Books I've Read

Trashy rich people in Wyoming get investigated by Lilly Bennet. Lilly gets her Marshal badge in this, the first book of the series.

Lilly Bennet wants to know who killed the old cowboy star at a charity dinner, goes to Las Vegas, meets Wayne Newton. Book was kinda stupid, Wayne was good.

Lilly Bennet doesn't let murder, shootings and bodies being exhumed interfere with her wedding.

Lilly Bennet, Marshal and solver-of-crimes in Wyoming, seems overly concerned with her makeup.

Almost-twelve-years-old Calpurnia learns about the natural sciences under the tutelage of her grandfather in 1899 rural Texas.

I'm still not sure what the title means. I wasn't captivated by the book, but I did find myself looking up a lot of things on the 'net.

Harrison is an emigrant teen from Ghana who investigates the murder of a boy in the neighborhood. I didn't care for the story. The British lower-class slang was grating on my ears. And the ending was a bummer. Read the Advance Reading Copy.

The life of a dog named Merle. Very excellent, and very weepy at the end.

Moon's survivalist father dies, so the young boy finds difficulty dealing with the society he know very little about.

The Scholastic edition does not suggest that this is book three of a series. Sarah lives in the Kalahari semi-desert with her zoologist-researcher father. Her mother died several months before. A motley group of teens are coming to stay for two week, possibly the beginning of a new source of funding for the research station. Things go badly. "Poachers", a horrific "disease", and a silver lion. Lots of action, I will give it that.

Girl growing up in the South. Pretty good. Bees!

Biographical book about a American doctor, Paul Farmer, who is saving TB patients, mostly in Haiti.

A Father Koesler mystery. Father find out who killed the Bishop. Number 16 in series. 266 p.

Father Koesler is in quandry...a murderer "confessed" to him, but he can't tell the police about it. Number 14 in series. 266 p.

The sins of the father are visited upon... The Pope is coming to town! Father Koesler moderates a forum and helps the police with a couple of murders. Number 17 in series, I wonder there are any priests left in Chicago! 272 p.

Father Koesler checks out a group of monks who have set up shop in Detroit and the "miracles" that seem to be happening. 312 p.

Father Koesler helps a priest accused of murder.

Father Koesler goes on vacation and we meet Father Tully. We meet Barbara Ullrich who tries to blackmale four men for paternity. Interesting.

A bomb explodes at the ceremony to admit a married Anglican priest into the Catholic priesthood.

A tangled web of relationships that leads to a death. Father Koesler is right there, of course. No. 22 in series.