Roadside Crosses  -  Jeffery Deaver

              "Guilty Pleasure"


Kathryn Dance is the detective who is tracking a killer.  The people in danger are the ones who are posting on a certain blog.  The killer finds them there and the puts up roadside crosses letting the police know that a murder will be happening.

As usual for a Deaver thriller, there are many twists and turns in the plot.  

               

Locked Rooms   -    Laurie R. King

       "Series"

Another good read by Ms. King.  This time we travel to San Francisco, ten years after the great fire of 1909.

Mary and Sherlock go there to settle Mary's family estate.  Memories she didn't know she had begin to return in this familiar setting and she learns many things about her parents she did not know.

As always a very entertaining book.

Between the Lines

Guilty Pleasure

Fun read, just what I needed!! This isn't your typical fairy tale, but it is Oh, so much fun!  I read this in only about a day's time and don't want to say too much as I don't want to give any of the fun away.   I'll definitely read the recently published sequel, "Off the Page"

In the Woods by Tana French

Debut Novel

This book covers multiple Toppling Bookpile topics for me: New Author, Series and Debut Novel.  In the Woods is Tana French's debut novel in a series that currently has 5 books in the Dublin Murder Squad.

I'd been looking forward to reading it, but was a bit disappointed.  Maybe it was because of my own frame of mind, but I found Rob Ryan to be a terribly stressful and distressing narrator.  The story seemed to drag out more than necessary especially because I had figured out the main culprit early on (contrary to the narrator's belief that "       fooled you too")

I will give the next book in a series a chance, in case it was my own mindset that caused me to be less than pleased with this debut.

Quote: "Every single society in the world, ever, has had some form of belief system.  But now...How many people do you know who're Christian - not just going to church, but actually Christian, like trying to do things the way Jesus would've?  And it's not like people can have faith in political ideologies  Our government doesn't even have an ideology, as far as anyone can tell-"