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Hey Dawn I am finally reading Come, Thou Tortoise I also started Silent Scream (D.I. Kim Stone #1)
by Angela Marsons which is a first in the series thriller. It is also 99 cents for kindle owners if you are interested. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-silent-scream
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Hey Dawn I am finally reading Come, Thou Tortoise
You are?!?! I'm so excited for you!!!
It's a tough book to find, sometimes. It's from a small publishing house, and a Canadian one at that. I have a total of ZERO* books in paper -- every time I move, I donate more of them. Prior to my last move, I donated the last of them and, inadvertently, included Come, Thou Tortoise in that bunch. It's on my shopping list to buy another. I always meant to always keep that book. Luckily for me, it's in stock in my local bookstore. One of the (few) perks of being Canadian.
*I take that back; I stand corrected. I have The Tennis Partner in paper. I'd just recently ordered it. I will, however, donate it when I'm finished reading it.
Being a tiny bit anal about resading series, I set aside "The Third Victim" to read the earier work "The Perfect Husband." It looks as though October will be Lisa Gardener month for me!
Being a tiny bit anal about resading series, I set aside "The Third Victim" to read the earier work "The Perfect Husband." It looks as though October will be Lisa Gardener month for me!
I like her books and prefer to read series in order too.
I recently reread, in order, the entire Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters. It's one of my all time favorites. I guess I'd characterize the series as mystery with a little romance thrown in (but no graphic sex scenes). It's not exactly a "cozy mystery" series but it's close. The books take place in the late 1880s through 1925 and center around Amelia and her family who are Egyptologists. A good deal of the books take place in Egypt. The author (who also wrote as Barbara Michaels) had a PhD in Egyptology so the information about the Egyptian civilization is accurate.
If you like historical mysteries, it's a very good series. The books are stand alone so you don't have to read them in order but I think it's better if you do. If anyone is interested, the first book is The Crocodile on the Sandbank. https://www.amazon.com/Crocodile-San.../dp/1455572357
Now I'm going to put the Eleanor book on my list. I've always said that I thought being killed by a large carnivore would be the way to go. It would be quick and you'd never feel more alive than at that very last minute when you realized what was going on.
I think being eaten by a large carnivore is overrated. A neighbour had a zoo and a lion I got to see close up. And I grew up around bulls and when they swing their heads into your direction and start pawing the ground, it's a little hard to describe the feeling but it wasn't quite being very alive. It was more like you discovered just how fast you could run. I had repetitive nightmares as a kid in which a bull would be after me and at the last possible moment I would fly to the top of a fence post.
I think being eaten by a large carnivore is overrated. A neighbour had a zoo and a lion I got to see close up. And I grew up around bulls and when they swing their heads into your direction and start pawing the ground, it's a little hard to describe the feeling but it wasn't quite being very alive. It was more like you discovered just how fast you could run. I had repetitive nightmares as a kid in which a bull would be after me and at the last possible moment I would fly to the top of a fence post.
Ugh. 14% into The Perfect Husband and it had to go. Mostly for the writing. The content didn't help. Back to The Third Victim.
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I also started Silent Scream (D.I. Kim Stone #1)
