Mind Candy

Apparently Tess Gerritsen started her career as a Danielle Steel wanna be. I didn't realize the novel "In Their Footsteps" was written in the mid 90's when I picked it up. This was a bit of mystery with romance thrown in and not my cup of tea. Her later novels are usually very good but this was just fluff.

Jammie day

I debated on my day off without hubby to clean two months worth of dust from my house or take a jammie day and read a book. The book won with a nap thrown in. Kathy Reichs' latest "Spider Bones" is excellent. It's one of her Temperance Brennan series and this one took us from Montreal where a body was discovered in a pond but the fingerprints said he had been dead since Vietnam in 1968. The body that was mistaken for him was exhumed and that lead Tempe to Hawaii where they do the searches for missing remains of all the wars' MIAs. More mystery and intrigue follow and even an attempt on her life. Couldn't put it down for more than my nap time.

New series

I bought the latest Dean Koontz book which happened to be part of his Frankenstein series. I have two others but never read them but now I have to do so and also I will need to order the one I'm missing to fill in the blanks. This one was good even without having the background but it definitely left me hanging since there was no ending. There's a whole other novel waiting to be written to complete this latest story. A town in Montana has been put under seige by Victor Immaculuate formerly known as Victor Frankenstein (the creator of Frankenstein). Everyone thought he was killed two years ago but his clone is alive and well and creating havoc in Montana. People are seeing double as they are replaced by Victor's non human creations. Enter Frankenstein and his former cop friends to help take back the town and destroy his creator. Have to wait until next spring to find out what happens next but I can find out what happened before.

Another Patterson, or is it?

Finished "The Postcard Killers" by James Patterson and Liza Marklund. Yes, it had the Patterson look and the short chapters that he's famous for but other than that....I think it was all Liza. Not like his style. Took me till half way through the book to get into it at all. Hope this isn't a new series of books. It took place in Europe. A couple is traveling around Europe killing off couples and staging them to look like famous paintings from that area. They are being hunted by a NY detective whose daughter was one of the victims. His helper is a journalist who received one of the postcards that was part of the killers calling cards. Why do you need so many co-authors, Mr. Patterson?

A change of pace

Finished a novel by Deanna Raybourn called "The Dead Travel Fast." Set in the mid 1800's young Theodora leaves her home in Edinburgh and heads to Transylvania to visit a former school friend. She aspires to write a book and what better place to do so than in the heart of vampires and werewolves country. Strange things start happening quickly. Nice break from my other recent reads.

Finished

I think I'm all caught up now with the Harlan Coben books. Now I'm depressed that I don't have anymore. He's just so good! There was no Myron Bolitar this time. This was about a guy who while in college jumped into the middle of a fight to help his friend out and ended up killing a kid accidentally. He went to jail for five years. When he got out he finished school to be a lawyer but because of his record he couldn't practice. He worked with his brother's law firm as a paralegal. Suddenly he's being victimized. Seems his record is making him a target. This novel took lots of twists and turns and came up a winner.

Caught up with Myron

I finished the last of the Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben. This one was
"Darkest Fear" and it was equal to all the others. This time Myron discovers he's a father of a 13 year old boy with a rare disease that can only be cured with a blood transfusion. The problem is finding the donor. They know that there is one but he's gone off the grid and finding him leads to a serial killer. Another one that you don't want to put down.

Got my cast off today but the xrays showed that the bone hasn't knitted together so I'm in an air cast for another month. It was very painful trying to get around and I had to break down at work and put some thick gauze along the inside of the cast to keep it from cutting into my leg. The upside is that when I got home I soaked in nice soapy hot water and scrubbed off the dead skin. What a relief! I could sleep without it but would have to put it on everytime mother nature called during the night and that velco sound is very loud in the middle of the night.