Imagine being a detective in the United Kingdom dealing with cross cultures of India, England, Holland and discovering babies are being stolen, mass marketed, women are taken from the third world, forced to be sex slaves and surrogate mothers. Yet your hands are tied by red tape. You know twin newborn babies were stolen from their mother.......and you can't even nab the slimy criminals you let slip through your own hands on the Night Ferry crossing from Holland to England. This book is worth checking out at the Library or purchasing just to find out if the twin babies are restored to their mother. Don't miss this tale woven through spectacular locations and suspense.
High Profile by Robert B. Parker (G.P. Putnam Sons, 2007, www.robertbparker.net) is one of Robert Parker's Jesse Stone novels you must not miss. Jesse's small town, but skillful, police crew must solve a mystery of how a man came to be hanging from a tree (postmortem no less), however none of the relatives of the deceased want to claim him even though he is a high profile broadcaster from a big city. Another mystery baffles this brilliant chief of police when a female body turns up dead in a bizarre fashion several days later. Do you think it took me a week to read this book? My curiosity genes had to know why someone would hang a lifeless guy in a small time Massachusetts tourist town and just how was Jesse Stone going to solve two murders when he had extremely little forensic evidence or information from family members. I turned the pages without realizing the hours had slithered its way into dawn. Plan on reading this one through the night or several nights if you're not a night owl like me. Robert Parker never disappoints his readers. His writing style is concise and the best in this genre. Catch his other books listed on his web site if you are not familiar with his writing. Many of his books have been made in to television shows and movies, including the Jesse Stone novels with Tom Selleck starring as Jesse.
Christians jump into a fun twist of mystery by Cyndy Salzman. Not one drop of blood or dead body jumps out to ruin your precious sleep in Cyndy's delectable novels. I do mean delectable as well as delightful mysteries. In the first novel Dying to Decorate you fall in love with Elizabeth Harris, resident of Omaha, Nebraska, mother, wife and your basic middle aged gal who loves Jesus and her best friends Lucy, Jessie, Marina, Mary, Alice and Kelly. Why do you fall in love with her? In all the struggles of Elizableth (Liz) and her friends you realize that you are in her shoes and you wish you had a club like they do which they call the Friday Afternoon Club-where they can meet together to let their hair hang down and be themselves with little pressure, where they can get support from the female persuasion. The ladies also confess they are not the clutter free, laundry queen or super mom of their homes or even model wives.
Lucy discovers this group support becomes her LIFE SUPPORT when she inherits a Civil War-era mansion in Locust Hill. There the gals discover a secret door to a hidden room containing a quilt sporting blood stains and a journal yellowed by time. It has a very telling story. Intrigue builds when Lucy receives a letter from her aunt begging her not to sell the antiquated house even when it is full of mystery and in disrepair. What is Lucy to do?
The pages are filled with sacrificial love from all the women and God. Great recipes are inserted throughout the entire book. Each character will seem like gals you sit next to on the pews at your own church. You will laugh with them and cry with them. Buy the book today so you can use the recipes year after year.
Cyndy Salzman doesn't disappoint us gals. She brings the Friday Afternoon Club back to us in the story Crime and Clutter. ( both books are published by Howard Publishing 2005, 2007 www.howardpublishing.com) Mary Alice inherits a 1963 Volkswagen bus full of clutter. The clutter bug gals use their Friday afternoon to meet so the can assist her in de-cluttering the storage space where the VW bus has been housing the memories of Mary Alice's hippy father. These are Memories of the 1960's she'd rather forget ever existed and she does not want her friends to know any thing about her past! Marina, ever the snoopy, vigilant, cop is not going to let mysterious information sit in a dumpster when Mary Alice tosses it to the metal grave. Pandora's box is opened with bits and pieces of wild, flower power of the 60's when Marina rescues the document. The Friday Afternoon Club gets caught up in crazy intrigue that will keep you up at night...between the times you are cooking all the recipes Cyndy included throughout this book too. Your FAC friends will surprise you in this story.
Special Note: I wish you could all meet Cyndy in person. She is one of those people that you just want to hug when you first meet her. Warmth and friendliness radiates from her making you feel like you really matter to her. Her genuineness shows God's love in such a special way you don't want to leave her presence. I seriously doubt she realizes this about herself. When I have been around her in a crowd or a small group she has always been this way around people. She could be really tired or even hurting, yet somehow other people mattered more than herself. Her smile is really nice. Now she is not Hollywod beautiful, but rather the kind of pretty that is "mom is the most pretty mom on the block and cozy wonderful too". Please go to her web site:
cyndysalzman.com She is a clutter clean up specialist, a great Christian gal and a good writer. Buy her books, write to her and tell her that I love her dearly.
Thanks Peggy Cavnar
P.S. Have a great time reading. Please post your comments and book recommendations too. Keep in mind that I am having surgery so it may be a while before I post more reviews or write up more comments about some great authors for you to research. I'll be reading lots of books while I recover! If you are a Christian please pray for me. Thanks.
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