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Review: 19th Christmas - James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

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Review: 19th Christmas - Book #19 Women's Murder Club Series - James Patterson and Maxine Paetro - October 2019 The Women's Murder Club crew and their partners are looking forward to a hopeful quiet-ish Christmas this year in San Francisco. Of course, we know that's not going to happen as even Lindsey's old partner is pulled in from retirement. Seems a cop's work is never done as the team gets a tip that someone named Mr. Lomas is going to do the heist of a lifetime at it is happening Christmas day. No other information and as the team tries to follow the countless leads, they always end in the same thing - a dead body. This case also causes a little stress for the families of the police officers as they had planned to spend Christmas with their families, in particular, Lindsey Boxer's family as we see tensions rise between her and Joe where he even tries to talk to her about quitting which we know will never happen. Joe also gets a nice surprise a...

Review: The Girl on Mill Street - Peter Gilboy

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Review: The Girl on Mill Street - Peter Gilboy - April 2017 Lately, I had been reading a lot of Bully romances and contemporary romances and needed something to break it up. When I feel like I have read too much, I tend to gravitate towards mystery fiction to rejuvenate myself. Scrolling through my kindle I came across The Girl on Mill Street and the cover captured me. Ten years ago, Annie's father was committed to murdering her mother when she disappeared one day. Her father built his career on being a top Sexual therapist and had written a self-help book called Twice a Day and had a strong belief in Freud's theories.  Annie always believed her father was innocent but as the trial went along all this past information about her father came to light including a stint when he was in a cult in the 1970s before meeting Annie's mother Sunny.  During this cult, one of her father's girlfriends was murdered and it seems to be identical to the way that Sunny...