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Book Review: “Prodigal Son” by Gregg Hurwitz
Genre: Thriller “Sixty-five motherfucking dollars.” That is all that stood between Andrew Duran and his home, family, and a, hopefully, decent job. Now he is stuck working the midnight shift in an impound lot in a crappy part of town. Barely making child support for his beloved daughter, Sofia, and his wife Brianna. One night,…
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Book Review: “Storm Watch” by C.J. Box
Genre: Thriller This is book #23 in the Joe Pickett series. And yes….I’ve read them all. 🙂 Joe and Marybeth are now “empty nesters”. Sheridan is 24 and is working with Nate Romanowski at Yarak, Inc., she is close to becoming a master falconer. April is interning for a PI in Montana (Cassie Dewell!), and…
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Book Review: “Troubled Blood” by Robert Galbraith
Genre: Thriller / Mystery “Troubled Blood” is the fifth book in the Cormoran Strike series. 40 years ago Dr. Margot Bamborough left her medical office to meet a friend in a local pub when she disappeared……never to be heard from again. 15 year old, Louise Tucker was out one night when she disappeared….never to be…
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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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