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Without Pity

12 Gripping True Crime Stories Author: Ann Rule Without Pity is a collection of 12 true crime stories, each focusing on a murderer hidden in plain sight, under the guise of a friend or kindly neighbor, an innocuous do-gooder with an ulterior motive. In this volume, Rule curates nine stories from previous volumes (and provides timely updates on each), grouped around this theme of goodness underpinned by a hidden evil. Without Pity also contains three new stories. While many of Rule’s fans are less than happy with a “new” volume that mostly contains old material, I came to Without Pity as [...]

2022-07-26T09:27:13-07:00July 6th, 2022|Tags: , , , , |

Way We Live Now, The

For Love or Money? Author: Anthony Trollope Augustus Melmotte has recently arrived in London, shadowed by a murky past and rumors. Melmotte is not the usual choice of society: his nationality is suspect, his religion unknown, his wife’s heritage dubious at best, and his mannerisms crass. Yet, he has taken London by storm because of his wealth and the potential money making railroad scheme he has brought to the fore. Haughty society, with land and titles (although very little money), is flocking to the Melmottes, turning a blind eye to their faults, seeking money like vultures looking for carrion. As Melmotte [...]

2022-07-26T09:28:11-07:00July 4th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

Home Before Dark

The Consequences of Freedom Author: Susan Wiggs Jessie Ryder has lived a life free of repercussions until now. She has followed her dreams, her career as a photojournalist, leaving family and friends and lovers behind, living for the moment, un-tethered. All that is coming to a necessary end now, her own body rebelling against her. Now she is thinking, regretting, looking back over her life, and crashing into the settled lives of those around her. Sixteen years ago, Jessie gave up a child and her devoted sister, Luz, gave up her own dreams in order to adopt and raise that child. [...]

2022-07-26T09:29:35-07:00July 3rd, 2022|Tags: , , , , |
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