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I don’t want to go into those Dark Places either

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

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cbr10bingo…White Whale I accidentally bought this on my Kindle on March 6, 2015.  I don’t think I had even read Gone Girl yet at that point, but I think I had heard about Ms. Flynn.  This has been on my “to read” list for a while now, so I’m calling it my White Whale.  Like I said above, I have the Kindle version, but I wasn’t reading it, and I’m reading another book on my Kindle currently, so I downloaded the audiobook version and I listened to it in my car. This story is really messed up.  We meet Libby Day, […]

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11/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:55 |

Somehow this series still works.

A Letter of Mary (Mary Russell, #3) by Laurie R. King

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This one started out really strong for me, and then petered out near the end, for a couple of reasons, which I will be marking in spoiler tags. Mary and Holmes continue to be a great pair, and I find their cerebral marriage a compelling one, though I am beginning to get a bit annoyed with King for discounting Watson so much. Here, we meet an old friend from the first book, the archaeologist Dorothy Ruskin, who shows up in Sussex for a visit, and leaves Mary and Holmes with a strange parchment, which appears to have been written by […]

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11/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:150 |

I’m still hoping he hears that cell door slamming behind him, and I’m hoping she somehow does too…

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

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cbr10bingo…Cannonballer Says I remember hearing or reading something about this book back in April of this year, because that’s when aggregate DNA from family tree / ancestry sites matched the killer’s DNA to an actual person.  I’ve always been intrigued by serial killers, and I’ve been reading true crime books since high school.  That’s really what drew me in, Michelle partially wrote this book, then passed away, then her husband and another author finished it, it was released, and then through a totally different process, he was caught. I know that once I heard about the book, I went to […]

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11/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:54 |

Who is actually in harm’s way here?

In Harm's Way (Walt Fleming #4) by Ridley Pearson

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This is the fourth book in a series I started at number three.  I did go back and read one and two after three though!  And then on to four.  I like this character – Sheriff Walt Fleming, and the supporting characters – Brandon (the sheriff’s right hand man who is dating his ex wife), Fiona (the crime scene reporter who Walt is in love with), and Beatrice (the lovable dog).  You know I’m a sucker for a dog, and she’s a good one!  She’s very well trained, and she can track people.  She got hurt at the end of […]

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10/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:51 |

Whoah, this girl is messed up – BINGO

Before I Met Him: a chilling psychological thriller by John Nicholl

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cbr10bingo… Cover Art THIS IS MY FIRST BINGO!  (I plan on having more, but we’ll see)  I chose this book for “cover art”, because it’s obviously a cool / disturbing cover. We start out the story with a British detective (or inspector, or whatever rank he was at the time) talking to a family about how the pedophile who sexually abused their six year old daughter won’t be brought to justice.  It’s devastating to both the family and the detective, because he’s a bad dude and he did some real harm. Flash forward fifteen (I think) years, and the little […]

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10/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

I wish I liked the characters more

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

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cbr10bingo… Underrepresented I really wish I liked the main character more.  I picked this audiobook (in CD form) up from the library on a whim.  The cover looked cool, and the story sounded interesting.  I’m always up for a murder mystery with a dash of hidden identities. The main character is Polly / Pauline.  She starts out by abandoning her daughter and husband on their beach vacation and driving to Delaware.  I don’t know if this was the point, but I didn’t like her right from the beginning.  She seemed selfish, self-absorbed, and kinda bitchy.  It appeared that she always […]

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10/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

Entertaining thriller; leaned into all the wrong parts. #CBRBingo (3rd Bingo!)

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

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I didn’t expect this book to blow my mind, so I had a good time reading it. It was pretty fucked up, in that what-the-hell-is-going-on sort of way. That made me read it super fast, and I was completely absorbed the whole time. But when the reveal finally happened, it just felt really clichéd the way it played out. This book is about Anna Fox, a former child psychologist, now agoraphobic shut-in, who hasn’t left her house in ten months (almost eleven), and who spends her time watching her neighbors and cataloguing their every move through her Nikon camera and […]

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9/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:119 |

John Rain might be trying to get out of the game?

A Lonely Resurrection (John Rain #2) by Barry Eisler

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cbr10bingo… Dream Vacation Ok so this book falls into the “Dream Vacation” category for cbr10bingo for 2 reasons: Tokyo and Osaka: John moved to Osaka to get away from the people who might want to kill him, but he travels back to Tokyo for most of the book.  I’ve never particularly wanted to go to Tokyo, but he makes it sound so interesting.  He goes to the little places that aren’t touristy, are off the beaten path, and that have great food.  The food he talks about in this book and the previous one make my mouth water as I’m […]

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9/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:44 |


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