The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell - I hesitate to even put this on my list because most of my friends won't like it. And I don't normally read books with heavy swearing. But I was hooked from the very first page. It starts with two young girls burying their parents in their backyard. A very dark book but uplifting by the end. If it was a movie it would be R rated.
4 stars
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Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry - this book won 3 awards for best first novel. Another one that had me from the very first page. A woman thinks she sees a child thrown from a ferry and dives in to save it. I was a little disappointed at first by the ending but think it had to be that way to develop into a series.
4 stars
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A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry - the second book in the series. I almost liked this one better because I couldn't figure out what was going on. I'd say it lived up to the promise of the 1st book. I hope the author writes more, I really like her main character.
4 stars
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Collateral Damage by Stuart Woods - a Stone Barrington book that takes place very soon after the previous book. This one is really more about Holly Hunter though. The CIA is tracking a terrorist.
3 stars
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The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson - the first in the Sheriff Walt Longmire series. I read the second out of order because it took so long to get this one. And the second book had told me whodunnit in this one but I'd already forgotten that until the very end.
3 stars
I read Learning to Swim a long time ago, but I didn't know it was part of a series. Hmmmm ....
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