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Flamingo Fatale by Jimmie Ruth Evans

“Wanda Nell Culpepper’s tough life isn’t getting any easier. After a full day slinging hash at Kountry Kitchen and then surviving the graveyard shift at Budget Mart, she returns to her trailer park for some shut-eye only to find her no-account ex-husband, Bobby Ray, flashing cash and stirring up trouble. She reckons things can’t get much worse – until the next day when she finds her missing pink flamingo stuck in his very dead body. Now the Sheriff is out to pin her for the murder, and the real bad guys have her in their sights. But she’s come this far on wits and guts, so with the help of her gun-toting best friend, Wanda Nell decides to stand and fight for her freedom and her life.”

Absolutely LOVED this book! What a great start to the Trailer Park mystery series!! I can’t wait to read the rest of them!!

The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin

“The Mathematics of Love is a poignant chronicle of two people, separated by centuries, whose lives—amazingly, impossibly—become interwoven in a brilliant tapestry of tragedy, memory, and time. Following alternate but intimately connected stories—of a curious, promiscuous teenager in her season of exile and awakening in the English countryside in 1976, and a nineteenth-century soldier damaged on the fields of Waterloo, struggling to find his way back to life with the help of a compassionate, extraordinary woman—Emma Darwin’s breathtaking narrative brilliantly evokes the horrors of war, the pain of loss, the heat of passion, and the enduring power of love.”

Read 20 pages and could not read another word. I could not get into this book at all. Not recommended.

Sudden Death by Allison Brennan

“Heroic Justice

When a homeless veteran is found dead in a squalid Sacramento alley, FBI special agent Megan Elliott vows to find the murdered hero’s killer. Her investigation gets complicated fast, for the victim, a former Delta Force soldier, is just one link in a nationwide spree of torture and murder.

Straight off a job rescuing medical missionaries, soldier-for-hire Jack Kincaid returns to his home base in the Texas border town of Hidalgo only to receive the news that one of his closest colleagues–also ex-military–has been brutally murdered. Faced with an inept local police force, Jack takes matters into his own hands.

Now, as part of a national task force to stop the sadistic killings, by-the-book Megan and burn-the-book Jack form a tense alliance, sparked with conflict and temptation. But they struggle against more than passion, for a vicious pair of killers has only just begun a rampage of evil . . . and the primary target is much closer than Megan suspects.”

Loved this book! Very suspenseful until the end! Great start to a new trilogy! Can’t wait to read more!! Highly recommended!!

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

“Every gift has a price . . .
Every piece of lace has a secret . . .
My name is Towner Whitney. No, that’s not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time. . . .
Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of The Lace Reader, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations, but the disappearance of two women brings Towner home to Salem and the truth about the death of her twin sister to light.”

Overall, I really loved this story! I want to go back and re-read it after knowing the ending, though!! I recommend it!