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If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him
Elizabeth MacPherson helps solve the murders of two husbands who died over 100 years apart.
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9/2000
MacPherson's Lament
Elizabeth's and Bill's parents are divorcing, plus Bill is in big trouble in the second case of his law career.
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9/2000
Missing Susan
Elizabeth MacPherson goes on a "Mystery" tour in the south of England. Really good story with many interesting tidbits of information and humerous incidents. Several characters are from the San Diego area, and one is from La Mesa!
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9/2000
Saint Dale
Not a mystery, a bus tour by people who revered Dale Earnhart to various NASCAR race tracks. More car racing info. than I really wanted to know!! TITLE should be changed to "St. Dale", I did a boo-boo.
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7/2005
She Walks These Hills
Mystery story set in Appalachia. Very good story. Kept reading sections to wife. Old man escapes from prison, Hometown folks on the lookout for him.
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8/2000
The Ballad Of Frankie Silver
A fabulous story intwining a true story from the 1800s and a contemporary story involving Sheriff Spencer Arrowood.
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10/2000
The Ballad Of Tom Dooley
Interesting novelization base on the author's research. I've read several of these "Ballad" novels, and have enjoyed them.
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12/2018
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Murder at the Underhill farm in Appalacia leaves two teen survivors of the family.
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9/2000
The PMS Outlaws
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.
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Geoffrey Chandler, a mainstay of his local community theatre, was often thought to be quoting Noel Coward even when he wasn't. It was an effect into which he put considerable effort. --pg. 121 BONUS QUOTE:
..."Tonya Harding got a raw deal. On behalf of the planet, I'm begging her pardon."... --page 186Read:
8/2003
The Rosewood Casket
A dying old man's wish is for his sons to build his casket. Very sad, I cried at the end.
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11/2000
The Songcatcher
A song travels through a family, pass down through the generations. Very good, of course.
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She had been his Sunday school teacher years ago, with a sternness that gave renewed meaning to the term Christian soldiers. --pg. 293Read:
12/2003
The Windsor Know
Elizabeth Macpherson tries to get married while solving murders and disappearances.
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10/2000
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
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.
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10/2014
The Member Of The Wedding
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.
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11/2013
The Wright Brothers
Interesting story of the Wright family, and especially the two famous brothers. Lots of pictures.
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10/2016
A Talent For War
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.
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The man who had overslept, missed the shuttle, and thereby missed the flight, mentioned his appreciation to an Almighty who, apparently, was less indulgent to the twenty-six hundred others.Quote:
The man who had overslept, missed the shuttle, and thereby missed the flight, mentioned his appreciation to an Almighty who, apparently, was less indulgent to the twenty-six hundred others.Quote:
In case you haven't heard, he said, Gabe was on the Capella. I'm sorry. -- This is confusing if one has read book nine first!Quote:
"You play chess, Alex?" [...]But I was never good at the game.
Redfield's features softened, as though he had recognized the presence of a social disability.Quote:
Bingo.Read:
4/2025
Cauldron
Hutch travels to nearly the center of the galaxy to find out where those darn Omegas are coming from, and why.
Words I Had To Look Up:
superluminals (pg. 373) -- FTL spaceships.
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10/2009
Polaris
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.
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The author never settled for a single adjective where two or three could be levered in.Quote:
Scramblers could, of course, be manufactured to resemble comm links or compacts or virtually any other kind of metal object. But my philosophy is that if someone has a weapon pointed at him, he should know about it.Read:
4/2025
Village In The Sky
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!
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She ordered toast and grapes from the generator.Quote:
"It's my library card," she said. "It should be more than sufficient to prove that you found us."Read:
4/2025
Skylar
He wrote the Fletch series. This story takes place in the South. A studly young handsome is accused of murder. Rated R
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7/1998
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[M.W. - Maguire] [Maguire - Marsden] [Marsh - Mass] [Mass - McBain] [McBain - McCrumb] [McCrumb - McDonald] [McFadden - Meyer] [Meyer - Montgomery] [Montgomery - Moore] [Moore - Mowat] [Muchamore - Mysterious Press]