2007: #67 – Portrait of a Killer (Patricia Cornwell)

Book #67 was Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper — Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell. The back of the book reads: America’s #1 bestselling crime writer solves the case that has baffled experts for more than a century. For over 100 years the Jack the Ripper murders have remained among the world’s greatest unsolved crimes, and theories have been posited which point the finger

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2007: #66 – The Double Bind (Chris Bohjalian)

Book #66 was The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian. The back of the book reads: When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a

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2007: #65 – Blood Sport (Dick Francis)

Book #65 was Blood Sport by Dick Francis. The back of the book reads: Gene Hawkins takes on the job of locating a missing priceless breeding stallion. But he gets more action than he bargained for from a group of horse thieves who want to put Hawkins out to pasture–permanently. Since this book was originally published in 1967, in many ways it seemed like a

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2007: #64 – The End (Lemony Snicket)

Book #64 was The End, the 13th and final book in Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events. The back of the book reads: Dear Reader, You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the

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