Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Never mind Ms O’Leary’s Cow

The Fifth Floor by Micheal Harvey

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cbrbingo   cbrbingo17 red cbrbingo17 Red Michael Kelly, ex-cop and private investigator, is looking for a little information, and sources don’t get better than Fred Jacobs of the tribune.  Let’s meet Fred. Fred was six feet two and weighed slightly less than your average house cat.  He was chasing sixty with . . . a head of black hair the color and consistency of shoe leather. . . .  Fred was a life-long bachelor.  Suffice it to say, he didn’t get a lot of chicks.  […]

Brainwarp Time

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

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cbr17bingo Rec’d I was gifted and recommended this book by someone who told me there would be surprises and not all was as it would appear to be.  So I started reading it carefully, trying to put together the pieces, but it then started to be clear that I was being misdirected left and right. We start off with four strangers in the Reading Room of the Boston Public Library, sharing a table and peacefully minding their own business, when there is a sudden scream […]

Real Housewives of Fort Benning

The Wives: A Memoir by Simone Gorrindo

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cbr17bingo Purple Simone is a New Yorker who has just landed her dream job, as an editor.  And now maybe she will have some time to devote to her own writing projects, too.  Her husband, on the other hand, has different plans.  He has joined an elite Army combat unit, and is looking forward to doing his share by shipping out to Afghanistan.  But it’s all good, right, because she can work from home, at whatever Army base home ends up being.  All right, let’s […]

Nobody Asked the Zebra

Bad Little Falls by Paul Doiron

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cbr17 B Oh, look.  Here’s another series I have gotten sucked into.  Fortunately, it started about 15 years ago, so I’ve got plenty more coming up to enjoy.  And unlike my precious Perry Mason, these all seem to be available at my local library, so that’s a good thing. Well, it looks like Mike Bowditch, Maine game warden, has been sent into exile for the crime of not paying much attention to his bosses, and having the uncanny ability to turn over murders in the […]

Maisie Dobbs and the Case of the Dubious Highlighter

Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqqueline Winspear

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cbr17bingo Family Back in the day, I read quite a few Maisie Dobbs books, and thoroughly enjoyed them.  The first I read was Birds of a Feather, bought purely because of its wonderfully evocative cover art, and then went back to read the first of the series, and any others I could find in book stores.  She went off my radar for awhile, but she is definitely back on again now. The period is post WWI Britain up until the 1930s.  Maisie signed up as […]

Smooth Like Buttah

The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey

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cbrgingo17 Borrow The jacket blurb informed me that Michael Harvey was to Chicago as Raymond Chandler was to Los Angeles.  Cannot personally verify, at least for the Chicago part, but sure seems to be true.  It definitely applies to Chander’s Los Angeles. Michael Kelly, private investigator/ex-cop, gets a case from his former partner on the force.  It’s an eight-year old cold rape and battery case, but it turns out that his old partner was told to forget it ever happened.  And now when that partner […]



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