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Book #14 was Judge & Jury by James Patterson. The back of the book reads: Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante is closing in on the notorious mob boss The Electrician, when the scheduled sting goes spectacularly awry. Two FBI agents are dead, the boss is wounded, and Pellisante vows the Electricians next move will be from a jail cell. Andie Echeverra, a part-time actress and
Read moreBook #13 was Weep Not for the Vampire by William A. Veselik. Which I find strangely appropriate. The back of the book reads: A vampire, weary of his undead existence and haunted by his recent slaying of an innocent child, returns to his rural Virginia hometown planning to find some method of destroying himself. He unexpectedly discovers a daughter and granddaughter he never knew he
Read moreBook #11 was Prince of Fire, the 5th book in Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon series. The back of the book reads: Few recent thriller writers have excited the kind of critical praise that Daniel Silva has, with his novels featuring art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon. Now Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation:
Read moreBook #10 was Maisie Dobbs, the first book in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. The back of the book reads: Maisie Dobbs isn’t just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence—and the patronage of her benevolent employers—she works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that
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