A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths - the 4th Ruth Galloway mystery. Drugs, horses and old bones are all mixed together in a story that was just a little too mystical for me. And in my last review I said I was getting involved with the characters but this time it's a little too soap operaish. I think I'd better wait awhile before the next one.
3 stars
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A Betrayal of Trust by Susan Hill - a Simon Serrailler novel. I like these stories but sometimes Simon's character is not very sympathetic and he's at his worst here. The bones of a girl missing for 16 years are found and Simon is in charge of the investigation. That part goes pretty slowly but there are lots of other people to wonder about. Not everything is wrapped up and I hope it is at least mentioned in the next book.
3 stars
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Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn - a true account of the author's friendship with the con artist and murderer Christian Gerharstreiter who was calling himself Clark Rockefeller at the time of their meeting. A little too much about the author but still interesting.
3 stars
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Eve Green by Susan Fletcher - Eve reflects on her life as she nears the end of her pregnancy. A story of love and loss. I thought it was beautifully written.
4 stars
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Ruth's First Christmas Tree by Elly Griffiths - I know, I said I was taking a break from Ruth for awhile but this was a short ebook that was free. It bridges the gap between books 4 and 5. Just a story about Ruth getting her first tree because of her daughter.
3 stars
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A Simple Plan by Scott B. Smith - two brothers and a friend find a downed airplane and discover 4.4 million dollars in it. They decide to keep the money. Disaster ensues. I read this with a building sense of dread.
3.5 stars
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The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart - the funny and sad, almost at the same time, story of Balthazar Jones. He lives and works in the Tower of London and somehow finds himself the keeper of the new zoo. In the meantime, he and his wife are still having difficulty dealing with the death of their son. This book is filled with facts about the tower, I'm going to assume they're true.
4 stars
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Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson - a disgraced professor is found dead and Inspector Banks suspects it may have something to do with what happened at university 40 years ago. Lots of police work has to be done before things are solved. Not sure I liked the ending.
3 stars
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Carnal Curiosity by Stuart Woods - okay, pretty sure this is the last Stone Barrington novel I read. Hopefully I can control my series OCD. When Stone is having s*x three pages into the book with someone he's had a 10 min conversation with it's time to throw in the towel. The plot was muddied with former book characters thrown in for no apparent reason. I wonder if Mr Woods even writes these anymore, seems like a new one is out every 6 months.
2 stars
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