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The Cat Who Caught a Killer

L T Shearer

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Meet Conrad the cat. You’ve never met a detective like him before. Neither has Lulu Lewis when...

Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors During Britain's Financial Revolution, 1690-1750

Amy M. Froide

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Silent Partners restores women to their place in the story of England's Financial Revolution. Women...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2165 KP) rated Union Jacked in Books

Sep 3, 2022

Union Jacked

Diane Vallere | 2019 | Mystery

8.0

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Retirement Parties, Strikes, and Murder

A British investment firm has bought out Travada, the local department store were Samantha Kidd works as a buyer. She’s struggling to match what she thinks the store should be selling with her new directives. Meanwhile, many of the employees are on strike, and Samantha is planning a retirement party for Detective Loncar. When Detective Loncar stops by the store on day, he’s on sight when someone shoots a gun. He and the leader of the strike are both shot. Who was the target? Can Samantha figure out what is going on?

Parts of the premise of this book stretch credibility a bit, but I was quickly caught up in the story and didn’t care. With everything happening, the story was fast paced and kept me engaged right up to the ending. The ending took a bit of thinking on my end, but it does make sense. What doesn’t make the sense is the timelines. It’s not anything that impacts the story, but Samantha can’t keep the days of the story straight or when some of her last adventures happened in relation to each other. On the other hand, I still enjoyed my time in the characters, new and old, and appreciated the growth we saw in Samantha. The humor is still sharp as well; I was grinning when I wasn’t laughing. Fans of the series will enjoy this adventure for sure.

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CKD (37 KP) rated The Lake House in Books

Dec 7, 2018

I really enjoyed this book. It was a light read in the sense that there was not a lot of drama. Oh, there was some drama but it wasn't hard-core. The book is based in a community called Nagog in Massachusetts. This fictional town is loosely based on the town of Acton, MA, which has a community called Nagog Woods. It tells the story of Heather, who buys a house in a "retirement" community and the bonds she forges with 2 of the residents there, along with the grandson of another resident. Victoria, one of the ladies Heather bonds with, also tells her story in parallel to Heather's story. Great read!