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Paradise Valley
And so ends my chaotic run at the Cody Hoyt/Cassie Dewell series — right in the middle, when the serial killer known as The Lizard King is finally rendered extinct like his tyrannranous namesake. Here, Cassie is still a lead … Continue reading
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Back of Beyond
Who’s up for a horror movie, western style? The story begins when an older man is found dead in his half-burned cabin, with a hole in his head and an empty bottle of liquor beside him. When Cody Hoyt arrives … Continue reading
Treasure State
Who watches the watchers? Or in this case, who investigates private investigators? Cassie Dewell is intrigued by an odd phone call she gets: a wealthy Florida patron had hired a P.I. to investigate a man who swindled her out of … Continue reading
Worth Reading: A Guide to Surviving the Great Forgetting
My substack subscriptions have an obvious cluster concerning humanity and the machine — or more specifically, how modern technology, particularly devices and the omnipresent digital world, warp or distort humanity. I was fortunate to encounter The Shallows and Neil Postman’s … Continue reading
The Highway
I am evidently reading the Cassie Dewell series in the most chaotic way possible, because I’m three books in and have only just finished #1. The Highway introduces Cassie Dewell, a sheriff’s inspector working in Montana who has been manipulated … Continue reading
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The Bitterroots
Cassie Dewell, formerly of law enforcement, is now a private investigator. Exhausted by dealing with corrupt or obfuscating police bureaucracy, she’s put out her own shingle. Now, in service to a defense attorney with a horrible case in front of … Continue reading
Favorite Song Lyrics & WWW Wednesday
Today’s prompt from Long and Short reviews is “Favorite Song Lyrics“, which is ridiculous. If you know me, you know I’m always listening to music and singing, even in the library, which has gotten me in trouble before. (‘Whistle while … Continue reading
Oddly Specific Things I Love in Books
Marian of Classics Considered has tagged me in a meme, the rules of which are: The Outline One is done, ditto two and three. Four is funny because Alabama does not have a transition from summer into fall. We don’t … Continue reading
Frequently Asked Questions
Nearly twenty years ago, before I donned my first cardigan and became Liberry Man (this phrase has been shouted at me in grocery store parking lots), I loved an online comic strip called Unshelved, which was set in a library … Continue reading
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