Finished Now and Then by Robert B. Parker. This is the latest book in his long-running Spenser series, about a Boston private investigator. In this one, an FBI agent hires Spenser to find out if his wife is cheating on him. She is, but that’s not the worst part — she’s also letting classified information slip to her lover, who’s the subject of →

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Finished Ice Blue by Anne Stuart. This is the third book in her Ice romantic suspense series. This one is about Summer Hawthorne, a museum curator determined to keep a valuable Japanese ceramic bowl out of the hands of a cult leader named Shirosama. What Summer doesn’t realize is that Shirosama wants the bowl as part of a ceremony where he →

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Finished Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. This post contains some spoilers so if you haven’t read the book yet, you may want to skip this one. This is a young adult novel about Bella Swan, who goes to live with her father in Forks, Wash., and falls in love with Edward Cullen, a beautiful boy who just happens to be a →

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And now to talk about the last book I read in 2007 — The Seventh by Richard Stark (aka Donald E. Westlake). This is another Parker novel. When the book opens, Parker is holding the loot for a robbert he just pulled with six other guys. He goes out for beer and cigarettes, and when he comes back, he finds →

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As those of you who read the blog know, I keep a running tab of all the books I’ve read. I’m up to 850 so far. I finished a book this weekend I’d already read (although I don’t remember reading it before). So, to keep the numbers right between my database and blog, I’m going to review this one without giving it a number. Make →

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