The Fallen by David Baldacci

 The Fallen (Memory Man Series, 4) Paperback – September 11, 2018

by David Baldacci (Author)

4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (61,510) 4.2 on Goodreads 74,611 ratings

Book 4 of 7: Amos Decker

Baldacci does a superb job in providing his protagonist with very human foibles. Amos is not omnipotent, nor is he a superhero, he is a flawed almost anti-hero struggling to do the best he can with what he is. This is a great series that I highly recommend.

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Star FBI detective Amos Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison must solve four increasingly bizarre murders in a dying rust belt town--and the closer they come to the truth, the deadlier it gets in this rapid-fire #1 New York Times bestseller.

Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes--obscure bible verses, odd symbols--have the police stumped.

Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex's sister and her family. It's a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene.

Then the next killing hits sickeningly close to home. And with the lives of people he cares about suddenly hanging in the balance, Decker begins to realize that the recent string of deaths may be only one small piece of a much larger scheme--with consequences that will reach far beyond Baronville.

Decker, with his singular talents, may be the only one who can crack this bizarre case. Only this time--when one mistake could cost him everything--Decker finds that his previously infallible memory may not be so trustworthy after all...

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Simply Lies: A Psychological Thriller Paperback by David Baldacci

Simply Lies: A Psychological Thriller Paperback by David Baldacci (Author)

4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (40,755) 4.0 on Goodreads 55,545 ratings

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 6:20 Man comes a twisting psychological thriller in which two women—one a former detective, the other a dangerous con artist—go head-to-head in an electrifying game of cat and mouse.

Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life similar to that of many moms: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats.  

When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson, she thinks nothing of Arlene’s unusual request for her to go inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who cheated ProEye’s clients and fled. That is, until she arrives at the mansion and discovers a dead body in a secret room—and nothing is as it seems.
  
Not only does the arms dealer not exist, but the murder victim turns out to be Harry Langhorne, a man with mob ties who used to be in Witness Protection. What’s more, no one named Arlene Robinson works at ProEye.  

In the blink of an eye, Gibson has become a prime suspect in a murder investigation—and now her job is on the line until she proves that she was set up. Before long, Gibson is locked in a battle of wits with a brilliant woman with no name, a hidden past, and unknown motives—whose end game is as mysterious as it is deadly.  

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THE OBSESSIONS OF HARVEY USHER by David Putnam

 

This was a good tale but there was too much bouncing back and forth from the past to the present.  It was easy to get lost.  The fact that it was a good story was the only thing that kept me reading it.   Harvey is a poor soul pulled into the world of t thuggery and mayhem.

Stereotypical accountant, Harvey, discovers love, loses love, finds pain and humiliation, and searches for redemption.

Some entertaining characters move the story along.  Rita is a temptress, and Harvey’s wife, or is she?  Ester, Lisette, Eddie, Jackie the nose, assorted thugs, country club folks, and beautiful women are all sautéed in a sauce of treachery, abuse, and perfidy. 

I enjoyed the book. 

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Sea Change by Susan Fletcher

Sea Change by Susan Fletcher

This is a coming of age story in the age of genetic manipulation.  Turtle was born differently by illegal genetic manipulation by her parents.   She is part of a community of different young people who have been  abandoned by their parents. The story deals with her attempted reintegration with her family.

Turtle meets Kai in a diving accident when both are scavenging.  The scene is set in a future where global warming is inundating low islands and coastlines.  Turtle has many longings, some for family and some for love.

You meet her friends and frenemies. Some are born differently, and some are normal.  The parental urge to provide their children a step above the competition leads to illegal genetic manipulations and some sad results.

The book has some romance but nothing graphic so it is suitable for younger readers.

I enjoyed it and recommend it.

This is an interesting look at our future. 

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Fleet Landing by Wendy Gee

First of all, Fleet Landing is a neighborhood.  It sounds like a military thing but it is about firefighters, criminal urbanization, greed, street gangs, racism, and injustice.

Sydney Quinn, an on-air, intrepid television reporter, finds an unexpected ally in ATF Agent Cooper Bellamy. Together, Coop and Sydney tackle the incessant fires in Fleet Landing, only to discover that layers of deceit and corruption are fueling the fires.

There is plenty of action and some romance in this book.

I enjoyed it. 

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