The Long Way Home by Louise Penny - the 10th Armand Gamache book finds the Inspector retired and living in Three Pines, the setting of previous books. He's asked to look into the disappearance of a friend's husband. These books are not typical mysteries, there is much introspection and philosophical musings. And to be best enjoyed, the series needs to be read in order.
4 stars
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The Button Man by Mark Pryor - although the 4th book in the series, this is a prequel and Hugo Marston is head of security at the London U.S. embassy. He's asked to babysit an acting couple who have been involved in a hit and run. Before he even meets them, the wife is found dead. One yuck scene at a "special" kind of club.
3 stars
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A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller - Bell Elkins, prosecuting attorney in a poverty stricken town in W. Virginia, is horrified when she learns her daughter was a witness to a shooting. Were the elderly men somehow involved in the rampant drug trade going on in the county? Very good for a first novel, just a little repetitious. Now to see if the second in the series is just as good. Some language and sex
4.5 stars
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Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time by Phyllis Rose - I didn't know anything about Josephine Baker before I read this other than she was an American who lived in Paris. There were parts of the book that were boring and the author herself admits she probably let her own sensibilities influence her.
4 stars
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Found by Harlan Coben - the third in the YA Mickey Bolitar series. This takes place almost immediately after the previous book. Mickey still believes his father is alive and things still aren't going well at school. Then he's asked to help prove that the star basketball player hasn't been taking steroids. And his best friends boyfriend has gone missing. Quite a lot of repetition and nothing seemed to happen until the end.
2 stars
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Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest by Brian Dickinson - true story of the author's attempt to summit Mount Everest.
3 stars
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Double by Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller - alternating chapters with the author's characters, the Nameless Detective and Sharon McCone, telling the story. They're at a private investigator convention when Sharon's friend falls off a high rise balcony. Or did she? Written in 1984 and quite dated.
2 stars
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The Blood Promise by Mark Pryor - Hugo Marston, head of security for the Paris American Embassy, must babysit an unpopular (to the French) American senator in France for negotiations. Things go downhill when the senator claims he's been robbed. Not as good as previous books, too many suspects.
3 stars
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