A Danish reporter, Anneke Jespersen, is found shot in an alley during the LA riots. Now Bosch is working on unsolved cases and this one has bothered him forever. A gun surfaces. It's tied to some other murders. All the players seem to be united from Desert Storm. But how is Anneke connected?
Bosch has to find the "black box" - the one piece of evidence that will bring justice and closure to her murder.
You will keep turning the pages and rooting for Bosch to get the bad guys. Whew!
Yep - we found the box with Charlie in the basement. I've got him in Texas now, and I hope a friend can sell him at a toy show.
So - that's just a few of the farewell stories. More posts to come.
In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie, once again pulls us into small village intrigue with a unique cast of characters led by the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. There's a new husband, two stepsons, a housekeeper, and a nurse, along with a best friend, and a questionable doctor who's specialty is poisons.
I can't say more, of course. I am enjoying my revisit into Christie world. So darn tricky. I am fooled every time.
Zendaya (so good, what can't she do?) is Tashi, a former HOT college tennis phenom. Mike Faist is Art, Tashi's husband now and struggling on the tennis circuit. She's his coach and books him in a small challenger match to boost his stats and give him a boost. Alas, he gets to face his former best friend, Patrick - now a nemesis.
The movie goes back and forth in time, rather like a match. Oh, there's quite the little history triangle with Tashi, Art, and Patrick. It's steamy, seamy, and director, Luca Guadagnino, knows how to serve up some HOT action. Slice here, some Love there.
Game, Set, Match - who gets burned?
Photo taken yesterday as I sat on the patio. I did not even get up. Just looked up and the two doves seemed to be talking about our wacky bird sculpture.
Happy Wednesday, everyone.
Canary Girls by Jennifer Chiaverini is well researched historical fiction that engages the reader with a slice of history one might not know. Former cooks, maids, shop girls, and housewives sought better wages and more independence than they ever had. The "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts, handled explosives (TNT), and endangered their health for the sake of their nation. (cover blurb)
Identified by their yellow skin and hacking cough, the Canary Girls prove resilient in their work, friendships, lives, and play in the arsenal ladies football club, the Thornshire Canaries. The bosses wife joins the administration and is a staunch advocate for the ladies.
This book is interesting and entertaining. I cared about the ladies and their situations - worries about children at home, husbands on the front, and managing to live in tough conditions.
Abby Stern is thirty three, comfortable in her plus-size skin, does gig jobs, and has a childhood sweetheart. Good friends, her bike, and a Philadelphia cycling club keep her busy.
cover blurb: Yet Abby can't escape the feeling that something isn't right...or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously.
Abby gets a last minute invite to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls - a chance to get away and think about her life. cover blurb - things get complicated fast. Sebastian is on the trip, and her mother Eileen (body shaming past inflictions) shows up.
Over two weeks and seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, a teenage girl unites riders...and Abby is forced to reconsider everything she believes about herself, her mother, and the nature of love.
Hop aboard this bike trip and see what happens.
Robin Lindstrom is reading an email from her dead husband, Gabe, who signed her up for a dating app a year after he died. She's thirty three years old and has been hibernating at their old Minnesota farmhouse.
She gives the dating world a whirl, opens up her heart to some strangers, makes some weird friends, learns to trust the world, and still loves Gabe with all her soul. However, she knows she won't lose him. She'll gain more in life too.
This book is funny and poignant and Avery captures the horror of dating again, and also the opportunities to engage with others. Can Robin emerge from her cocoon to rediscover all the messy, wonderful, horrible things in life?
Take a chance and read this book to find out.
Begin your Monday with Trouble in Paradise. Robert B. Parker has written another Jesse Stone winner. This is the second with this police chief, but is a standalone book. I don't usually go back to back in a series, but these are quick page turners.
cover blurb: Parker's sentences flow with as much wit, grace, and assurance as ever. Stone is a complex and consistently interesting new protagonist. I heartily agree.
Stiles Island is an exclusive wealthy enclave separated by a bridge from the small town of Paradise. What happens when that bridge is blown up? What happens when Stone finds that two women he's dated - local realtor, Marcy Campbell and also local attorney Abby Taylor have been kidnapped.
How does Jesse Stone figure out that a fresh out of prison James Macklin, along with a very bad man nicknamed Crow, are in charge of this scheme? Casualties mount. The stakes run high.
For a town called Paradise, there is a lot of trouble brewing and Jesse Stone must focus. (But, ex-wife Jenn is back and tugging at his heartstrings) Keep reading and have a "blast".
Night Passage by Robert B. Parker is first in a series with a new character, Jesse Stone. (Parker is known for his Spenser novels). Anyway, Jesse Stone is thirty five, newly divorced, borderline alcoholic, and dumped from his LAPD detective job. He gets a call from a Massachusetts town called Paradise and is hired as the new police chief. Is this a new start?
cover blurb For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption - replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen, and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman.
Jesse Stone must use his unnerving quiet power and skills to uncover all the dirt and emerge a hero. Or does one false move lead to death? Keep turning the pages and find out. This is a quick read with underlying humor and some "oh wow" moments. Good brain candy.
I almost don't need to say more. I picked this book for our PA book club. Let's go old school. It was listed as THE BEST Crime Thriller Novel EVER on a few lists.
What the heck! Let's give it a go. I was not disappointed.
I went through an Agatha Christie phase back in junior high and high school. Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple - oh the best detectives. The clever plots. The small town settings. The subtle clues I never got.
This book is amazing considering 1926 Seriously. How did she come up with this?
I'm not going to give away plot or characters or possibilities. You MUST read this book and just bow.
Kudos Dame Agatha. I guessed everyone in the damn village, and then said, "WTF?"
Oh yeah! Enjoy, my friends. Re-visit the BEST.
Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection - Walt Whitman
Happy Earth Day!
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau
That's a round-up of spring in San Saba (look out for snakes - rattlers on the move. None slithered out on this trip)
ribbons trail, wordless signals of joy
crane our necks to watch to the show
memories of past kites - wispy wishes in the wind
Happy Weekend everyone!
Birds quieted
Wow!
And then the light switch slowly turned on, clouds cleared, kids started playing again, adults just kept saying "Holy cow, that was so cool."
Aunt Pat gave us notice last year for this "party", and she threw a doozie.
Won't be around in three hundred years for the next total eclipse. Very glad to be here for this one.
Science rules!
Now today April 8th 2024, Ray and I will be in San Saba TX. If the weather cooperates, it should be a total eclipse viewing. Fingers crossed. I am writing this in March. Sure hope it works.
And I am going to write this - I hope the former President looks directly at the sun like he did in 2017 and some how implodes. That is an evil thing to write, but I do wish it upon this man who does not respect science. Seriously, let's look at solar eclipses through the years - do not stare at the freakin' sun, you fool.
cheers all. Enjoy. Use your glasses and it should be way cool.
And Happy Birthday to my brother David. Today is his day too - 61. Dang! That's getting old, dude. Love ya!
I'm busy and yet not
I have stuff in my brain and yet can't verbalize
Bear with me as I do a reset of some sort.
I read and yet don't comprehend. I see and yet I don't . What is going on? I'm tired and nap and yet I'm awake. Sorta going through the motions of life, but in slow mo....
Possibly depressed. Well yeah- my childhood phone number is gone!!!
We're clearing out the family house. So many memories
Sigh
Bear with me and have a good weekend. I will but will I know it........???
