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Classic in the Barn

Classic Cars and Crazy Crimes Author: Amy Myers Jack Colby runs a forever-in-the-red car restoring business, a leftover from his father’s heyday. To make ends meet and keep his shady competitors from buying him out, Jack also does some work on cold-car cases, mostly by helping the police track car theft rings. One day, as he is going about business, he runs into a 1938 Lagonda V12, hidden in a country barn. Overwhelmed with car love, he jumps a fence, does a little trespassing, and is just inspecting the forlorn beauty with her sad headlights when the enraged owner shows up [...]

Frances Carden2024-12-07T15:16:08-07:00December 7th, 2024|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, mystery, read, reading|

Dark Corners

The Dark Side of Social Media Author: Megan Goldin A beloved van-life influencer, Maddison Logan, has vanished. Suspected serial killer Terrance Bailey was the last person to see her. Why did she visit him in jail? What did she say to him during their tense meeting, and why did she recommend that he contact true-crime podcaster Rachel Krall? With the killer soon to finish his sentence, police are clamoring for more evidence to keep this dangerous man off the streets and find out how he is connected to Maddison’s disappearance. They have long suspected that he did not act alone. With [...]

Frances Carden2024-12-01T20:29:41-07:00December 1st, 2024|Tags: book review, read, reading, thriller|

Walking Him Home: Helping My Husband Die With Dignity

Walking Him Home: Helping My Husband Die With Dignity Author: Joanne Tubbs Kelly Love, like illness, is often sudden and complicated. With four failed marriages behind them, Alan and Joanne hardly expected to find each other. Joanne was divorced, living on her own for the first time, in a new job. Alan, her boss, had recently been abandoned by his wife. It was the beginning of a deep, lasting affair of the heart. It was also the beginning of a painful journey that would end on January 11, 2020, with Alan sitting in bed, drinking a cocktail of medicines designed to [...]

Frances Carden2024-11-25T18:02:25-07:00November 25th, 2024|Tags: book review, colorado, medical aid in dying, memoir, read, reading|