Book Reviews and a Little More…
Book #59 was Driving Force by Dick Francis. The back of the book reads: Transporting racehorses to the course is big business for ex-jockey Freddie Croft. But when a driver breaks a cardinal rule and picks up a hitchhiker, the results are fatal…for the hitchhiker. Freddie knows that a corpse is bad for business, especially when its trail leads to corpse number two — and
Read moreBook #58 was In the Midst of Death, the second (or third, I’m not really sure) book in Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder series. The back of the book reads: Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn’t make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an ambitious d.a. about police corruption. Now he’s accused of murdering a call girl. Matthew Scudder doesn’t think Broadfield’s
Read moreBook #57 was Fearless Fourteen, the fourteenth book in Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series. The back of the book reads: Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet. The Crime: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His
Read moreBook #55 was Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger. The back of the book reads: Ridley Jones has been living a lie. A mysterious package showed up on her doorstep one morning and the beautiful lie she used to call her life was over. Suddenly, everyone in she knows feels like a stranger. She has no idea who’s on her side and who has something to
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