A Painted Doom by Kate Ellis - the 6th Wesley Peterson book. A faded rock star is found dead in a farmer's field and many false threads are followed before the murderer is found. And Wesley's friend Neil is doing an archeological dig that parallels the investigation.
3 stars
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The Coldest Summer by Kate Rice - Australian transplant police detective Mick Downey finds himself leading an investigation hampered by a wealthy family in San Fransisco. This is a first novel by the author and it seemed to flutter between being a straight mystery or romance. The Kindle version needed some serious editing.
2 stars
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper - 82 yo Etta leaves a note for her husband that she is going to see the ocean and begins walking east from Saskatchewan. Memories and thoughts go back and forth in time and it's not always clear who is remembering what. A very different book that I liked quite a lot.
4 stars
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Lost and Found by Brooke Davis - Millie Bird, whose father has recently died is left in a department store by her grieving mother. Agatha, 82, hasn't left her home since her husband died 7 years ago. Karl, 87, escapes from a nursing home. Somehow they all end up together as they grieve in their own ways. Sex and language.
3 stars
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A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray - a YA scifi. Marguerite's parents have invented a way to travel between dimensions. Before it can be tested, their research assistant kills her father and steals the device, traveling to another dimension. Marguerite and Theo follow him, planning to take their revenge. This has an ending but it is the beginning of a trilogy. This is also a romance with the obligatory teenage angst.
4 stars
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Numbers by Rachel Ward - another YA. Jem sees numbers when she looks in people's eyes and it's only when her mother dies that she realizes the numbers are the day the person will die. At 15 she's a loner and outcast. Then she meets Spider and slowly starts to thaw. When they go to London for the day she realizes many people are going to die that day. The beginning of a trilogy. Teenage love and sex.
3 stars
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Death on the Move by Bill Crider - the 4th Sheriff Dan Rhodes. This time someone is stealing jewelry from the bodies at the funeral home. And while investigating robberies at weekend homes, the sheriff discovers a dead body. Not quite as good as some but I'll still give it
3 stars
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