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Valerie R. Drees

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Maeve Binchy, PD James, and too many others to name!

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I've read so many books in the last six months or so, they're all beginning to merge in my mind. I'm just so sick of the covid world, the politics of everything, and lack of progress on world issues that matter -- so my antidote has been reading about other lives in other times. It helps a bit, I think.

The downside is that I haven't been motivated to write much of my own stuff. I sent in a short s Read more of this blog post »

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A Killing of Innocents (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #19)

by Deborah Crombie (Goodreads Author)

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Falling in Love (Commissario Brunetti, #24)

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Before She Disappeared (Frankie Elkin, #1)

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It had been a while since I've read any of Anne Perry's books, and Monk was never my favorite, but this one held my interest until near the end. A lot of build-up on the whodunit, and a let down with the ending. I mean, I suspected who the bad guy wa ...more
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This one had all of Crombie's twists and turns and many of her crew of characters. The plot was complex enough that I had several suspects lined up, one of whom was the baddie. All of the loose threads were drawn in at the end, and so, I was sorry to ...more
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