Publication Info: Published June 26, 2018 by St. Martin’s Press. Hardcover edition courtesy of my local library. Other editions available. Summary: As a young child, Lynn Roseworth was repeatedly warned by her father to never go into the woods. The one time she went in there, she saw something terrifying. Now in her 70’s, she lives with her senator husband in her childhood home. Her eldest daughter lives next door with her husband and sons. Lynn instilled the fear of the woods into her own children, but her grandsons are less cautious. One day the youngest wanders into the woods …
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Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
Publication Info: Published April 6, 2010 by Vintage. Previously published in 2008 by Walker and Watson, Ltd. Other editions available. Summary: Bruno is the chief of police in the fictional small town of St. Denis in southern France. He enjoys his job, which mostly consists of being friendly and coaching kids’s sports teams. He loves his quiet lifestyle and has no desire to make a name for himself. He also really enjoys assisting the townspeople in foiling the E.U. inspectors attempts to enforce the market hygiene laws. After all, people had been eating the local eggs and cheese for centuries …
Swift Dam by Sid Gustafson
Publication Info: Published May 1, 2016 by Open Books. Kindle reviewer’s edition courtesy of the publisher. Other editions available. Summary: The worst flood in Montana’s history occurred in 1964, when the Swift Dam broke after being inundated with rain and snow. Thirty-one lives were lost, all but one on the Blackfeet Reservation. (1) Using this fact as background, plus his own knowledge and experience of that area, the author gives us a story that ties the past and present together through two men. One of the men is an elderly veterinarian. He uses his hands and deep knowledge to train …
The Warehouse by Rob Hart
Publication Info: Published August 20, 2019 by Crown. Kindle pre-pub edition courtesy of NetGalley. Summary: In the near future, global warming has turned much of the country into permanent desert conditions. Small towns are nearly abandoned and cities are hot and overcrowded. After the Black Friday Massacre, when thousands of people were shot while doing their holiday shopping, people are afraid to leave their homes for even routine errands. Most brick and mortar stores have gone out of business except for the very largest ones and a few determined mom-and-pop stores. One man, Gibson Wells, is behind the solution. He …
The Year of the Return by Nathaniel Popkin
Publication Info: Published Aug 1, 2019 by Open Books. Kindle edition courtesy of their Book Glow reviewers program. Summary: The setting is Philadelphia, 1976, just before the country’s Bicentennial. The country is still reeling from the effects of the Viet Nam war. Mayor Frank Rizzo is throwing his weight around, doing his best to foment racial uprisings, just so he can quell them with force. In the midst of this stew are two families, the Silks and the Johnsons. They met and connected a few years previously when Paul Silk married Charlene Johnson. As the story begins, Paul has just …
A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness #2)
Publication Info: Published July 1, 2008 by Berkley. Kindle edition courtesy of my local library. Other editions available. Summary: Lady Georgianna is struggling to make ends meet, so she takes on odd jobs as a maid for the more prosperous members of her set. Some of them could recognize her so she does her best to keep her head down. But being inconspicuous is difficult when you are cousin to the queen and thirty-fourth in line for the throne of England. Georgie, as she likes to be called, is summoned to tea by the queen. The queen then informs her …
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Publication Info: Published September 4, 2018 by Harper Paperbacks. I read the paperback. Other editions available. Summary: In 1942, Lale Sokolov is transported by train to Auschwitz concentration camp with thousands of other people in cattle cars. He is forced to abandon his personal belongings, is shaved, tattooed and shoved into overcrowded barracks. Hungry and weak from thirst, he and the men stumble weakly from their bunks the following morning. They discover two of their block-mates are already dead. Lale is determined to survive this place. His wits, innate charm and ability to speak several languages are valuable skills in …
