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Sunday, March 24, 2024

 Finished: That's Not My Name (Lally) Another good mystery about a girl who wakes up injured in a ditch and doesn't remember who she is or how she got there. The local police officer of the small town takes her to the station and looks for hours through missing person reports trying to find her. He's about to call it a night when a frantic man shows up looking for his daughter, Mary. He's got pictures of them together and even her birth certificate. Though still skeptical, the officer takes her up to the secluded cabin that the man says they are staying at while their home is renovated. The girl doesn't recognize the man, but agrees to stay because he is acting so much like a panicked father, and is very kind to her. Meanwhile a few hours down the coast, a teenage boy, Drew, is being accused of murdering his girlfriend, Lola, who has been missing for five weeks. The entire town has turned on him and are begging him to tell the truth and reveal where her body is and what happened. Drew works frantically with his best friend, and Lola's best friend (who finally comes around to believing Drew) to discover exactly what has happened to Lola and find her before anything horrible can happen. A very good book that kept me reading and guessing until the end! 

 Finished: The Resemblance (Nossett) A pretty good page-turner about a detective, Marlitt Kaplan, who grew up on the University of Georgia campus where her mother was the dean. She knows the university inside and out, and is the detective on call when a popular fraternity boy is run down by a car at a crosswalk. Witnesses say the car sped up, and what's more...the driver looked identical to the dead boy! So begins an investigation of the Greek system at the university, along with the sons of many prominent locals, who themselves had been members. Add to that that Marlitt has her own past demons from her first year of attending Georgia that also involves the same fraternity!  A good one. :-)

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Finished: Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six (Unger) A good page-turner about three couples who go for a weekend to a beautiful secluded cabin, only to be stuck there by a raging storm, and at the same time, unknowingly stalked by a dangerous person. Hannah and her husband, Bruce, have been married for awhile and have a baby daughter. When Hanna's high-tech "mogul" brother, Miko, insists that they, along with his wife Liza, and Hannah's best friend, Cricket and her new boyfriend, Joshua, join him at the expensive rental, secrets and demons are soon exposed. Is there still something between high school sweethearts Miko and Cricket? Why is Liza so distraught to be pregnant after two miscarriages? What kind of work does Bruce do for Miko that he can't share with Hannah? Are Miko's past deeds going to come back to haunt them all as the stalker closes in? Or, is Miko in danger from family connections that he's not even aware of? Bracken, the owner and caretaker of the cabin, is mysterious and a little bit suspicious. Then, every so often there is a chapter about Henry, who was orphaned as a young boy, but still managed to make something of himself. He must inevitably be connected to one of the other characters, but how? The book stays suspenseful as everything comes to a head with the deranged stalker there to do harm to whoever gets in the way of his/her mission! The perfect read for a couple of long airplane rides heading to vacation. :-)