With Paul Mazursky, the director of the movie. An old man is evicted from his New York apartment, travels to visit his children in Chicago and California, meets interesting people, has revelations. A very touching story, must have been a great movie!
Jane quit her police detective job in Florida and moved back to the seaside Maine town she where she was born, but moved away at an early age. Her new marine insurace inspection job takes her to a fish packing plant and a number of boats. A body is discovered, and she decides to investigate to relieve the boredom of her new job.
I found the book interesting, but there some things that I thought an editor should have caught. For instance, on page 85 there is mention of previously seeing a document concerning "joint custody with right of survivorship". Darned if I can find that mentioning, either in the book or using Amazon.com Look Inside! Another is on page 250 where the police officers show up rather jarringly, to my mind.
Anyway, I enjoyed the book and will read others by her.
Private Investigator John Marshall Tanner tries to find out who wrote a manuscript that seems to describe sordid goings-on at a private school in San Francisco. Seventh book in series.
John Tanner goes to Seattle to help his friend Peggy find her fiance's daughter. Eleventh book in series.
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Mandy was naked on the bed, wearing only the diaphanous light from the moon, snoring like a long-haul trucker on a layover at Little America. Her baby-doll outfit was a wad of desperation next to the tattered pillow.
John Marshall Tanner is recovering from the last book (which I haven't read yet), then gets to investigate a murder in the strawberry farms of the Salinas valley. Pretty good, didn't expect who-done-it. Thirteenth book in series.
Divorce lawyer D.T. Jones handles a variety of divorce cases.
QUOTE:
Deep down, he recognized that he had never enjoyed sex quite as much as he had in the days when copping a feel in the drive-in was the highest achievement of his art... (pg. 70)
Read:
5/2001
Rosy Cole's Worst Ever Best Yet Tour Of New York City
Bail bondsman (and reluctant bounty hunter) CJ Hunter wants to know who almost killed him, and also is ferreting out the details of who is trying to kill Langston Blue. It seems to all be tied in to Langston's time in Vietnam.
Not a bad story, I might have to read some more of the books in this series. This seems to be the first one, according to his website.
Quote:
Jimmy Moc and parked the van in the midst of the acreage in order to replace its timing chain, radiator, and right headlight. -- (pg. 376)The timing chain? It got damaged after he ran into a tree (among other things!)?? And did he bring water for the new radiator? In the "midst of the acreage" doesn't sound like the place to do these kind of repairs.
Guy goes to Nepal for a couple month as a volunteer at an "orphanage", ends up dedicating himself to saving and reuniting them with their families. Very nicely written, I enjoyed reading it very much.
Well, it's not a pub, it's a nightclub. This was a pretty good read, but rather unsatisfying as we do not find out who-done-it, neither now, nor on the raft. I have some questions:
1. What happened to the chop? (pg. 140)
2. Was the finding of the gun mentioned before? (pg. 319)
3. Didn't the autopsy show that Billy did not eat anything? (pg. 320)
But, really, I enjoyed the book.
Words I Had To Look Up:::
past another line of oasthouses. (pg. 83) -- Building containing a kiln for drying hops.
in medias res (pg. 211) -- A Latin phrase denoting the literary and artistic narrative technique wherein the relation of a story begins either at the mid-point or at the conclusion, rather than at the beginning, establishing setting, character, and conflict via flashback and expository conversations relating the pertinent past.from Wikipedia. City of Benares (pg. 225) -- Seventy-seven children died in the sinking.
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Everyone in the bloody world smoked except him, chain-smoked, even. He wouldn't be surprised to see Mungo light up. (pg. 254) Mungo is a dog.
Emma Graham #1. Emma is twelve and lives at the hotel where her mother is cook, and possibly co-owner, or previous owner, a lot is not made clear. It is an interesting story, and very nicely written. It moves along very slowly, however, and some readers take issue with that. It is sort of a murder mystery. A very literary crime story, some have said.
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I am not Catholic or of any particular creed, but I cross myself whenever I think of those buckwheat cakes.