Read 100 more pages in THE CODE BREAKER

 

In this section Jennifer and friends/ associates try to go commercial, that is start a company to look for medical applications for CRISPR.  They had with mixed results.  Part of the problem was that at first nobody knew what it was and no one wanted to invest.  Then, of course as it became understood, everyone wanted to claim credit and/or beat Jennifer to the market. 

I have now started Deadly Fate, another Krewe of Hunters novel by Heather Graham.  The trick to this title is that some of the characters are actors in a play that will be performed on the cruise ship, "Fate."  The ship is anchored in Seward, Alaska, where two young women have been killed--horribly.

Finished BRIGHT SEASON

 

Of course there are complications.  In the first place, Melinda is navigating a new romance, renovating her house, running her drought-ridden farm, and working full time.  I don't know when she finds time to go to the bathroom.  Add finding some letters that gets the whole Schermman family concerned about Horace, and...well, darn that drought!  I have enjoyed the first 6 books of this series, that I just ordered the last four and the first 2 in a new mystery series by this author.  Although the publisher of this series says it is in DE Moines, Iowa, the last page in the book says Coppell, TX.  It is the Y in Coppell, TX, where TR and I attend water aerobics classes.  Could she live right here???

I am now about to head back to The Code Breaker.  The subject of this book, Doudna, was behind the vaccine for Covid.  Though it is fairly technical and gives me a headache occasionally, I have read enough of Robin Cook to have some idea of how stunning results of splitting (cutting and pasting) parts of DNA can be.

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.

Finished MURDER IN THE FIRST EDITION

 

The story follows the same formula as the Hallmark mysteries on the HMM channel,  which I am a fan of.  There are some interesting characters and relationships here, that I will enjoy seeing resolved, if the series continues.  I still have the first two books to read, so it will be awhile before I read the continuation.  I enjoyed this one, even though formulaic.  It was relaxing.

I have now started The Long Hot Summoning by long time favorite of mine, Tanya Huff.  This is the third (and last) of her Keeper series.  It is unusual and inventive.  As this one starts Diana, (our first keeper's younger sister) returns from her last day of high school and receives her first summoning.  She takes one look at the problem and decides she needs her sister's help.  Hurray, old characters and new come together.