its been so long since I read the passage that I'm having a hard time getting in to it.

Purse book: "Say You're Sorry" by Michael Robotham, a British author I'm reading for the first time. Some similarities to "Keep of Lost Causes," except that the kidnap victims are two young girls, and one of them escapes...

but if you read Lost Causes all the way thru, have you become more inclined to floss your teeth?

Boy, after I finished that, I couldn't floss enough

as are the captivity scenes in Say You're Sorry, which is a real page-turner and typically non-American in having characters with lives.

I hope you enjoy it. It is not the top of my list of favorites, but that is a tough list.

Hard to believe I'd never read her before now.

Try to get to this one at some point.

No doubt a member of the noodle tree family....can't think of the botanical name offhand...

So far, kind of Hannibal Lecter, but female and in Portland.

I've met her (Chelsea Cain, not the serial killer Gretchen) a couple of times, and she seems like just this soccer mom to look at. She told the story about how her friends now take everything in stride--like her calling a crocheter friend up once and asking what size hook would be required to snag a certain internal organs.

I'm thinking maybe I'd want my kid on the other soccer team...

Actually we had a pleasant conversation about Portland and the Midwest writing and whether you could fit a full person into a cauldron (uh, kinda grew out of another author's comment on a panel about increasing tension in thrillers by throwing the protagonist into a cauldron of troubles and not letting them out...)

In training for Cain's Dharma Girl.

The former clearly darker and more in the thriller mode than the latter!

But I was intrigued with both since the author is a NW resident.

I sure hope _Heartsick_ is darker, because otherwise, Cain and her mom are very dangerous women

I finished Heartsick yesterday. Pretty dang dark, and not just the serial killer character! I made note to self that coupling this with recent reading of Gone Girl and The Talented Mr. Ripley has tended to add a certain grim gritty seasoning to my reading life. Not to mention recent read of The Wisdom of Psychopaths - maybe I need help!

But Dharma Girl, started last night, is certainly off on an entirely different footing, reeling me back from that grittiness. As well it should since it is more in the memoir category. I am greatly enjoying it so far.

Both a bark of laughter and chills with the "but she's MY psychopath" line.

Hadn't thought of it in terms of Ripley, though I was reminded of dear Tom recently while reading _A Firing Offense_ (George Pelacanos) and his character Nick Stafanos.

by Sarah Shankman

Have to admit that the title is the only reason I grabbed this book.

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and it is one of those bubble-gum-for-the-brain books. But it is silly/funny. The "heroine" is an aspiring C&W songwriter with a stupid ex-husband who is trying to get her back. It isn't quite as funny as the title, and it isn't the great American novel, but it is entertaining.

This is the 2nd in a series about Manabu Yukawa (“Detective Galileo”), a brilliant physics professor, and Police Detective Kusanagi, in Tokyo, Japan.

I read the fairly complicated first book, The Devotion of Suspect X, and enjoyed it and hope this one is just as good. I'm only on page 30 or so...
http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/H_Authors/Higashino_Keigo.html

My Book 118 of 2012....

No excitement, chases, gun battles, etc., just a police procedural with only one puzzling murder. I like the characters and dialogue and will read the next one, but hope they liven it up a bit....

Samantha (Sam) Casey, a Native American detective sergeant who can hear the dead speak, in Chasen Heights, Illinois. First of series.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/T_Authors/Tooley_Sandra.html


Book 119 of 2012

First in the series about Thóra Gudmundsdottir, a lawyer in Reykjavik, Iceland. It looks like a good story, I'm on page 50, but the print is so light I wonder if I'll be able to finish it.. Am going to try because I like the character, Thora, a lot...

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/Y_Authors/Yrsa-Sigurdardottir.html

My 120th book 2012..