To Say Goodbye by David Wiskircher

The first book I read from this author was  A Healing Way .  It is a cathartic angst for pain.   The book provided  a hopeful outlook on love,death, dying and grief.  This is an action adventure book that is nothing like the preceding book.  This book focuses on a strong woman who strives to find her man through political peril and drug corruption. 

Claire Kittredge is the protagonist in this book although Alex Drew becomes a meaningful friend.   The story encompasses current events by addressing corruption in our own government as well as foreign semi-adversaries.  There  is a distinct distrust of bureaucracy leavened with a good helping of cynicism or a fatal realism, it is difficult to know.

There is plenty of action, some violence but not overwhelming to the plot.

I recommend this book.  

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A Healing Way: Two Dogs, a Coyote and an Old Soul by David Wiskircher

This is a moving book.   The author shares his personal feelings and grief  over the loss of his own wife through fiction.  A Healing Way was is a cathartic angst for pain.   The book provides such a hopeful outlook on love, death, dying and grief. I have to admit that I thought about my Dad and Mom's passing as I read it.  I am also fortunate enough to have a soul mate that equally promoted emotions the author shared.  The author has a gift in his ability to elicit thoughts and emotions by the power of his words. Kudos! 

The story focus is on two wayward puppies helped through difficult circumstances by a coyote.  The juxtaposition of their dire needs and a lonely, heartbroken man is done seamlessly.  Life from the point of view of a dog and a coyote is substantially different from man while sharing similar emotions.

I highly recommend this book.  

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Never Forget!

The Drafter by Kim Harrison

I am one of the rare individuals who could not get into the Rachel Morgan stories.  Maybe it was my mood or the cycle of the moon or bad karma but I just was shocked that I didn't like those books.  Imagine my surprise when I liked The Drafter!  This book is about time shifting, memory and corruption. 

Harrison did a very good character portrayal in Peri Reed.   The unrealistic time shifting or drafting was balanced out by the very realistic feelings portrayed by Peri Reed.   My favorite character was Taf.  It was interesting to see the relationship with her mother.  Howard also was an interesting character.  His loyalty and guts contradicted his initial or perhaps secondary description.

There is action and intrigue and some confusion regarding just who are the  "bad" guys.  

I enjoyed the book.

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Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

I've read books from each of these authors separately and I have read books that they have collaborated together for the story.   Each are good separately but together they are excellent.   This story is a follow up to Relic but it  stands alone just fine.  Dapper FBI agent Pendergast is the only consistent re-occurring character I recall from their books.   Someone or something is preying on the "mole" people , the homeless who live in the labyrinth of tunnels that hide under NYC.   When a prominent socialite is a victim, everything changes.

Preston and Child are masters at creating scenarios that are simultaneously bizarre and plausible.   I found the references to the myriad tunnels under NYC highly intriguing enough so that I spent a fair amount of time online reading about this wide spread phenomenon. 

This book has plenty of action, social commentary and thought provoking plot lines to attract a wide variety of readers.

I highly recommend.

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