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2010: #95 – Abandon (Carla Neggers)

December 2, 2010 0 Comment

A missing federal judge. A fugitive on the loose. And a deputy marshal who’s already broken her own rules.

On what is supposed to be a quiet long weekend in New Hampshire, Deputy U.S. Marshal Mackenzie Stewart is viciously attacked at the lakefront cottage of her friend, federal judge Bernadette Peacham. Mac fends off her attacker, but he manages to escape. Everything suggests he’s a deranged drifter — until FBI special agent Andrew Rook arrives.

With Rook, Mac broke her own rule not to get involved with anyone in law enforcement, but she knows he isn’t up from Washington, D.C., to set things straight between them. He’s on a case.

As the hunt for the mysterious attacker continues, the case takes an unexpected turn when Mac and Rook return to Washington and find Bernadette’s ex-husband, a powerful attorney, shot to death. Then Bernadette disappears, and Mac and Rook realize the stakes are higher than either had imagined, and a master criminal with nothing left to lose is prepared to gamble everything.

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2010: Challenges – Countdown Challenge 2011

December 2, 2010 4 Comments

This is not an official challenge, because I can’t find anyone hosting it! The original challenge is one of my favorites, so I’m going to go ahead and do it on my own. If I felt a little more dedicated, I’d actually host it myself — but I’d feel a little funny usurping someone else’s challenge idea. So for now, it’s just me, but if

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2010: Challenges – Four Month Challenge Part 5

December 1, 2010 0 Comment

Ask, and ye shall receive! Part 5 of the Four Month Challenge (hosted by Book Drunkard) starts on December 1. Hopefully I can do better this time. Here are the categories for this go-round: last updated: 3/31/11 FIVE POINT CHALLENGES: Read a book by your favourite author – Black Magic Sanction (Kim Harrison) Read a YA book Read a book written in 2010 – Lake

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2010: #94 – The Tapestry of Love (Rosy Thornton)

December 1, 2010 2 Comments

A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to make a new start, and her dream is to set up in business as a seamstress. But this is a harsh and lonely place when you’re no longer just here on holiday. There is French bureaucracy to contend with, not to mention the mountain weather, and the reserve of her neighbors, including the intriguing Patrick Castagnol. And that’s before the arrival of Catherine’s sister, Bryony.