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Silent Patient, The

Fun, but Ultimately Just Another Thriller Author: Alex Michaelides Alicia Berenson was an up-and-coming artist. Now, she’s a silent patient at The Grove where a team of psychotherapists have worked for many years to find out why she shot her husband and why she hasn’t spoken since. Her only testament is a creepy, surrealistic picture that Theo Faber, the new psychotherapist, is convinced holds the clue to both the brutal murder and Alicia’s silence. Theo is betting his career on making a breakthrough with Alicia, and as his own personal life devolves, his silent patient beckons with the hint of a [...]

2021-07-27T17:01:06-07:00July 27th, 2021|Tags: , , , |

Old Curiosity Shop

Another Heart Rending Masterpiece Author: Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop is a powerful story of people: greed, addiction, innocence, evil, happiness in the midst of dire circumstances, ruinous dreams of wealth, and all the life and sorrow that happens in between. As with any Dickens tale, the characters are vibrant, both absurd in their extremities and recognizable in their very humanness, saints and sinners side by side in the drama of life and the pain of relationship. By Joseph Clayton Clarke (1857-1937) - Scanned from a print in my collection, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47402402 It begins with the Grandfather [...]

2021-07-25T21:34:25-07:00July 25th, 2021|Tags: , |

Happy Never After

60s Music, Vendettas, Girl Bands, and Murder Author: Kathy Hogan Trocheck In Happy Never After, Callahan Garrity, a retired (read failed) police investigator and owner of House Mouse cleaning service, takes on a case in her free-time. It’s not her usual side-case, but friends and family want her to find out whatever happened to the long-missing member of the 60s girl group, VelvetTeens, so that they can participate in a successful (and lucrative) reunion. When a missing person’s case becomes a murder case, however, Callahan is going to need all the help (and not-entirely-legal schemes) she can get. Will the crazed [...]

2025-05-13T03:42:44-07:00July 24th, 2021|Tags: , |
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