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[lolakimono]

I'm reading this now-

When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back?
For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver’s seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate.

Did one of the ghosts from Rainie’s troubled past finally catch up with her? Or could her disappearance be the result of one of the cases they’d been working– a particularly vicious double homicide or the possible abuse of a deeply disturbed child Rainie took too close to heart? Together with his daughter, FBI agent Kimberly Quincy, Pierce is battling the local authorities, racing against time, and frantically searching for answers to all the questions he’s been afraid to ask.

One man knows what happened that night. Adopting the alias of a killer caught eighty years before, he has already contacted the press. His terms are clear: he wants money, he wants power, he wants celebrity. And if he doesn’t get what he wants, Rainie will be gone for good.

Sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, it’s still not enough.
As the clock winds down on a terrifying deadline, Pierce plunges headlong into the most desperate hunt of his life, into the shattering search for a killer, a lethal truth, and for the love of his life, who may forever be…gone.

[smoky22]

I read Cold, Cold Heart by Tami Hoag. I should say I read about 100 pages and skimmed the rest. These books are so predictable. I'm really not sure why I read it. I guess these thrillers are just not my genre.

I'm almost finished with Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. The book is about the fact that most doctors don't know how to have a serious discussion with people about the end of life. They just want to do whatever it takes to prolong someone's life, no matter that it's for a very short time, or that it makes that person utterly miserable at the end. This is a very dry book, though, and not that interesting. Most of it seemed like common sense to me.

colinka, A Pleasure and a Calling sounds interesting. I like when a book is a little out of the ordinary.

[number one queen]

I just recived from amazon PeterRobinson, newest book, not even over here yet! It was such a thrill to open a package from England and smell the pages of the book, Blue albitoir, is the newest.

[pateacher]

Currently, I am reading Gray Mountain- John Grisham, predictable and not much meat here.

Last week I reread The Dovekeepers-Alice Hoffman in preparation for the tv movie. The movie did not do the novel justice, imho.

Next on my list is At the Water's Edge-Sara Gruen, who also wrote Water for Elephants.

[lolakimono]

I just started this-

When Olivia, wild-haired and headstrong, makes a terrible mistake, she must turn to the person least likely to help—her mother, Elaine.

Motherhood was a role that Elaine never embraced and her best never amounted to much. But now Olivia faces prosecution for a naïve connection to a drug deal and she needs Elaine more than ever. As the days count down and Olivia's future hangs in the balance, Elaine must decide just how much she is willing to give for a second chance with her daughter.

[joannecha]

Just started Harlan Coben's newest, "The Stranger" last night. I'm about halfway through & I think I will have to have a marathon reading session until it's finished. Just discovered author Laura Lippman and have, "And When She Was Good" on deck. 4 books on hold from the library may be in today, so that would make for one very happy reading addict. I usually get ideas for new authors from either Book Page or Goodreads, but lately I've been combing through this forum for new ideas. We all get stuck in a rut with our favorite authors/genres, so it's nice to break out of that shell once in a while. Thanks for all the great ideas.

[Honeybit]

lolakimono -- Great job of describing Lisa Gardner's GONE. Thanks for your review!

[BornToShop]

I continue to highly recommend this new mystery suspense writer; PETER SWANSON. His first is THE GIRL WITH A CLOCK FOR A HEART & his newest is THE KIND WORTH KILLING. He is a refreshing addition to the otherwise circle of renowned authors who put out a new release every other week &, who are not even writing their own books anymore.

[DiAnne]

I just finished After I am Gone by Laura Lippman. First book of hers I have read but definitely not the last!

"When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative--if not all legal--businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband--or his money--might be, she suspects one woman does: his mistress, Julie. When Julie disappears ten years to the day that Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her old lover--until her remains are eventually found. Now, twenty-six years after Julie went missing, Roberto "Sandy" Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder. What he discovers is a tangled web stretching over three decades that connects five intriguing women. And at the center is the missing man Felix Brewer. Somewhere between the secrets and lies connecting past and present, Sandy will find the truth. And when he does, no one will ever be the same" -- from publisher's web site.

[Judaline]

I'm reading Serena. I like it but it is very slow going. I wonder if I should just wait for the movie? I don't like her at all. She gives me the creeps. There is something lying deep down I just know it and I guess that's what keeps me going.