“A far stronger smell blasted out of the dark space, immediately overwhelming and shocking Pam’s senses. It was putrid. Something rotten. Like a decomposing animal.”
“All passengers on board are accounted for. All crewmembers are accounted for. No one is missing, not a single person.” Hendricks shrugged. “So it seems we have a stowaway.”
Maria Fontana’s life changed the day she was selected for jury duty for the murder trial of Wyatt Butler. Charged with the murder and mutilation of eight children, he was labeled the worst serial killer in decades. When the jury couldn’t agree on conviction, the mistrial threw their lives into turmoil. The public and the victim’s family were furious, how could they have let this monster go?
Happy Tuesday all! I was under the weather yesterday so I’m gonna pretend it didn’t happen. 😁 Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend! They are just never long enough for me. I managed to finish a book but did not manage to finish any of my backlog of reviews. Just keep swimming. 🐟
However I did receive this book mail that I am so excited for! Thank you St. Martin’s Press!
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival Tom Clavin Nonfiction, Biography Publication Date: 11/2/21
An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.
TGIF! Oh I am so happy it’s Friday! Definitely ready for the weekend! Hopefully spend some quality time reading.
Book mail makes it even better! Thank you so much St. Martin’s Press for this copy!
The Brightest Star in Paris Diana Biller Historical Romance Publication Date: 10/12/21
Amelie St. James, prima ballerina of the Paris Opera Ballet and the people’s saint, has spent seven years pretending. In the devastating aftermath of the Siege of Paris, she made a decision to protect her sister: she became the bland, sweet, pious “St. Amie” the ballet needed to restore its scandalous reputation. But when her first love reappears, and the ghosts of her past come back to haunt her, all her hard-fought safety is threatened.
Dr. Benedict Moore has never forgotten the girl who helped him embrace life again after he almost lost his. Now, he’s back in Paris after twelve years for a conference. His goals are to recruit promising new scientists, and, maybe, to see Amelie again. When he discovers she’s in trouble, he’s desperate to help her—after all, he owes her.
I know for a fact that I will not get through them all since my monthly average lately is like 3 😁 but I am going to see what I can get through. I got behind and rolled my April TBR over, just gonna do my best to catch up.
Some nice beach reads to look forward to! Just wish I was actually on the beach to read them 😜.
A Deadly Influence by Mike Omer – Pub date: 4/1/21
Endings by Linda L. Richards – Pub date: 4/6/21
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth – Pub date: 4/13/21
Anchored Hearts by Priscilla Oliveras – Pub date: 4/27/21
A Shepherd of Wolves by R.J. King – Pub date: 4/27/21
A Summer to Remember by Erika Montgomery – Pub date: 5/11/21
Beneath Devil’s Bridge by Loreth Anne White – Pub date: 6/1/21
The Puma Years by Laura Coleman – Pub date: 6/1/21
Oh it has been a week! So glad it’s the weekend and I get a chance to relax a bit. I finally got to do a little reading today, the first time all week my book has left my bedstand. But aside from being ridiculously busy, I received some great looking books this week! I love the variety! 😍
Mara is struggling with her current path in life. Her husband is across the world, digging wells in Africa, she is home working a demanding job, trying to raise their three detention prone children and failing to keep up on the house duties. Then a devastating loss occurs and she must lean on those around her to heal and find her faith again.
Darcy, a bisexual teen, gives anonymous dating advice to her classmates for a fee. When popular hot guy, Brougham catches on to her, he blackmails her into helping him get his ex girlfriend back.
A 37 year old woman goes missing. Young detective DS Emma Jones is leading the investigation. With suspects including a new boyfriend, a married coworker who was having an affair with the missing woman, and an ex lover, police certainly have their work cut out for them.
FBI Agent Nick Bracco and his team must track down a racial zealot group before a possible terrorist attack. He turns to his mafia connected cousin to help him track them down by means not available to the FBI.
“I wasn’t sure why I was still working for Vinnie. I suspected it had something to do with the title. Bounty Hunter. It held a certain cat he. Even better, the job didn’t require panty hose.”
Stephanie Plum is at it again and this time the bodies are really piling up.
“Christ, Stephanie, this makes four! Four dead bodies. Eight if you count the ones in the cellar.” “It’s not my fault!” I stuffed my fists onto my hips. “You think I want to keep finding dead bodies? This is no picnic for either, you know.”
Getting back to Stephanie Plum and Grandma Mazur! I love this series so much, it is so fun and entertaining. When you are in a reading slump or a book hangover, they are the perfect medicine. No matter what challenge I am participating in, I always find room to fit at least one of these in.
Blurb: Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick is back and she’s having a bad hair day — for the whole month of January. She’s been given the unpopular task of finding Mo Bedemier, Trenton’s most beloved citizen, arrested for carrying concealed, gone no-show for his court appearance.
And to make matters worse, she’s got Lula, a former hooker turned file clerk — now a wannabe bounty hunter — at her side, sticking like glue. Lula’s big and blonde and black and itching to get the chance to lock up a crook in the trunk of her car.
Morelli, the New Jersey vice cop with the slow-burning smile that undermines a girl’s strongest resolve is being polite. So what does this mean? Has he found a new love? Or is he manipulating Steph, using her in his police investigation, counting on her unmanageable curiosity and competitive Jersey attitude?
Once again, the entire One for the Money crew is in action, including Ranger and Grandma Mazur, searching for Mo, tripping down a trail littered with dead drug dealers, leading Stephanie to suspect Mo has traded his ice-cream scoop for a vigilante gun.
Cursed with a disastrous new hair color and an increasing sense that it’s really time to get a new job, Stephanie spirals and tumbles through Three to Get Deadly with all the wisecracks and pace her fans have come to
I love that Dan Brown has brillant woman cryptographers as his characters! It’s so awesome to see a male author put women in powerful positions that are male dominate roles. Cyber books always bring out the geek in me.
“When the NSA’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage … not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but also for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.”
“I merely encountered Lucifer, and he thinks I can bring him out of hell and give him back paradise.” “I avoid Lucifer if I can. I understand his ambition and recognize it in myself. It’s just another name for power, and it can be a heady brew.”
Catherine has just returned from a job in Peru when she gets a call from Venable, the deputy director of the CIA and her boss. He needs her in Hong Kong now. There is a situation that only she can help with, Hu Chang. A mysterious Chinese medicine potion maker, he is also a master poison maker and assassin but he is the closest thing to a father that Catherine knows. He took her in when she was young, alone, and on the streets. “Hu Chang stopped being innocent a long, long time ago. He’s capable of doing anything that he chooses. But he doesn’t usually choose anything that would get him into this kind of trouble. What’s he done?” “I think he’s concocted some potion or drug that’s fairly world-shaking.”
Book 2 in the Catherine Ling series. This is a spin off of the Eve Duncan series, which I am obsessed with! The first book which was #12 in the Eve series, Eve meets Catherine and helps her get her son back from a murderous Russian mafia head. I am looking forward to finding out if I like Catherine Ling as much as I like Eve Duncan. Only time will tell.
“It’s the deadliest poison known to man. He’s the only one who knows its true power. She’s the only one who can stop the evil.
The chase is on. . . .
Catherine Ling was abandoned on the streets of Hong Kong at age four. Schooled in the art of survival, she traded in the only commodity she had: information. As a teenager, she came under the tutelage of a mysterious man known only as Hu Chang—a skilled assassin and master poisoner. As a young woman, she was recruited by the CIA and now she is known as one of their most effective operatives. When her old friend Hu Chang creates a formula that’s not only deadly but completely untraceable, the race begins to be the first to get it. Catherine finds herself up against a group so villainous and a man so evil that she may not survive in her quest to protect those she cares about: Hu Chang and Luke—the son who was stolen from Catherine and only recently brought home safe. Using all of her formidable skills, Catherine Ling proves the age-old belief that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
