There's a lot of that going around.

Good story!

it will go on my list for my next visit to the library.

Agent Pendergast is faced with the most inexplicable challenge of his career when several shoe-clad severed feet are found floating in the Gulf of Mexico.

Thanks for adding that blurb.

I discovered this author by chance several months ago and have been reading one of his books every few weeks. He is a psychologist with a complicated family life and a detective friend who commits a murder which involves the psychologist. It's an interesting read, but I have read them out of order which I don't recommend.

Is the very last in the series of 20. The first, from 1991, is Privileged Information, for anyone who might want to check out this highly acclaimed psychological thriller series.

Antibiotics fail worldwide due to overuse.

Millions die from disease and paper cuts.

First published in 2022, mid COVID.

The child is a young immigrant with healing power due to genetic fluke micro biome.

Corrupt politicians and cops want the kid. Corporations want to exploit the kid for profit. Good guys try to keep him safe.

Pretty good page turner but kinda shallow. What I call ‘video game’ books. Every time a situation seems to resolve something even more dire happens and action hero explodes into action.

Easy afternoon read.

And have fun. I love gem shows. I have a large rock collection.

"Condor's Fury," by Clive Cussler. I had just started it when I got a new shipment of books, including, "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," by Peter Matthiessen. I picked it up, and can't put it down. Not fiction, but you wish it was.

I missed last week's thread--internet service was down for several days. I went through major withdrawal!

It was very good but it pissed me off. Don't get me started on that, though....

Author AKA "The Mull Historical Society." It's very good. Next up is "The Dark Wives" by Ann Cleeves. The latest Vera novel. We went to the book launch last week.

And the new Vera story sounds quite interesting. The "stunning eleventh book" of the series. I look forward to reading it. Thanks.

They are good, I enjoy them, but after I finish this I still have more than half the series to go!

decided to check out one the Hwy 59 series books, Bluebird, Bluebird. Having traveled up and down that highway myself on trips to Texas, I am compelled to at least read one book in the series.

When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules -- a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.

When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders -- a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman -- have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes -- and save himself in the process -- before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. From a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire, Bluebird, Bluebird is a rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.

that sounds really good!

Thanks. Same to you.

I know it's not fiction, but it's what I'm reading. So far, excellent.

in May. It's good to know history and that sounds fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

Foolish people doing foolish things. Too far in, now, to put it down.

By Chris Whitaker

by Coleen Thompson. The first of hers I've read -- supposed to be a thriller but in a mood is more like bodice-ripper. Not sure I'll finish it.

This is my first post on Democratic Underground. I've lurked here for years and finally decided to join.

I like good scifi novels and he hasn't disappointed me yet.

Someone mentioned Crooked River by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child and I checked it's available for checkout in my library so I'll be heading there after the football game to get it. I've read all the Agent Pendergast novels and I'm looking forward to this one.

A former cop with a substance abuse problem goes to AA Meetings is dating a prostitute still on the job and is hired by a drug dealer to solve his wife’s murder. The dealer doesn’t want to mess with the police because he himself is a criminal.

Bad guy deviants doing yucky things to women. I’m not finished yet. With the Book.

1992. Lots of use of pay phones. Refreshing that not everyone is connected.

TORCH TOWN BOOGIE (Shamus Award Nominee)
Harry James Denton is looking for another case—and he gets one when the magnificent mansion across the street from his apartment is consumed in a suspicious fire. The blaze has all the scorch marks of the East Nashville Arsonist, a phantom firebug whose burning desire seems to be driving gentrifiers out of Harry's funky, rundown neighborhood. This time, though, the modus operandi includes murder.

This has been an enjoyable series for me, especially since the author takes us to a number of my old haunts from my Nashville days.