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Celia knew a bad place when she saw it.

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfield

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints.... by Val McDermid

Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie

April 22, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Sometimes my reading comes in clusters. The cluster here is leftover audiobooks and books around the house before I permanently delete them or donate them! Quarantine house cleaning!! The Butterfly Girl 2/5 Stars – This is the second of the Naomi Cottle series. Naomi is a former abducted child with the uncanny ability to find missing, lost, and abducted children. In the previous book she reconnected with a former friend from childhood and formed a relationship with him. In this book, that partnership is at […]

In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory.

The Child Finder by Rene Denfield

January 7, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

There are two driving narratives in this book and at least initially I wasn’t clear if they were slowly merging together or slowly diverging apart. That could be for two very different reasons, but the novel, which I listened to as opposed to read, was perfectly fine, but only perfectly fine, so I didn’t feel like going back and investigating. So the two narratives are: one, Naomi Cottle, the titular “child finder,” is beginning a new case, and we are made to realize this is […]

Tracy on A Quiet Book About Surviving AloneFrom looking at Goodreads, it looks like at least a couple of her other works have been translated.
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