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Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen

Catherine — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:07:10 +0000

I’ve been trying hard to stick with reviewing more comforting reading, but I had a chance to delve into a favorite author’s backlist and took it. I’ve been an Anna Quindlen fan for years and recently decided to try her second novel. Published in 1998, Black and Blue is one woman’s story and the lengths […]

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Kill Show: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 08:05:52 +0000

Sara Parcell is a teenager and gifted violinist who disappears on what seems to be an ordinary day. Within days her case goes national, coming to the attention of an ambitious reality TV show producer desperate to do something bigger than dating competition shows. To that end she reaches out to Sara’s parents to follow […]

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Notes on an Execution: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 05:53:42 +0000

In twelve hours Ansel Packer will be executed. As the time unwinds, three women parse the life of a serial killer. Lavender is his mother, Hazel the twin sister of his wife, and Saffron the police captain involved in his capture. In Notes on an Execution their stories strip the filters from Ansel’s own Auto-tuned portrayal […]

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Dear Miss Metropolitan

Catherine — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 04:23:24 +0000

I was a prisoner for so, so long. Years. How was that humanly possible? Why didn’t anyone find me? How had my page been torn out the book for so long? Sometimes, when I finish a book, the review flies right out of my mind onto the page. Then there are the books that […]

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When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain

Catherine — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 04:35:51 +0000

Paula McLain is well-known for her historical fiction about women. This month she flips the script on her readers with When the Stars Go Dark, a complex mystery set in 1990s Northern California. There, Anna Hart is a missing persons detective who needs time off after a devastating personal loss. She heads to Mendocino to […]

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The Holdout: A Novel by Graham Moore

Catherine — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 04:34:48 +0000

All “guilty” votes had to be alike in reasoning. But all “not guilty” votes could be for different reasons and still reach the same results. Courtroom dramas are a staple in fiction, but they most often focus on the front of the house—victim, defendant, lawyers, maybe even judge. They seldom stray into the mysterious […]

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A Knock at Midnight

Catherine — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 04:25:48 +0000

If nothing else, 2020 has been my year of more “I had no idea” reading than any other in my adult life. I’ve read fiction and nonfiction on a number of issues for years, but somehow race was never a large part of that reading. Now, like many others in this country, I’ve seen just […]

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Long Bright River

Catherine — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 05:10:26 +0000

Mickey has been a Philadelphia police officer for 13 years. She’s got the brains and the experience to become a detective, but stays as a patrol cop in a neighborhood called Kensington. A high crime area where the yearly overdose deaths top 900. Why? Because it’s the only way she can keep track of her […]

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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Catherine — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 05:58:19 +0000

Last week, I left behind heavy nonfiction with Adam Rippon’s memoir, Beautiful on the Outside, but today I’m back with a heavy dose of reality. Dopesick is Beth Macy’s well-researched and documented rise of opioid addiction in America. Specifically, in the Appalachians—starting with the over-prescribing of high dose Oxycontin to coal miners in the late […]

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The Wolf Wants In

Catherine — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 07:03:09 +0000

Blackwater is a town hovering near Kansas City; a place of farmers and granaries. It’s also one of those small towns with big problems. The opioid crisis is taking its toll, a little girl has been murdered, her father is missing, and another young man has seemingly died of a heart attack at age 36. […]

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