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It’s Still Jack Reacher in The Sentinel

May 4, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

The Sentinel is the twenty-fifth book in the Jack Reacher series. I haven’t noticed any issues with the transition from Lee Child writing alone to coauthoring with Andrew Child. It is still classic Jack Reacher. However, Reacher is becoming a dinosaur in his investigative methods. He has never carried a cell phone, doesn’t drive a car, doesn’t know how to operate a computer. He looks up phone numbers and addresses in the paper director, if there even is one. It looks like Rusty Rutherford, the IT consultant that Reacher is protecting from all of the bad guys in this story is going to give him a little help in bringing himself up-to-date on the technology side of things, so you can look forward to Jack Reacher with a smart phone as the series progresses. This could open up a whole new world for Reacher. Online searches and maps, calling an Uber, Amazon delivering to his door… the possibilities are endless.

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Start Over with the Christmas Cupcake Murder

April 27, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Start over? Yes, I am currently reading Joanna Fluke’s Christmas Cupcake Murder, and while it is book 26 in her Hannah Swensen series, it is actually set before the rest of the series in the timeline. Sort of the origin story for Hannah and the Lake Eden community.

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Get Hitched to Murder with Peacocks

April 20, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

I am enjoying my second book in a row from Donna Andrews. I just recently read Lark! The Herald Angels Sing, which is book #24 in this thirty book series, and have returned to book #1, Murder with Peacocks, to where it all started. All of the books in this series are named with bird names, as you might have guessed, and nearly every second book appears to have a Christmas theme.

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Catch The Last Train to London

April 13, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I just finished The Last Train to London. It’s a pretty heart-wrenching book, as you’ll probably guess when you read the description below. It is a fictionalization of Truus Wijsmuller’s (Tante Truus’s) efforts to smuggle Jewish children out of Germany and Austria during WWII. It is a slow build, with no graphic violence and while it is tense, you are not usually on the edge of your seat. But I will tell you, the scenes of the parents saying goodbye to their children as they were put on the train, knowing that they would quite likely never see them again had me pretty choked up.

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Immerse Yourself in Shed No Tears

April 6, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I am currently reading Shed No Tears by Caz Frear, book 3 in the Kat Kinsella series. I haven’t read any of the other books in this series, but had no problem getting into it or following the storyline. I am definitely curious about the other books in the series and will pick them up as I see them. Shed No Tears is a UK police procedural, an investigation into a cold case. The victim was previously assumed to be the victim of a serial killer who had been caught and convicted, but when the body surfaces some years later, there are enough doubts raised to question whether it was actually one of the serial killer’s or not.

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Read A Time for Mercy, a Grisham Courtroom Drama

March 30, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

I am in the midst of my latest read by John Grisham, A Time for Mercy, released in October 2020. It is the third in the Jake Brigance series. It is what Grisham does best, legal suspense and courtroom drama. The characters are well-developed, the legal challenges clear and concise, and a fifteen-year-old’s life is on the line.

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A Longmire Mystery, Death Without Company

March 23, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

I am most of the way through Death Without Company, which is book #2 in Craig Johnson’s Longmire Mysteries series. I was not aware before I started it, but this series is the basis for a Netflix series called Longmire. I just checked, and it’s available on the Canadian version of Netflix as well as the US.

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Get your thrills with Hush

March 16, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I was afraid when I looked at my recent blog posts that I was featuring a James Patterson book two weeks in a row. Close, but not quite! I featured James Patterson’s Lost two weeks ago, and this week, it is Hush, book number four in the Harriet Blue series. I haven’t previously read any of the books in this series, I don’t think, so you can definitely read it as a standalone and understand all of what is going on. Hush is set in Australia, with an Australian narrator for the audiobook. Harriet Blue is a tough female cop who doesn’t just cross the line in her investigations, she bulldozes right through any policy or law that stands in her way.

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Masie Dobbs investigates the MIA in Pardonable Lies

March 9, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I just finished Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. I’ve read a number of books in the Maisie Dobbs series, and they are quite interesting. The audiobook I listened to had an interview with Winspear at the end of it and it was quite interesting to listen to her speak about the way that the Maisie Dobbs character and series came about.

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James Patterson’s Lost will keep you enthralled

March 2, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

This week I am reading Lost, by James Patterson and James O Born. It is a great thriller that revolves around international human trafficking and is set in Miami, Florida.
Take the compassion of James Patterson’s Michael Bennett, a New York cop with ten adopted children, mixed together with the failed football career of David Baldacci’s Amos Decker, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what to expect from Det. Tom Moon.

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