Destiny the girl who loved rocks by William G. Bentrim, The Trailer

Autopsy by Patricia Cornwell

Scarpetta is back as the medical examiner for the state of Virginia.   I must have missed a couple of books in between.   Marino, Lucy, Benton are still in the picture but with different roles and many life changes.  A serial killer and a spy are the focus of the investigation.

This did not seem as tightly wrapped as I remember the Scarpetta books being.   I felt that some things were left open or assumed.  There was action and intrigue but I felt the characters could have been fleshed out a bit.  A good example is Lucy but it appears that some serious stuff happened in recent books that has changed things.   I like Cornwell so I’m going to have to go find the books I missed.

I recommend the book.

 

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Destiny The Girl Who Loved Dragons by William G. Bentrim, A new Trailer

The Gaylord WACS by Harriet Green Robinson

This book follows Harriet Green as she joins the WACS and goes through WWII.

This book read like a personal note that Harriet Green might have written to you the reader.  She shows the frustration of wanting to make a difference and being thwarted by her gender.   She ends up successfully going overseas and feeling like she might have made a difference.   Green shows the disparities between the way men and women were treated by the armed services.   The inclusion as a roommate of a WAC of color as Green mustered out was pointed to a positive change.

Things like the reaction she and her peers had with the death of Roosevelt were new to me.  I was unaware of that veneration.  Green demonstrated the resiliency and the ambition of women who were not willing to settle with staying in their “place”. 

I enjoyed the book. 

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The Accidental Suffragist by Galia Gichon

It’s not often I read a book that moves me.  Sure I read lots of enjoyable and entertaining books but this book is moving.  I taught history for a period of history.   Don’t get me started on the Afghan debacle and why we didn’t learn a darn thing from history but I digress.  Gichon brought to life the enormous difficulties faced by a “normal” member of society in supporting the Suffragist movement.  Privileged women faced difficulties but a factory working woman, a hundred years ago, endured far more.   Women today still face the pig-headed stubbornness of misogyny but our grandmothers faced worse.

In spite of being reasonably well read, I found my self shaking my head at working conditions a century plus 20 ago.  Gichon successfully portrayed those conditions.  In addition she showed that all men of that time were not misogynists but it appears a sad majority were.  Albert, although horribly flawed, was less so than the bulk of his peers.  

Kudos for Gichon for writing the book and doing it so well.   I’d like to take a time machine back and determine how my male relatives behaved in that time period and kick some butt if that behavior needed adjustment. 

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Treachery Times Two by Robert McCaw

Koa Kane is back.  Koa is the Chief Detective in Hilo, Hawaii.   Koa has secrets of his own, let alone the ones he tries to pry from miscreants.   This time Koa is involved in murder and espionage.

Koa’s girlfriend is Nalani, a park ranger.   She provided stability to Koa’ inherently moody personality.   A volcanic eruption triggers a murder mystery which then triggers an espionage investigation.  Koa’s secret, threatens his well being and even his career as a life long friend’s duplicity threatens him.

There is action, subterfuge, friendship, regret, guilt, honor and trust all carefully blended into another excellent Koa Kane tale.

I highly recommend all of them. 

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Decision: The Jake Littleton Series by Whit Gentry.

Too bad this is the final book in the Jake Littleton series, I’ve enjoyed them. Once again the topic is kidnapping.  This time there is an interesting twist with the victim.  

Jake, his two sidekicks, and Joan their very well-connected pilot are tasked with the rescue of a somewhat fragile surgeon.   The surgeon’s wife, however, makes up for his fragility with surprising strength.

There is also a twist with the kidnappers.  

Gentry keeps the plot moving forward with twists, turns, and whimsy.  I particularly liked the kind-hearted and talented veterinarian.

I recommend the book. 

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Cold Consequences by David Rohlfing

This is a Sasha Frank mystery.  Detective Frank is the senior detective at the Bloomington Police Department, near Chicago.  Ashley Cummins succumbed to the allure of street drugs when she was unable to get her pain killer prescriptions refilled.  This led to her murder.

Sasha and his partner, Darcie, found themselves investigating a murder that continued to escalate throughout the book.  The plot was intricate and plausible.  The death of a child, regardless of age, can lead family down dark paths.  

Rohlfing did a great job in keeping the action moving and the end result hidden until the very end.

I enjoyed the book.

 

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