Joyce’s Reviews > The Rizzoli & Isles 8-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold > Status Update

Dental records to the rescue!

Oh, my gosh ... who were those burned bodies in the Suburban wreck if all the passengers trekked out of the wreckage (as far as we readers know)?!

Such a page turner!

A teaspoon of salt + a tablespoon of sugar + a cup of water = poor person’s version of Gatorade.

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During Boston’s long winters, snow meant tiresome shoveling and wet boots and slushy streets. It was merely a fact of life that had to be dealt with until spring. But this snow [in Jackson Hole] seemed different; it was vacation snow …

Vacation snow - love the phrase!

So you just trust in the universe?

I do. And I sleep very well at night. No doubts, no closet full of anxieties. Life’s too short for that. We should just sit back and enjoy the ride.

Life lesson. 😃

I believe that every experience, every wrong decision, teaches us something. That’s why we shouldn’t be afraid to make mistakes.

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Yikes. Prophet Jeremiah Goode was taking 13-year-old Katie Sheldon as his bride?!

Chapter Two takes place 16 years later.

Jeremiah and the Gathering … 64 families who labored, worshipped, and (every Sabbath) broke bread together.

Calls to mind the “Criminal Minds” episode guest-starring the late Luke Perry. 😟

Anthropologists will tell you that a nuclear family is not mother, father, and child. No, it’s mother and child. Fathers come and go. They sail off to sea or they March off to war and often they don’t come home. But mother and child are linked forever. Mother and child are the primordial unit.

Ombrogenous: doesn’t get any water from streams or underground currents, so no added oxygen or nutrients; entirely rain-fed & stagnant - that makes it superacidic

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Bog bodies …

Highly acidic, oxygen poor & contain layers of sphagnum moss

Help arrest decomposition & preserve soft tissues; darken skin

If allowed to steep for centuries, eventually, corpse’s bones dissolve, leaving only preserved flesh, leathery & flexible

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