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The Cornish Wedding Murder
The Nosey Parker Mysteries, #1.
I enjoyed reading this fun cozy. Will read more!
Thought I had some good quotes to share but they seem to have disappeared!
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5/2025
The Perfect Cornish Murder
The Nosey Parker Mysteries, #3.
A movie company comes to the village. A man dies of fugu poisoning. Or did he?
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"You could park a bike in that," I said, and she giggled.Quote:
"Superglue," said Mum. -- But no one seems to know that acetone dissolves super glue. Quote:
"What? Really? It was superglue?" -- I'll say it again. Acetone. Quote:
"Yeah, right. I think a pig just flew over my head..." Quote:
Daisy had gone through a phase when she was a toddler of getting into my pot plants -- Not those kind of pot plants!! Quote:
I dared admit to myself that he was the one I wanted to be with. -- Finally! I kinda hate the romantic stuff. Read:
6/2025
How Lucky
A guy named Daniel unknowingly sees a woman being kidnapped in front of his house. Pretty good story, I learned a lot about SMA, a progressive disorder I never heard of before.
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[...] taking bon hits, and binge-watching every episode of Black Mirror. -- At the same time? Yikes!Quote:
She has a first-generation immigrant's faith in the police, [...] I don't have the heart to tell her the truth.Quote:
She elbowed him in the stomach, tapped hhis left cheek, and barked "No, Thomas, NO," right in his face. "I am sorry, Kim," he said, and he hugged her and cried. -- Wow, I cried too!! Read:
5/2025
Death At La Fenice
Interesting mystery story that takes place in Venice. Commissario Guido Brunetti series. The world famous Maestro dies between acts at the opera. Nicely written, too.
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5/2022
Be Cool
Chile Palmer gets involved in the record business.
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...Edie peeling off the robe as she went into the bathroom and stepped out of her panties, the widow in her bereavement forgetting to shut the door. (page 73-74) BONUS QUOTE:
Chili said, "What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?" And Elaine said, "Bogart in the The Maltese Falcon . That's the best line in the picture. Everything else is expository." (page 129)Read:
12/2000
Djibouti
Takes place mostly in Africa, mostly Djibouti, a place with which I was not familiar. The story moved along pretty slowly, I thought, but the ending is, well, an ending. Chapter five, paragraph, three, I think, it says "Yahama". Did no one notice, or no one cared, or the author did it on purpose?
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11/2018
Pagan Babies
Faux priest returns from Africa to run a scam to get funds. Very unpleasant descriptions of violence in Africa.
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7/2001
Raylan
Raylan Given, #3. U.S. Marshall Raylin, with his cowboy hat, looks for the killer of an old man, three women robbing banks, and an escaped gambler, who might have been one of those aforementioned three women robbing banks, but wasn't.
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"You don't think of your manners and let the woman go first," Art Mullen said, "not when she is pointing a gun at you."Read:
3/2024
Riding The Rap
Raylan Givens, #2. More sordid going-ons in Florida.
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7/1998
Road Dogs
Foley meets Cundo in prison, ends up in Venice (California) where Dawn is plotting to get Cundo's money.
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7/2009
Tishomingo Blues
High diver Dennis goes to Mississippi and meets Civil War reenactors, drug dealers, a Young Dog named Robert Taylor, and cute A lil' ol' hooker named Traci.
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9/2002
Up In Honey's Room
Marshal Carl Webster is looking for couple of escaped German POWs in Detroit. Several interesting quotes regarding Honey taking off her underwear could be listed, but I refrain.
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6/2008
A Plague Of Secrets
San Francisco criminal defense attorney Dismas Hardy solves the mystery of who killed the marijuana dealer his client is accused of murdering. Somewhat confusing, I had to look back in the story several times to refresh my memory of who is who, and who did what.
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12/2009
Betrayal
Iraq war vet comes home to find his war-buddy hooked up with his ex-girlfriend. Pretty darn good. Dismas finally shows up on in Chapter 30 to save the day.
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...the woman who possessed ..."the Unknown Thing"--an attractive force so powerful that it altered the orbit of every man it encountered. -- (pg. 342) Attributed to T. Jefferson Parker.
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12/2009
The First Law
Glitsky is working payroll, Dismas is suing a Patrol Special holder, Wade Panos, for thirty million. Wade takes exception to this.
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12/2009
The Hunt Club
Wyatt Hunt investigates the murder of a judge and his girlfriend, and the disappearance of Wyatt's new woman friend.
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12/2009
The Motive
A double-murder arson in the San Francisco "Painted Ladies" leads to uncomfortable inquiries by Cuneo about Glitsky and Hardy.
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1/2010
The Oath
The head of an HMO gets injured in a hit-and-run, then dies in the ICU of his own hospital. Then it is discovered that he was murdered in the ICU! Then his whole family is killed that night! Yikes!
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I mean, face it, if your expenses are greater than your income, you're poor, right? No matter what you make. (pg. 115)
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You suppose time goes by, but you're not part of time anymore. And then one day something you eat has flavor again, or maybe the sun feels good on your back. Something. You start again (pg. 279) Dismas Hardy on recovering from the death of his infant son.
Words I Had To Look Up:
opprobrium (pg. 358) -- Public disgrace or ill fame that follows from conduct considered grossly wrong.
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12/2009
The Second Chair
Hardy helps Amy Wu when she defends a teen accused of shooting his girlfriend and drama teacher. Boy, they sure drink a lot in these books!
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1/2010
The Vig
A friend of Hardy has disappeared, leaving a bloody trail, and a dead woman is left behind. Hardy and Abe end up in Mexico chasing down the killer. Hardy sleeps with Fran for the first time, while he and Jane make the final break in their ex-marriage. Abe is still married to Flo.
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1/2010
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