Finished BENEATH THE AMARILLO PLAINS

 

OK, well while I still think that being brain damaged would be terrible, I am quite amazed at how this young man could channel or shut down some parts of his brain to help the damaged section.  He was getting much of his language facility back, though listening and responding took effort and time and caused excruciating headaches.  But he and a friend were able endure the danger to solve the mystery...  I continue to love this author.

I have now started the sixth book in Malanie Lageschulte's saga of Melinda's move from city life to her own farm in a tiny Iowa town.  She met someone in the last book who she has begun dating.

                                               

 

Finished THE SPIDER'S WEB

 

Another mystery in which both John and Vicky were involved, but other characters solved it.  This ended a bit suspensefully but also a little slowly and even then a loose string was left.  I'm wondering if it will turn up in a later novel.  Once again, great characters and environment held my interest as well as the murders.  I enjoy this series.

I have now started Beneath the Amarillo Plains.  This is subtitled Jeff Kale, Brain Damaged Detective.  Henry Melton usually writes science fiction, which is what I love him for.  But this looks like a mystery, with a monkey wrench thrown in.  Someone was chasing Jeff and his friend and bumping into them, which caused the accident that has resulted in his brain damage, taking away his language center.   He has no idea who was chasing them...

Finishe PIECE OF MY HEART

 

And, unfortunately, this is the last of the Under Suspicion novels.  I am very sorry to see them go.  I have enjoyed them.  This was a little different from the others in that the tv show was a means to an end rather than an end in itself.  If it was Clark's last novel, it is a fitting one...

I have now begun The Spider's Web, another Wind River Mystery by Margaret Coel.  It has started with a double murder--looking like a home invasion, and the people who found the dead are too afraid to report it, thinking they will be blamed...  So, who will report it?

Finished LONG HOT SUMMONING

 

After reading Tanya Huff's Blood series and Smoke series, I looked for more books by this author.  All I found was the Valor series, which I didn't think I was interested in.  It turns out there is more out there in the minds of fantasy authors than just Vampires.  It seems that Hell (or something much like it) is constantly trying to break into our world.  Keepers protect us from that.  When a breach shows up in the world, a Keeper is summoned.  Well, this time it is a mall--the other side has taken over one of the stores and is expanding.  Claire's younger sister has just graduated from high school and is summoned for this one.  She quickly figures out she can't do this alone, so gets her sister.  I have read all three of the Summoning novels and want more.  Maybe I am ready to tackle the Valor series now.

I have now started  Piece of my Heart, an Under Suspicion novel by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke.  The copyright date is 2020, so this must be one of Clark's last books.  I was happy to see a book in this series I have not read.  As it starts, Laurie has lost the next cold case in her series because two of the important subjects have backed out.  She, Alex, and their families go to Long Island for Alex's birthday where, almost immediately, Alex's 7 year old nephew is kidnapped.