with five good entries in five series I really enjoy.
Night and Day by Robert B. Parker - A junior high school teacher performs a panty check at an eighth grade dance - there may not have been a crime, but Jesse Stone sure has a lot of angry parents to deal with. Plus there's a peeping tom, who just graduated to entering houses and forcing women to strip at gunpoint. Jesse's small police force is stretched trying to catch the peeper before his compulsion leads to physical violence, while Jesse is also trying to help a teen whose parents are playing with an alternate lifestyle, reluctantly on the mother's part. Plus a breakthrough in his relationship with his ex-wife. Usual Parker style - I'm quite fond of it :) More of a small town feel/small town stories this time rather than a huge criminal enterprise. Sunny Randall also appears. (Wonder if he'll ever have all three series intersect majorly? Hmm...)
Dead Silence by Randy Wayne White - Doc Ford foils the kidnapping of the lovely US senator he's meeting in NYC, but the essay winning Native American teenager who's caught a ride with her gets taken instead. But this kid is no pushover and causes lots of trouble for the kidnappers, while Doc is tracing the backtrail to Cuba. The senator is on a committee dealing with some of Castro's files and someone wants some of the information. Doc's - and friend Tomlinson's - past come back to haunt him as he tries to find the teen before the grave the boy's buried in becomes his final resting place. Set in the near future after the death of Fidel Castro. Thought this one stretched things a bit, but still a good fast-paced thriller.
The Perfect Poison by Amanda Quick - newest in the Arcane Society series. Lucinda Bromley, botanist and psychic, goes to Caleb Jones to help keep her out of prison. She used her abilities to determine that a man died of poison, but the only available example of the rare plant that produced the poison was recently stolen from her. She's been falsely accused of poisoning before and fears this time she'll be sent to prison. Caleb connects the theft to the cabal from the previous Arcane Society novels and the two join forces, investigatively and romantically. Witty, fun, and frothily delicious. (A to Z author)
Borderline by Nevada Barr - Anna Pigeon's on leave for PTSD after the events of
Winter Study and she and husband Paul are rafting in Texas' Big Bend National Park. After their group rescues a stranded cow, they find another creature in distress - a pregnant woman near death caught up in a downed tree. She dies and Anna is forced to do an emergency C-section to save the baby. And they discover that someone is determined that the infant die, when two of their group are shot down as they seek safety. Obssessive love, immigration, and politics mix together in the Texas wilderness in a deadly fight to live. Excellent. Another great entry in a great series.
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher - newest Dresden Files book. Love them :) Warder Morgan shows up near dead, needing Harry's help. He's been falsely accused of murder and comes to the one man he knows will understand. Ironic, since he's the one who wanted to execute Harry. But Harry believes him and hides him, only to discover that the conspiracy against Morgan goes further than the Council. And Harry's going to need all the help he can get to save Morgan, himself, and Thomas, who's been taken hostage by a malevolent skinwalker. Cool stuff.
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