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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…
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Book Review: “Oath of Loyalty” by Vince Flynn / Kyle Mills
Genre: Thriller By my count, “Oath of Loyalty” is book #21 in the Mitch Rapp series. “President Anthony Cook was very different from his predecessors. He was autocratic, ruthless, and had no love for the country he ran or the people who inhabited it. …………His only goals appeared to be basking in the adulation of…
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Book Review: “The Fifth Assassin” by Brad Meltzer
Genre: Thriller This is the second book in the Culper Ring trilogy. Archivist Beecher White is working with his mentor Tot Westman at the National Archives. They are also both members of a secret society started by George Washington…..the Culper Ring was started to save, if needed, the Presidency. Not the President, but, the Presidency.…
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Book Review: “Code of Conduct” by Brad Thor
Genre: Thriller Pierre Damien is rich beyond belief. Life has been good to him, and to keep that streak going, Helena, his current girlfriend, is beautiful, caring, and best of all….she loves him without question. Pierre has work to do coordinating the plan he has conjured up to make the world a better place, a…
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Book Review: “Silver Phoenix” by Cindy Pon
Genre: Fantasy Several Years Ago A baby boy was born prematurely to one of the concubines to the Emperor. The baby is clearly not related to the Emperor and if the baby is seen, he will be executed along with his mother. Luckily, a plan is in place to get the baby out of the…
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Book Review: “The Last Oracle” by James Rollins
Genre: Thriller 398 AD Delphi has been slowly falling into ruin, and Pythia, the last oracle, is perfectly willing to let it fade away. A young girl has entered her life, a special young girl with gifts Pythia could only dream about. The Romans are coming up the mountain to destroy Delphi, kill the girl,…
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Book Review: “Mercy” by David Baldacci
Genre: Thriller In this, book #4 of the Atlee Pine series, FBI Agent Atlee Pine and her assistant, Carol Blum, continue the search for Atlee’s twin sister, Mercy, who was kidnapped from their bedroom when they were six years old. The going is not easy, as there are multiple roadblocks, and criminals, standing in the…
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Book Review: “Blood On Snow” by Jo Nesbo
Genre: Thriller Olav is a “fixer”. He has tried other professions like pimp or selling drugs but he has weaknesses in both that preclude him from excelling in those areas. Olav excels at killing people. Working for big time drug dealer, Daniel Hoffmann, Olav just finished a fix, and now Hoffmann has another job…..to fix…
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