It was a murder by self-indulgence, he’d said. Far too many bourbons with water and then too much insistence on driving when Halsey wanted to drive and should have driven. I generally read Tony Hillerman for the love of the way he portrays the Navajo culture on the reservations in the Four Corners region. This is a completely different thing. The hero is not a police officer in any way, though he had once been a soldier, and he is […]
Location 3586 on Amazon Cloud reader. The citizens had also in the meanwhile witnessed the arrest and execution of the Duke of Buckingham, son of the duke he figured so prominently before the citizens when the crown was offered to Richard the III at Baynard Castle. He was seized one day whilst landing his barge at the Hay Wharf, on a number of charges, all more or less frivolous. A bit dull, but I like having the research material handy. […]
Lady Gosforth blushed slightly. She said in a caustic tone that fooled no one, “Mr. Delaney, I see you haven’t given up your shocking propensity to flirt with old women.” “Now how would you know that when there’s not an old women in sight?” he responded promptly. Just finished this one. It’s a signed copy. Anyone want it? MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” […]
location 188 on Amazon cloud reader (which I’m not real happy with. Amazon, I mean. The book is great.) If anyone were to look through the window he doubted they’d find anything amiss at first glance. There were no blood-splattered walls or signs of struggle. Sandra Bedows appeared to be sleeping peacefully on the couch until one looked a little closer to find a bright pink azalea in her hands and her mouth sewn shut. MizB of Should Be Reading […]
The new queen giving an eulogy: “I have loved and hated Edon Bryne,” she said. “I have loved him for his clear eye, honest soul, and blunt speech.” She paused. “I have hated him for his clear eye, honest soul, and blunt speech.” MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be Reading for more detail.
“The only horses I’ve heard of that are still bred to fight are Zindarian warrior horses, and they’re supposed to be a myth.” “Then a mythical horse just ate your apple core,” he told her. I’m back to Historical Romance. I haven’t read one in quite some time. I’m enjoying it. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go […]
“But… this is what you love to do, right? What we’re doing right now? Sitting in the mud, getting rained on. Eating bugs? Crashing around in the jungle?” She started to laugh. “I don’t crash,” he said, wounded. “I slink.” I spent the last several weeks critiquing a book for a friend. It cut into my reading time a bit, and since it’s unpublished, I couldn’t exactly tease from it. Still, I managed to Out of Control, too. In fact, […]
But he did speak enough of what he called “survival Russian” to get the gist of what they were saying. First they would drop the Americans, and then they would make the delivery. Then they would all go back to Jakarta and have dinner with someone named Otto who was either Large’s brother or his cactus. Ken was betting they were brothers. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share […]
It would be a good day, a day made better by yesterday’s rain. The more pious among the pilgrim throng would have no complaints, since rain could not affect the course of the services inside the great temple. But the majority of pilgrims came as much for the fair as for the holy observances, and if yesterday’s weather had forced them into piety, they would make up for it today. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your […]
Oh terrific. Way to get the man to kiss her. Talk about exploding lungs. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be Reading for more detail.
At about 0530 that very morning, Ken “WildCard” Karmody became a terrorist. It wasn’t a career move he would normally have made, especially on such short notice, with no time to prepare properly. But seeing how it was a direct order, he had no choice but to embrace it completely. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see […]
“We know each other,” he affirmed with a nod. Somehow, when he put it in great philosophical terms like that, his seeing all her secrets no longer seemed such a very big thing after all. This one isn’t clicking for me. Probably won’t finish it. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be Reading for more […]
Incessant waves which elven thousand years ago had delivered detritus to this spot, causing an island to be born, had come back to retrieve their loan. The soil they took would be moved to some other spot along the Chesapeake, there to be utilized in some new fashion for perhaps a thousand years, after which the waves would borrow it again, using and reusing until that predictable day when the great world-ocean would sweep in to reclaim this entire peninsula, […]
