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The Falls #5
Making a List, Checking It Twice
It's Christmas time in The Falls. The town is just getting ready to welcome in the joy, love and warmth of the season, when a local petty criminal is found shot to death in a stand of Christmas trees! Follow Sheriff Cash Green, Deputy Ericka Yamato, Doc Stone, and Dr. Meg Monroe as they set about to find out who is using a Naughty List to bring some vigilantee justice to The Falls! Join Sean Frasier, his brother William and Dr, Serafina as they help track down the guilty party. Lots of Christmas cheer, small town interactions and a puzzling "who dunit". Welcome back to The Falls!
272 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 28, 2012
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December 20, 2018
Stunning - absolutely fantastic read
Wow, just wow. I haven't read anything by this author before but I am speechless as to how great this was. Okay we all knew the culprit right from the first but by the end of the book I must admit that i she'd a few tears. What wonderful characters - complex, vibrant and so real you could almost touch the. The only slight criticism i have is some of the proofing especially when the wrong name was used. A terrific portrayal of a small community and the way the residents interacted with each other. Grandma Mia has been working hard to make presents for all the children. Cookies for others and special presents for the people that she felt had tirelessly helped others without thinking of any gain that they might get for themselves. However since her husband Kris had died she had also started a naughty list. A list of the dregs of their community. When a body turns up at the Barn, the autopsy shows that he was shot three times and the bullets had coal embedded in their tips. As the sheriff and his deputies look into the killing, the dead man's brother arrives secretly into town. His brother might have a rap sheet a mile long but his was much worse. The only thought he had was to kill the person that had slurred his family name. No-one did that and lived to tell the tale. Add in assaults, threats, another killing and a community that loves their Grandma Mia for a read that is one of the best I've read in a while. Terrific!!
Wow, just wow. I haven't read anything by this author before but I am speechless as to how great this was. Okay we all knew the culprit right from the first but by the end of the book I must admit that i she'd a few tears. What wonderful characters - complex, vibrant and so real you could almost touch the. The only slight criticism i have is some of the proofing especially when the wrong name was used. A terrific portrayal of a small community and the way the residents interacted with each other. Grandma Mia has been working hard to make presents for all the children. Cookies for others and special presents for the people that she felt had tirelessly helped others without thinking of any gain that they might get for themselves. However since her husband Kris had died she had also started a naughty list. A list of the dregs of their community. When a body turns up at the Barn, the autopsy shows that he was shot three times and the bullets had coal embedded in their tips. As the sheriff and his deputies look into the killing, the dead man's brother arrives secretly into town. His brother might have a rap sheet a mile long but his was much worse. The only thought he had was to kill the person that had slurred his family name. No-one did that and lived to tell the tale. Add in assaults, threats, another killing and a community that loves their Grandma Mia for a read that is one of the best I've read in a while. Terrific!!
December 20, 2014
1½ stars.
Sort of like Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegone only set in rural Vermont, but unfortunately nowhere nearly as well written.
I could probably have put up with the problems with punctuation (sadly commonplace nowadays), the terrible editing (or lack thereof), the awful font, the lack of chapters, and perhaps even the misuse of words (using "succeeded" when "seceded" was meant for example), if only there had been a mystery. However the killer is revealed almost immediately so it isn't really a mystery and the author doesn't quite get enough tension going to qualify it as a thriller. Conversely, I could have put up with the lack of mystery if the writing and formating had been better.
Sort of like Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegone only set in rural Vermont, but unfortunately nowhere nearly as well written.
I could probably have put up with the problems with punctuation (sadly commonplace nowadays), the terrible editing (or lack thereof), the awful font, the lack of chapters, and perhaps even the misuse of words (using "succeeded" when "seceded" was meant for example), if only there had been a mystery. However the killer is revealed almost immediately so it isn't really a mystery and the author doesn't quite get enough tension going to qualify it as a thriller. Conversely, I could have put up with the lack of mystery if the writing and formating had been better.
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