Bingo Square: Book Club This is a difficult book to describe, as shown by the blurb which I found almost impenetrable and which doesn’t do it justice. Mostly it’s about a young woman named Vincent, and how she becomes involved with Jonathan Alkaitis, a very successful businessman who is actually running a Ponzi scheme. We also meet several of his investors, and see how they are affected when the scheme collapses and Alkaitis is arrested. As a young teen, Vincent’s mother drowns in a canoeing […]

Bingo Square: Money! Anton Waker grew up making money illegally. His parents deal in stolen goods and, with his cousin Aria, Anton has made a lucrative business supplying false passports and social security numbers to illegal immigrants. But he wants out of the family business. He’s ‘gone straight’ at a desk job, working his way up through the company, and about to be married. His seemingly ordered world falls apart when a routine background check at work shows his college diploma is as fake as […]

Bingo Square: Music Gavin is a little lost. After making it as a journalist in New York, his girlfriend has left him and he spirals into making up quotes for his stories. Found out and fired, he heads back to his hometown in Florida, humiliated. He also suffers terribly from heat stroke, an affliction he’s escaped on leaving. Taking a job with his sister, she shows him a photo of a child that resembles her and has Gavin’s ex-girlfriend’s last name. The timeline fits. Is […]