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hark!

This was not my favorite Ed McBain book. The entire story centered around a cat-and-mouse-game between the perpetrator and the police. I mean, does that ever actually happen? Consequently, despite clocking in just under 300 pages, this took me way too long to read. My rating: 3/5

natural causes

This was a pretty engaging medical thriller written by the author Michael Palmer. I’ve been having trouble finding time to read in recent years (thanks Netflix and Hulu), but I made time each night to read this. My rating: 3.5/5

e is for evidence

Another one from Grafton’s alphabet series. For whatever reason, this was even more engaging than most. There was a seemingly unnecessarily weird twist at the end, though. It is impossible to guess the culprit in these novels, but I guess that’s what keeps me coming back for more. My rating: …

anxious people

This book is a departure from what I normally read. There was a bit of comedy going on, but it was a story about a bank robbery that went wrong and turned into a hostage situation at a real estate open house, which the would-be bank robber ended up at. …