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Tara Westover grew up in rural Idaho, the youngest daughter of a somewhat fundamentalist (heavy on scripture but no plural wives) Mormon family. Following the FBI’s raid on Ruby Ridge in 1992, her father also completed his plunge into becoming a paranoid survivalist, complete with burying gas and guns on their land so they would be ready when the FBI came to take them away.
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I finished up my 2018 reading with another thriller/mystery, this one by debut author Matt Goldman, and my second of the year set in the Minneapolis area. Nils Shapiro is a private investigator with friends on the police force who is occasionally called in to consult. And this one has everyone stumped — a woman is found dead in her bed, but the entire room
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I thought this was a pretty good romance with an interesting setting. The MaCahy’s live in Missouri near the border with Kansas in the last months of the Civil War, an area that is being terrorized by a gang of rogue soldiers. The two daughters are living alone with their farm and home help after their brother has to go fight in the war and
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This was a solid thriller that I zipped through over Thanksgiving break. The crime (and how it was witnessed) was chilling, and Barclay keeps the suspense going with a lot of twists and turns. You can try to put the puzzle pieces together yourself, but don’t be surprised if you’re wrong! Yet it still all makes sense. I thought the portrayal of small town and
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