Books
“Wait Till Next Year” by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Copyright 1997 by Blithedale Publications Inc. Published by Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York. This is a book about baseball and family and the loss of neighborhoods in America. Kearns’ childhood obsession with the Brooklyn Dodgers is recounted with deeply personal memories. Baseball becomes intertwined with her family – especially the sickness and death of … Continue reading
“Sometimes I Lie” by Alice Feeney
Copyright 2018 by Alice Feeney. Published by Flatiron Books, New York. Occasionally I read a book that I admire but have a hard time recommending. This is one of them. The problems I have with the book are (1) there are no likable characters and (2) I found the jumping around in time – from … Continue reading
“Two Graves” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Copyright 2012 by Splendide Mendax, Inc. and Lincoln Child. Published by Grand Central Publishing, New York. This is #12 in the series of Preston and Child books that feature Aloysius Pendergast, FBI agent extraordinaire. It is the fifth Preston and Child book that I have read and the fourth in the Pendergast series, the previous … Continue reading
“Orchid Beach” by Stuart Woods
Copyright 1998 by Stuart Woods. Published by HarperCollins Publishing Inc, New York. This was my second try at a Stuart Woods novel. I hated the first one. This one is considerably better. There is no question that Woods is a talented writer. Crisp dialog, rapid movement of the plot, short chapters. It is really a … Continue reading
“Monster” by Jonathan Kellerman
Copyright 1999 by Jonathan Kellerman. Published by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Yes, another book review. I have been doing a lot of reading because (1) it is a pandemic so what else is there to do? (2) my vision, with glasses, is really clear after my cataract surgery making … Continue reading
“Corrupted” by Lisa Scottoline
Copyright 2015 by Smart Blond, LLC. Published by St Martin’s Press, New York. This is billed as #3 in Scottoline’s “Rosato & Denunzio” series. Well, she must have reset the counter after Denunzio became a partner because there are a whole bunch of Rosato books that precede this one. For those of you not familiar … Continue reading
“Taken” by Robert Crais
Copyright 2012 by Robert Crais. Published by The Berkley Publishing Group, New York. I have one major complaint about this book and that is the jumbled timeline. There are times when telling a story out of chronological order makes for a better story, but this is not one of them. I found jumping from “6 … Continue reading
“The Guilty” by David Baldacci
Copyright 2015 by Columbia Rose Ltd., published by Grand Central Publishing, New York Let me start by saying that the plot in this book is one of the most twisted, perverse and just downright evil that I have ever read. Since I am a fan of Jeffrey Deaver, the master of twisted and perverse, that … Continue reading
“Dance of Death” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Copyright 2005 by Lincoln Child and Splendide Mendax, Inc. Published by Grand Central Publishing, New York. This is #6 in the series of Preston & Child books featuring Aloyisius Pendergast, FBI agent extraordinaire. I have read several other Pendergast books but this is the earliest one in the series of all that I have read. … Continue reading
“The Cuban Affair” by Nelson DeMille
Copyright 2017 by Nelson DeMille. Published by Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York. I am having a hard time evaluating this book. This is my first Nelson DeMille novel and I have to say that I like his writing style. Very lively. The characters are interesting. The settings are places … Continue reading