The Gunslinger by Stephen King - the first book the the Dark Tower series. Everyone quotes the first line when they talk about this book so I will too. "The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed." And that about sums up the book. This takes place on our world in a different time, or another world like ours, or maybe we'll find out later. I read this because I wanted to have some background before the movie comes out. Not sure if it helped. And because I have to know, I'll read the second in the series.
3 stars
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Reckless Creed by Alex Kava - Ryder Creed and his K9 search and rescue dogs are called on for something different than the usual. Someone is trying to start a pandemic and the dogs are being trained to detect the virus. Although this is billed as the third Ryder Creed novel, Maggie O'Dell, the FBI agent from the author's other series features just as much. She's on the search for the rogue scientist that escaped her in the previous Creed book. I like these books because of the dogs.
3 stars
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The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith - it's near the end of WWII in Italy, and one night Cenzo, a fisherman, pulls into his boat a young girl on the run from the Nazis. He decides to help smuggle her out of the country. This is supposed to be a historical mystery with some romance but it didn't hit any of those for me. A little too slow paced until the very end.
2 stars
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In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman - Tess Monaghan is out of her comfort zone when she goes to Texas to find an old boyfriend. She gets dragged into a 20 year old murder and at the same time the boyfriend is being accused of a current murder. The fourth in the series and it ends with an interesting development that I'm curious to see played out in the next book.
3 stars
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A Walk in the Woods:Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson - almost on a whim, the author decides to walk the trail, seemingly with little preparation. And his traveling companion is even less prepared. Lots of history and geology lessons along the way, with very un-pc thoughts about the residents of Georgia. This wasn't as amusing as I expected.
2 stars
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Random Acts by J.A. Jance - a short e-book in which Sheriff Joanna Brady learns her mother and stepfather have been killed in a car accident. Or was it? I don't think it's fair to put important info in these short stories. Book 17 in the series started with Joanna dealing with their deaths and you're going when did this happen?
2 stars
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The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware - Lo Blacklock is not dealing well with a recent trauma. So when she thinks she's heard a woman thrown overboard while on a cruise she has trouble getting others to believe her. For one thing, no one is missing and no one saw the woman except Lo. But someone believes her and it's probably the murderer. Or is the whole thing her imagination?
4 stars
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