Books I've Read

Woman makes deal with the Devil, tries to back out. Takes place in Florida. Cute dog named "Pete" is major charactor.

Stacy Reiner's mom come to L.A. and accidently becomes a star, much to Stacy's chagrin.

Three women and a hit man go on a Caribbean cruise.

Deborah and her sister Sharon don't get along, putting it mildly, so when a doctor they both have the hots for get murdered, guess who is under suspicion?

Ann Roth is fired from her job as a Hollywood journalist, goes back home to Missouri, becomes a hospital volunteer, runs across the actor who caused her to get fired, blah blah. No, I enjoyed this romantic sorta comedy, like all the rest the books I've read by this author.

Judy gets fired, her husband joins them up to a country club, and her step daughter hates her. Then there's the woman who gets murdered.

Elizabeth, a high-class hotel inspector, decides her husband needs improvement. Complications arise!

I read this book because I see his stuff on various great books lists. I did not care for it. I probably will not read any more of his stories, unless they are VERY short. Anyway, this one is about some war, a newborn baby dies, the mother dies, it is a metaphor for war or something, oh crud, I gave it all away!

Jessie Arnold has a sudden visit by a friend from ten years ago, the neighborhood bar burns down, what's next? Another good one from this author.

Missed this 2002 book from the Jessie Arnold series. She is building a new cabin in place of the one burned by arson and a skeleton is discovered after the foundation hole is dug. It turns out to be related to an old serial killer series, and a new one. Jessie seems to have broken up with Alex Jensen.

Jessie Arnold and her dog Tank drive an RV from Wyoming to Alaska, runs into a man trying to kill his son.

Jessie Arnold gets involved in yet another murder in Alaska!

Jessie runs across a body on the trail near her house while taking her dog team on a run after the first snow of the winter. Alex investigates, even Maxie shows up. Quite a few earthquakes take place. Jessie pushes some biker's motorcycle into the rough.

Jesie Arnold visits friends who are restoring a lighthouse, runs into a strange woman named Karen and...DANGER! Interesting lighthouse stuff, and a map!

Alaska State Trooper Alex Jensen must find who is murdering participants in the Iditarod race.

Alex Jensen investigates the disappearance of a pilot from his crashed plane. I was a little confused by the ending. Who shot down the plane? Good book!

A Maxine but not Stretch mystery. Maxie goes to Hawaii, without her dog, to help a friend Karen move. Stuff happens, nobody dies, we get a tour of Hawaii, and are told THREE times that Maxie keeps a shotgun in a secret compartment in her motor home. And her dead husband #2 keeps talking to her. But a pleasant little story, none the less. And there's a map.

Maxie and Stretch travel to Taos and get involved in a murder, and learn about weaving.

Penny's mother starts a cupcake store in the small town of Hog's Hollow. Penny works there, decorating the cupcakes. She makes a few friends at middle school, but she makes a few enemies, too. I enjoyed the story very much, but the characters seem very mature for ninth graders.

Written by Frank Herbert, his son Brian, and Kevin J. Anderson, this volume of various stories, alternative versions, and the orginal version of Dune is pretty good, especially considering I was pretty tired of Dune after reading the first three books and also the serialized version of Dune, back in the day.