For the past several years I've been a member of 3 different book clubs with differing focuses. I've bought a lot of books from them over time and one of them supplied the bulk of the 80+ cookbooks I own. I've been wanting to cancel them for years, because it requires a monthly login to decline their "featured selections" and I'm also tired of ( Read more... )

87. Sleight of Hand: A Barbara Holloway Legal Thriller - Kate Wilhelm - 398 pages. Set in Eugene, Oregon with stops all up and down the Oregon coast, this mystery focuses on a retired showman, a car dealer, his wife and family and two mysterious deaths. The title character is the attorney investigating all of it and trying the case in court. ( Read more... )

86. Taken - Chris Jordan - 365 pages. A widowed entrepreneur is getting through her days, with her successful catering business and assistant coaching her son's little league team. One day after an amazing game she gives her son some ice-cream money to go celebrate before heading home. He never makes it back to the car. What starts as a ( Read more... )

85. Revenant - Carolyn Haines - 362 pages. Professional journalist with her career on the rocks after losing her daughter in a fire and her husband to divorce, heads back home to take the only newspaper job she can get. Shortly after her arrival some renovations at a casino turn up 5 bodies and she's assigned the story. Between working with the ( Read more... )

84. Dead Right - Brenda Novak - 441 pages. A small town newspaper-woman decides to hire a private investigator to look into the disappearance of her father 20 years after he went missing. The police haven't made much headway with the case over the years except to keep their eyes on her step brother. As the PI looks into the case, many things ( Read more... )

82. Behind Closed Doors - Tara Taylor Quinn - 376 pages. THe main characters are an interracial couple, she's a scientist and he's a college professor. His family embraces them, while her parents have issues with her marrying a black man. One night something horrible happens and they are attacked, and she's raped. The rest of the story is the ( Read more... )

81. The Seance - Heather Graham - 371 pages. A woman inherits her grandparents home and moves back to her hometown. As she arrives back home and moves in, it seems like a long-solved serial murder case is active again. Is it a copycat? Was the original suspect (who is long dead) actually innocent? This story blends detective/PI work with a tinge ( Read more... )

78. In the Dark of the Night - John Saul - 324 pages. Busy family decides to spend their last summer all together up at a lake where their friends and neighbors have been staying for years. They find a super deal to rent the largest place on the lake, but don't find out til after they arrive that the house has a history. The owner was declared ( Read more... )

77. Perfect Nightmare - John Saul - 339 pages. A picturebook family living in the perfect house they designed together, comes to the realization that to make their finances work, they have to sell the family home and move to NYC where the father/husband works. The daughter is just about ready to start her senior year and doesn't want to leave her ( Read more... )

76. Blaze: A Novel - Richard Bachman with foreward by Stephen King / Memory - a short story by Stephen King - 285 pages. This book contained the last of the novels by the Stephen King persona/pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story was more like "The Low Men" than even his other Bachman stuff, and centered on a 6'7" tall low IQ criminal, and his ( Read more... )