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Haunted Bridge, The

Nancy Makes a Mistake . . . Author: Carolyn Keene In their 15th adventure, Nancy and friends are once again torn between crime, leisure, and competitive sports. While helping her attorney father, who spends more time trailing crime than keeping law and order in the courtroom, Nancy arrives at Deer Mountain Lodge. This time, Carson Drew is helping the FBI chase down a dangerous international ring of jewel thieves. Nancy, with her calm ability to have one look at someone and tell their character, is helping to scope out potential suspects from the local hotels and lodges. While doing this, she [...]

Frances Carden2025-02-24T16:33:57-07:00February 24th, 2025|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, mystery, Nancy Drew, read, reading|

There There

“The city made us new, and we made it ours.” Author: Tommy Orange Starting off like a short story collection and then weaving together into something more, There There is a loose affiliation of 12 broken lives, spiraling together around a doomed event: the Big Oakland Powwow. Each character is connected in two ways: they are Native American, and they are either going to the powwow or somehow involved in it. For some, the powwow is a near mystical moment, evoking potential reconnection, whether that be with a person or with a culture. For some, it’s a means to an end: [...]

Frances Carden2025-02-23T20:54:57-07:00February 23rd, 2025|Tags: book review, read, reading|

Day of the Door, The

Murder Behind Closed Doors Author: Laurel Hightower The Lasco siblings were torn apart by their mother, Stella, and her evil, her abuse, and the day when she took their 17-year-old brother behind a door and beat him to death with a baseball bat. After that, the authorities came, separated them, took her away, and yet, somehow, never quite found her guilty. Self-defense, she claimed. Shawn was suicidal, a creature driven by rage. A troubled teen. He was the violent one. Twenty years later though, as the remaining siblings have come together, each left with nightmares and troubles, Stella says that now [...]

Frances Carden2025-02-18T18:10:27-07:00February 18th, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, Laurel Hightower, read, reading|