Aug 27 - Sept 2, 2017

The Search by Nora Roberts - Fiona Bristow runs a dog training business on Orcas Island and is also head of a search and rescue team. She's also the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer. Now it looks like there's a copycat coming to finish the job. Plus a romantic entanglement with her new neighbor, a hunky woodworker with a problem puppy. I should have known what I was getting into with a Nora Roberts book. The rapturous sex parts are easy to skip over, but sexual repartee not so much. I guess I'm really old, I have a hard time believing people talk like that when they barely know one another. Had to keep reading so they could catch the bad guy though. And the dog part was enjoyable.

2 stars
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Memory Man by David Baldacci - through an accident on a football field, Amos Decker can remember everything he sees. Including the scene of the murder of his family, so far an unsolved case. He falls into a deep hole, losing his job as a detective and his friends. When a man confesses to the murder of his family of course he's instantly interested. Then there's a massacre at the high school and somehow it's connected to something in his past and his family's murder. The first in a new to me series. A little gruesome and the last scene tied up a little too neatly but I'll be reading more in the series.

3 stars
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Swiss Vendetta by Tracee de Hahn - Swiss police detective Agnes Lughi is called to her first case after switching from financial crime to violent crimes. The body of a young woman has been found in front of a chateau in the middle of a snowstorm. Trapped with the taciturn family and servants in the chateau, she has trouble finding a reason for the murder, let alone who did it. There are a few sub-plots, with one of them suddenly becoming the focus. A good debut, the author really set the atmosphere. I was cold on a 90 degree day.

3 stars
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Arf by Spencer Quinn - the second in the Bowser and Birdie series. Someone has broken into Birdie's house, but why? The Gaux's have nothing valuable. Bowser is suspicious of a stranger who drives around with a cat in his car. And Birdie is suspicious of an unfriendly family in town. Told from Bowser's point of view.

3 stars