. Lucas is obsessed with the Nowhere Man. Aurora….not so much. After…
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Short Story Summary: “Fish Files” by John Grisham
Several years ago, Clanton, Mississippi lawyer, Mack Stafford (Law Offices of Jacob McKinley Stafford, LLC) started a class action suit against a chainsaw company, Tinzo, for defects that maimed four clients. Mack promised his clients a large payout…..then for three years…..nothing happened. A phone call with a lawyer from New York City ended with the…
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Short Story Summary: “The Hunt for Dmitri”
1983 Dmitri Garnitsky was a dissident in Moscow marked for death. One day, he was found by assassin Oleg Olenkov and his hired “wet” man assassin, Carnivore. In the standoff that followed, Dmitri was saved by the Carinvore, escaped Russia and changed his life. Now Liz Sansborough, Ph.D. is attending a faculty meeting / party…
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Short Story Summary: “Heirloom” by Joseph Finder
Long time residents, Walter and Ruth, were invited to dinner by their new neighbors, Hutch and Morgan. The house Hutch and Morgan moved into is a beatiful Cape Cod with land. And they purchased it at a reasonable price. During dinner, Walter, started giving the new neighbors a history lesson on the old house, the…
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Book Review: “The Switch” by Joseph Finder
Genre: Thriller Michael Tanner, owner of Tanner Roast, was in LA to try to land a deal with a famous Food Network star (and Iron Chef) to provide premium coffee for his 6 restaurants. Things did not go as well as he hoped. At LAX, Michael found that his normal TSA Pass through the lines…
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Book Review: “Crucible of Gold” by Naomi Novik
Genre: Fantasy “Crucible of Gold” is book #7 of 9 in the Temeraire series. Will Laurence and Temeraire have been in Australia for a while now and are adjusting to life there as civilians (remember that Laurence was found guilty of treason, his commission in the military revoked, and they were exiled to Australia as…
NOW READING: “The Exchange” by John Grisham
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