2008: #45 – Grave Surprise (Charlaine Harris)

Book #45 was Grave Surprise, the second book in Charlaine Harris’ Harper Connelly series.  The back of the book reads: While in Memphis, psychic Harper Connelly senses-and finds-two bodies in a grave. One of a man centuries-dead. The other, a girl, recently deceased. Harper’s investigation yields another surprise: the next morning, a third body is found-in the very same grave. This one didn’t grab me

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2008: #44 – Death by Rodrigo (Ron Liebman)

Book #44 was Death by Rodrigo, the first in a new series by Ron Liebman.  The back of the book reads: When El Salvadoran crime boss Rodrigo González is finally nabbed in Camden, New Jersey, for high-volume drug trafficking, he hires criminal defense attorneys Mickie Mezzonatti and Salvatore “Junne” Salerno, Jr. He’s been told they’re the best and that, as former Camden police officers, they

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2008: #43 – Dark of the Moon (John Sandford)

Book #43 was Dark of the Moon by John Sandford.  The back of the book reads: Virgil Flowers-tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop’s-had kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First, it was the army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport had brought

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2008: #42 – Curse of the Spellmans (Lisa Lutz)

Book #42 was Curse of the Spellmans, the second book in Lisa Lutz’s Spellman Files series.  The back of the book reads: THEY’RE BAAAAACK. Their first caper, The Spellman Files, was a New York Times bestseller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators, return in a sidesplittingly

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