Sunday, October 23, 2022

Finished A CRY IN THE NIGHT

 


When I first started this book I thought the opening sounded familiar, but I'd never recorded it in my notebook or on Goodreads.  Then just before I got half-way through, I was sure I knew how it would end, so I skipped to about the third last chapter when I read that the sheriff of the town said something about agreeing with Jenny.  With that much comfort, I went back and read the rest.  It is a cautionary tale, for certain and definitely frightening. 

I have now started The Visitant by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear.  I've read a number of books by these authors and all begin with an archeologist finding something that will be important in the story when we go back it time.  But, once in the past we have stayed there.  Now, I think, this series will be going back and forth between the present archeologists and the past Anasazi, showing how the spiritualism effects both.  Getting into it is slow....



Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Finished ALCHEMYSTIC

 


A spellmason it seems is one who enchants stone to life.  A handy talent but also one you would not want used against you.  This supernatural talent is one I have not encountered before and, like Strout's Simon Canderous books, is highly inventive.

I have now started A Cry in the Night, an older book by Mary Higgins Clark.  It was hard for me to believe after the author's death that there were still so many of her books I've not read.  I have no idea how I missed this one.



Saturday, October 1, 2022

Finished PERIL IN THE PARK

 


Short mystery set in Miami.  Some young adult angst and secret keeping complicates the action.

I have now started reading Alchemistic by Anton Strout.  This is the first book in a new series.  Alexandra's brother is dead (assumed because only his hand grasping his cell phone has been found), murdered (assumed because...the above.) Our heroine is being forced into her family's real estate business, though she'd prefer to just practice her art (sculpture.)