This is very much more of a character-driven story, and a character-exploration story, rather than a page turning, thrilling mystery novel. The main character, Anna, has just recently returned home after suffering a family tragedy and being kicked out by her husband. A detective who specializes in missing children, Anna's hometown has long haunted her as a girl she went to school with went missing in a still-unsolved case. Just as she returns, as it happens, another girl has gone missing - and Anna very quickly finds herself involved in solving the case. As she does so, her past trauma comes to light and becomes a force she will need to deal with if she is going to find Cameron and return to her family. I didn't really find this to be a page turner. In fact, it took me a while to get past the first section, because it's really just setting the stage and nothing much happens. I finally sat down and just plowed through the book in a day. It wasn't bad, but everything felt kind of flat and I didn't really care about Anna as a character. Even as she cried about the unknown trauma she had experienced, I never felt myself dying to know what had happened to her that led to her husband kicking her out. I just didn't care. I also don't love using real-life cases in a fictional story. It just felt exploitive and gross to me. Polly was a real girl who underwent something terrible, as did her family, and using it as some form of entertainment just doesn't sit right with me. Especially when you're going to make it a big piece of your plot, with your character investigating her bedroom and listening to a psychic talk about her.

jack and Anna heading to Africa to solve a rittle. When they got there they saw a graffe and they saw a heared of zebra's, wildabaest's , and gazzals. Then anna got stuck in kwick sand. Next Jack and Anna followed a honey so they get honey and that was the answer to the rittle

"It's like when a plane descends, you know? Gradually, down through the clouds, and suddenly you can't see anything? Except, with a plane, eventually you see the city. There was no city for me." Filthy Animals revolves around the lives of three characters - Charles and Sophie, two dancers that are in a questionably open relationship, and Lionel, a man they meet at a dinner party who is dealing with the fallout from a failed suicide attempt. The majority of the stories follow one or all of these characters, with a few outlier stories that deal with other people struggling through life. All of the stories are poignant, as the characters deal with terminal medical diagnosis, the loss of estranged family members, and most of all, the inability to fully achieve what you want in life. I really enjoyed the stories about the main three, but some of the secondary stories dragged a little more. In some ways, the stories all seemed a little too similar. It was a quick read, but in this case that might not have been a good thing.

Crawford Hunt is a Texas Ranger. His wife has died in a car accident. He slips into a bad place, so he lets his in-laws take care of his daughter Georgia. Now he has got his act together and he wants custody of his daughter back. His in-laws are ready for a fight. While in the courtroom to hear the decision of the judge someone comes in and takes shots. The books is great. Very interesting with a few twists and turns. I really enjoyed this one.

Wonderful.

Uncomfortable, dark, intriguing and suspenseful. I couldn’t help but continue on when parts of this book made me cringe. Stephen King is a master at his craft. Mr. Mercedes is no exception, but is also not for the faint of heart. Will Patton narrating this series is excellent. He keeps the reader locked in. Looking forward to the next book already.

Its a novella, which means it is a shorter book. It's a quick read, not an in-depth story. I like the characters but it wasn't long enough to fully develop them. After reading the book, I did go see that there are a few more books in the series. So maybe that is a way to get to know more of the characters. I did like the setting and the background that the author set up for the books. I would recommend it.

This book was great! I really loved getting Gina's perspective and hearing from her, since she doesn't have as large a role in the Hilo series. She is funny and smart and really really a cool character. Hope they have more books with her as the main character!!

This was a quick read. I listened to the the audio version on Overdrive. Peter gives you some different ways to tackle downsizing to get by emotional attachment to items in your own house or in someone else house. I like that he touched on the importance of not taking in things from family members just because they're downsizing doesn't mean they should give it to you.

This was an interesting book mainly set in Cambridge University in England. The Maidens are a group of students who are devoted to a particular professor. Some grisly murders take place and the aunt (and former Cambridge student) of one of the girls who attends the college attempts to solve who is committing them. There are lots of plot twists and I did not guess who did it at all. Definitely a page-turner until the end.