It’s Monday, What are You Reading? Field of Bones

It’s Monday, What are You Reading? Field of Bones: 

A Brady Novel of Suspense (Joanna Brady Mysteries)
by J.A. Jance

https://www.amazon.com/Field-Bones-Suspense-Joanna-Mysteries/dp/0062657577/

This post is the one-hundred and sixtieth entry for this meme suggested by Sheila@ One Persons Journey Through A World of Books. [Entries 22-25 in the series were posted at  the Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories]


The latest by an author we started reading (and met and got to know) in Tucson, many years ago. One of the few authors Nancy and I both read each time a new one comes out. This Brady novel was especially good!! ;-)


Book Description from Amazon:

Sheriff Joanna Brady’s best intentions to stay on maternity leave take a hit when a serial homicide case rocks Cochise County, dragging her into a far-reaching investigation to bring down a relentless killer in this chilling tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.
This time Sheriff Joanna Brady may expect to see her maternity leave through to completion, but the world has other plans when a serial homicide case surfaces in her beloved Cochise County. Rather than staying home with her newborn and losing herself in the cold cases to be found in her father’s long unread diaries, Joanna instead finds herself overseeing a complex investigation involving multiple jurisdictions.
Filled with the beloved characters, small town charm, vivid history, intriguing mystery, and the scenic Arizona desert backdrop that have made the Joanna Brady series perennial bestsellers, this latest entry featuring the popular sheriff is sure to please J. A. Jance’s legion of fans.




Happy Reading!

Dr. Bill  ;-)

It’s Monday, What are You Reading? Lying beneath the oaks

It’s Monday, What are You Reading? 
Lying beneath the oaks
by Kristin Wright

https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Beneath-Oaks-Kristin-Wright/dp/1622681436/

This post is the one-hundred and fifty-ninth entry for this meme suggested by Sheila@ One Persons Journey Through A World of Books. [Entries 22-25 in the series were posted at  the Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories]

A new novel by the sister of the husband of a cousin… have to read it, of course!  ;-)
A very different genre (one reviewer called it a southern gothic romantic suspense), for us, but curious to see how it reads…


Book Description from Amazon:

Molly Todd wakes up in a Vegas parking lot with a headache, a virtual stranger, and a wedding ring. Jobless and broke, she's left with no other option but to go home with new husband Cooper Middleton to the Lowcountry of South Carolina to straighten out the mess they've made. It's in Molly's best interest to get an annulment sooner rather than later--before her hosts find out that she's not the kind of guest anyone wants at their Thanksgiving dinner.

The more Molly gets to know Cooper and his family, the more she wonders if she and Cooper might have a real chance together. She longs to tell him her secret even though she knows the truth might get her kicked straight out into the nearby swamp. While she wavers, Molly's unusual life experiences allow her to spot the skeletons in the Middleton family closet: ones Cooper's never suspected, ones that are hidden in plain sight. What Molly discovers will shake Cooper's foundations--and could threaten both their lives.



Happy Reading!

Dr. Bill  ;-)

It’s Monday, What are You Reading? Marooned

It’s Monday, What are You Reading? Marooned:

Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin
by Joseph Kelly

 

https://www.amazon.com/Marooned-Jamestown-Shipwreck-History-Americas/dp/163286777X/

This post is the one-hundred and fifty-eighth entry for this meme suggested by Sheila@ One Persons Journey Through A World of Books. [Entries 22-25 in the series were posted at  the Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories]


Christmas Book One from my Wish List… Thanks, Annette Lamb! ;-)


Book Description from Amazon:

For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth.
We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled city on a hill. Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start, offering a cautionary tale. Lazy louts hunted gold till they starved, and the shiftless settlers had to be rescued by English food and the hard discipline of martial law.
Neither story is true. In Marooned, Joseph Kelly reexamines the history of Jamestown and comes to a radically different and decidedly American interpretation of these first Virginians.
In this gripping account of shipwrecks and mutiny in America's earliest settlements, Kelly argues that the colonists at Jamestown were literally and figuratively marooned, cut loose from civilization, and cast into the wilderness. The British caste system meant little on this frontier: those who wanted to survive had to learn to work and fight and intermingle with the nearby native populations. Ten years before the Mayflower Compact and decades before Hobbes and Locke, they invented the idea of government by the people. 150 years before Jefferson, they discovered the truth that all men were equal.
The epic origin of America was not an exodus and a fledgling theocracy. It is a tale of shipwrecked castaways of all classes marooned in the wilderness fending for themselves in any way they could--a story that illuminates who we are today.


Happy Reading!

Dr. Bill  ;-)