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Rainmaker, The

The Everyman vs Big Insurance Author: John Grisham Rudy Baylor is about to graduate law school. The world is his oyster. He already has a decent job lined up – unlike many of his fellow graduates who are still hitting the pavement, desperate for work in a city already swamped by eager lawyers. The only blights on his perfect horizon are the impending bar exam and his dull senior semester, working with a radical do-gooder professor who is invested in senior law. Said professor is making them take their first swing at lawyering by providing free advice and work to the [...]

2025-12-22T17:55:20-07:00October 29th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The

First in a New Cozy Mystery Series Author: Lilian Jackson Braun Jim Qwilleran has recently joined The Daily Fluxion, and as their newest reporter, he is immediately out of his depth, stuck in the art critic section. While he enjoys a good juice at the local press club, and a good complaint with coworkers, he realizes that he has fallen into the ominous shadow of the much hated main art critic for the paper – George Bonifield Mountclemens. What the weedy Mountclemens lacks in charisma, he makes up for with a poison pen. Mountclemens has sent many an aspiring artist into [...]

2022-10-01T16:41:15-07:00October 1st, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Something Borrowed, Someone Dead

Something Borrowed, Someone Murdered Author: M.C. Beaton Agatha is bored, and that is always a dangerous thing. The recession has lessened her caseload to the point that even the bemoaned missing pets and adulterous spouse cases are absent. There is no potential love interest on the horizon, and worst of all, Agatha is trying to give up smoking. At first, a strange and violent murder in the nearby village of Piddlebury seems like something to break up the tedium. But soon, Agatha becomes afraid of her own case as the bodies start to stack up. It began with Gloria French, a [...]

2022-09-25T17:32:16-07:00September 25th, 2022|Tags: , |
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