Books I've Read

Well well well, someone gets killed on Bernie's watch, and he gets blamed. Who could imagine?

This alternate universe story was...OK, but I didn't think it was as good as the rest of the series.

Mondrians everywhere! What's a burglar to do?

Well, I kinda figured out who did it, but on the other hand I didn't see those two who were gonna do it. If you know what I mean.

I really enjoyed this one, I even found a couple of really good quotes. I kinda fell in love with Ilona myself.

Bernie Rodenbarr accused of stealing baseball cards.

Evan Tanner goes to Chezchoslovakia to rescue an old Nazi.

Con men swindle a guy with a fake Canadian land deal. May have read before. Sorta sounds familiar. Did I already read this?

Ghosts at the Whitaker Magnet School/library. Didn't move me. Except for the quote below.

Paul's family moves to Florida, where the citrus trees have been cut down for housing developments. Awful stuff is eventually revealed about his jerk older brother. Very good story, I had a good sense of time and place.

Maddie is a teen that hasn't left her house since she was a little girl, for a reason that she cannot name, but WE suspect it has something to do with the sinister town library, don't we? And just WHO could the mysterious prisoner in the library basement be, eh?

John Cardinal's wife jumps off a building. Lisa investigates a child porn case. And Doctor Bell? Well, he's not helping much.

Owen and his uncle (who adopted him after his parents died) rob wealthy Republicans at dinner parties for a living. but uncle Max is starting to lose his mental faculties, and Owen wants to go to acting school. A violent and profane book, with a bit of humor. I enjoyed it.

A sequel to The Compound, which I have not read. Yet. How to sum up? Teen boy restored, with most of his family, to civilization after living underground for years (see previous book), has a lot to deal with.

Guy meets girl. Girl is a plant or a nudibranch or autotroph or something. More plant, I guess. But not green. Bad Scientist tries to get girl back to The Laboratory. Good/Bad Scientist turns out to be boy's missing father. Good Scientist takes plant girl to a Safe Place.

Teen girl flying to Midway Island ends up on a raft floating in the Pacific. Nicely written tale of survival.

Tales about the town at the end of the road, in Alaska. 299 p.

A writer discovers family history that she didn't know about, so she writes a book about the Armenian Genocide. Pretty good story.

The Patriotic Day ceremonies in Concord go awry, while Charlotte tries to deal with her family. Good story, with a map!

Paul Vickers is the new boy in a small town, son of the head of a government scientific outpost on Cape Cod. The story takes place in the near future after ecological changes and pollution have killed off the fishing and tourism industry in the area. Good story. I wish the author had used more real place names in the story so I could visualize where the action takes place.