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Book #92 was When the Bough Breaks, the first book in Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware series. The back of the book reads: In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have
Read moreBook #85 was Raise the Titanic!, the fourth book in Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt series. The back of the book reads: The President’s secret task force develops the ultimate defensive weapon. At its core: byzanium, a radioactive element so rare sufficient quantities have never been found. But a frozen American corpse on a desolate Soviet mountainside, a bizarre mining accident in Colorado, and a madman’s
Read moreBook #83 was The Legacy by Stephen Frey. The back of the book reads: A hard-working financier on Wall Street is informed that his estranged father has died and left him the key to a safety-deposit box. What he finds inside is a videotape of the JFK assassination–filmed from the other side of Dealey Plaza. Before he can get over the initial shock of his
Read moreBook #82 was Split Second, the second book in Alex Kava’s Maggie O’Dell series. The back of the book reads: Some say Maggie O’Dell has lost it — lost the professional edge that makes her one of the best criminal profilers, and lost her ability to think clearly. Since capturing Stucky she’s been walking a tightwire, battling nightmares and the guilt over the victims she
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