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Amazon First Read.  Started on 7/5/26.  The day before my birthday.  I finished it on 7/17/26.  12 days.
Characters were well written and chapters were fairly short.  I knew who everyone was.  I could picture them.
I didn’t care for the story though.  She dragged on and on without getting to the “meat” quickly enough for me.
It was definitely a plausible story but it was to “feely” for me.

Imaging your spouse dying and 9 months later you find a letter from them claiming they’ve done something so terrible they couldn’t tell you or the kids.
Would you track down what it was or “let sleeping dogs lie”?  Well she had to track down what it was.  I had so many theories about what it could have been and the writer gives it away (or most of it) with a reveal in the middle of the book.  So we kind of know what the secret is but the last 2 chapters wrap it all up.

Giving this book a 6 out of 10.

Started this book on 6/20/26.  The chapters are well written so far and examples seem to be useful.

I’ll let you know when I finish.
I finished this book on 7/4/26.  Yep July 4th.  In DC waiting for fireworks that night!

It gets me how lame I am with some of the techniques he’s writing about.  Using the same password.  I’m guilty of that.

Great book anyway and I watched the movie too.  He’s pretty cool

Giving this book a 9.5/10 because it interested me.

Just finished Naked Prey.  Starting this book on 6/10/26.  Never read this author.  Amazon First Read.  Story line looks fine.

Finished this book on 6/20/26.  10 days.  Great book.  Kept my interest the whole way.  Characters are very well written and chapters were short.

Imagine being dropped off on a remote island and walking right into the middle of a family feud.  Then finding money in the ocean.  Then meeting some weird light house keepers.  Yep, the “Storm of the Century” is coming as well.  How do you get out of that trouble?

You’ll have to read the book to find out.

Giving this book a 9/10.  It’s memorable.

Started on 5/26/26.  Back to my old buddy Lucas Davenport.  Him and Weather have moved into the new house with the new baby.
Finished on 6/10/26.  15 Days.  Not to bad for a Davenport book.

Lucas gets called up to northern Minnesota to 2 bodies lynched and naked.  He takes Del with him.  Cold and without much to go on they have to wait for more things to unfold.  Enter Letty.  The young girl who Lucas uses for information at first then gets a soft spot in his heart for her.  Letty’s mom gets murdered and her house burned up.  They catch the killer and Lucas gets his guy.

Chapters (just like most Sandford books) are long.  Characters get kind of jumbled in this story but the star characters really shine.

I’m giving this one an 8/10

Started on 5/20/26.  I love her writing! Finished on 5/26/26.  6 days.

I couldn’t put this book down.  From the very first page & chapter it hooks you in.
The son, a quiet straight A student has a dark side.  His new girlfriend goes missing and he’s getting the blame by everyone.  Most of the time even his mother blames him.  The cops arrest him with some weak evidence and testimony from some of his early teachers.
Did he do it?  You’ll have to read it to find out.

Chapters were short, characters very well written.  Giving this book a 10/10.

Amazon first read.  Started on 5/11/26.  245 pages.  Looked good so I thought I’d try it.

Edison Bixby.  Detective.  Shot in face.  Lived.  Needed a side kick to continue to work.
Grant Murdock.  Executive chef, narcissist and playboy.  Drops dead from his Gumbo recipe at a big event.
Bridget McGregor.  Detective.

Finished 5/20/26.  Really good book.  Main characters well written.  Names got confusing later in the book but mysteries were still solved.
I will read the other books that come out in this series.

9 Days.  I’m giving this book a 9/10.  It kept my interest.

Started on 5/1/26.  This was TikTok recommended best book.
I’m 22 chapters into the book.  It took a while to get to the “meat” but now that I’m there I don’t want to stop reading.

I’ll let you know when I finish.

Finished on 5/10/26.  9 Days!!
The meat of the book was great.  It ended to early though.  The exciting part came to a head and there was still 30% of the book left.

Twists and turned for that last 30% though.  The “why” became known and the “who” wrapped up.

The Hackers hijacked 8 autonomous cars and told the world that they would crash and burn in 2 hours.  Some of them didn’t make it the whole 2 hours.  The ones that did, did they burn?  Who are the hackers?  Why are they causing chaos on the streets of England?
You’ll have to read it to find out why.

Chapters were short (ish) and characters were well written.  I knew who almost everyone was.  Could picture them.
Giving this book an 8/10

I started this book on 4/21/26 and hope to finish by EOM.

So far I like it.  I’m about 5 chapters in.  Finished on 4/28/26.  7 days.

You lose 2 complete days of your memory.  You show up to a job that you haven’t had in 5 years.  It’s called a “Fugue State”.
To fill in the missing pieces you hire a P.I.  Strange things start to happen and people end up dead.

I didn’t really care for it.  It was certainly a female book.  Maybe they would get it.  To many “feelings” and “Inner dialouge” for me.
It kept my attention and I finished it but it wasn’t great IMO.
Giving this one a 5/10