Books I've Read

Some mob guys put on a nostalgic rock music tour partly financed by Irwin, but try to rip him off. Not a good move.

Junior Bender investigates an investigation from a long long time ago at the behest of Irwin Dressler. Very good story.

Poke has a surprise reunions, trouble with the Secret Service, complicated by North Korean counterfeiters.

Alfonso finds his heritage on a trek to the not so mythical land of Dormia.

The Continental Op, #1. The Op goes to Personville, nicknamed Poisonville, an awful little berg of corruption.

Political and criminal machinations in a small town. The word "mien" is used seven times.

Mother and kids travel from Texas to a miserable existence in California picking cotton during the Dust Bowl era. Not bad, but no Steinbeck, as someone said to me.

A dysfunctional family whose dad has a violent abusive streak move to the wilds of Alaska in 1971. Pretty good.

Coronado girl Frankie joins the U.S. Army as a nurse and goes to Vietnam. Pretty graphic war stuff. I didn't care for the romance stuff. Much tears in the last quarter of so of the story.

A young Wisconsin farm girl deals with her mother's health problems and changes in her life. Very good.

Delly is always in trouble, at home and at school. She meets a strange girl named Ferris Boyd. Very good story!

The author tells of her life growing up in the are of San Marcos in San Diego County back in the early part of the twentieth century. A charming little book!

Col has his eyes opened to reality on the juggernaut Worldshaker when the Filthies plot revolution and he becomes enamored of their leader.

The title irritates me. And the jacket illustration. I've read this book before, and since I had nothing else to read, I read it again. It's ok, but I did not feel that I cared for any of the characters. I don't know what the Author's Note had to do with THIS book, either. The author sounds like she would be a very interesting person to hang out with.

Housecleaner Lily Bard looks into the murder of the landlord next door, who was dumped into HER trashcan!

The campaign for president as told by the candidate.

Landscaper Paula Holliday finds box containing a small body buried in the garden she is renovating. Not overly complicated, but a fun and interesting read.

The Rat is hired to look for a interplanetary bank robber. .

Rachel has to travel to San Francisco to proclaim her innocence for using black magic.

I wanted to stop reading around twenty, but I kept on reading and stuck it out to the end. Part of the problem is I am not really interested in witchy stuff. I got interested around page two-hundred and ninety-something, at the coven meeting in San Fran.

I think one needs to start with the first book. There was a LOT of background story that I needed to understand who and what was going on. I read the uncorrected proof edition.

Noir mystery stories set in San Diego, ain't that sweet?