Books I've Read

A fabulous story intwining a true story from the 1800s and a contemporary story involving Sheriff Spencer Arrowood.

Interesting novelization base on the author's research. I've read several of these "Ballad" novels, and have enjoyed them.

Murder at the Underhill farm in Appalacia leaves two teen survivors of the family.

Eleizabeth MacPherson is in the looney bin, A. P. Powell gets a strange phone call from a law-school chum who is on the lam.

A dying old man's wish is for his sons to build his casket. Very sad, I cried at the end.

A song travels through a family, pass down through the generations. Very good, of course.

Elizabeth Macpherson tries to get married while solving murders and disappearances.

A group of people in a Southern town. Deaf-mute guy, teen girl, cafe owner, the black doctor and his daughter, and others. Nicely written.

This book was hard to read. That is, it went very slowly, and I found myself re-reading portions I had glazed over. Being a little paperback did not help! Some of it was a bit disturbing, too. I'm glad I read it. Maybe I'll watch the movie sometime. And I wonder how Frankie turned out in the end.

Interesting story of the Wright family, and especially the two famous brothers. Lots of pictures.

Alex Benedict #1. I read #9 and wasn't all THAT enthused, but this one grabbed me a bit more. Although I had trouble following the plot a bit, because, me. I think I shall try #2.

Hutch travels to nearly the center of the galaxy to find out where those darn Omegas are coming from, and why.

Alex Benedict, #2. The crew and passengers mysteriously disappears from a space yacht that had journeyed to see the star Delta Karpis collide with a dwarf. Many years (a hundred?) later Alex and Chase get involved in finding out what happened. And why does someone not want them to?

The scene where the house AI was disabled while burglars searched the house, stealing some not-all-that valuable stuff, which was later dumped in a river; well, it seems very familiar. Like I read it recently in another book by this author? I'll have to look around and see.

Alex Benedict, #9. Not-an-archeologist in space! An interesting read, but I'm not getting too excited here. Possibly the AIs are my favorite characters!

He wrote the Fletch series. This story takes place in the South. A studly young handsome is accused of murder. Rated R

Kids who disappeared and reappeared are sent by their desperate parents to a peculiar school run by Miss Eleanor West. Really nicely written. First of a series.

Urban Fairy Noir in San Francisco? Nice setting, too much action. Don't really want to read the rest of the series, though.

Kinapping goes wrong. Wrong people keep getting kidnapped, and bodies keep ending up in people's cars... Book ends suddenly.

A confusing mystery of a body in a cement mixer, multiple girlfriends, and money. Who is that bearded guy in Kentucky? Who lets their kid have a trap door?

I can't believe I don't have any other books by this author on The Big List! I've read several, and many of his stories in Outdoor Life. I enjoy his comedic outdoor adventures. This is a light mystery, taking place in Idaho, as far as I can tell, the second of the Sheriff Bo Tully series. Some editing boo-boos (A character is called by the wrong name; Bo visits a crime scene that he has already visited, yet asks directions to it.). Interesting characters, but not a lot of depth. I guess I said "light mystery", didn't I!