Never Go Back

Never Go Back by Lee Child

Jack Reacher is recalled to the army to face two criminal charges from years ago. One is a lawsuit brought by a former suspect that accuses Jack of brutally beating a gang member. The other is a complaint by a woman that Jack fathered her child—who is now fourteen years old. Jack suspects that there is a cover up for something else the army doesn’t want known, and he and the commanding officer that took his place are on the run, trying to prove their innocence. As usual, Jack beats up a lot of guys while he’s on the run.

April's Books

Sherlock Holmes is very much a supporting character in this origin story of Professor James Moriarty. While attending a scientific exposition, Moriarty hopes to embarrass a rival of his, but someone else has sabotaged the demonstration, and a man is killed. Sherlock Holmes is called in, and takes a great interest in Moriarty’s background and motives. But Moriarty meets a beautiful woman at the exposition, an American widow in England hoping to meet a future husband with a title, Angelina Gould. But Mrs. Gould isn’t who she appears to be, and is involved in a scheme to help her brother out of a jam.

The author has done a great job in painting a picture of a Moriarty who is content with the simple things in life, and somewhat awkward around a beautiful woman. Quite the different Moriarty who is the criminal mastermind of the Holmes canon. A fun and clever romp through the streets of London with some of our favorite characters.

Moriarty Meets His Match by Anna Castle
Never Go Back by Lee Child
The Grave Maurice by Martha Grimes
Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
The Main Ingredient by Margo Wilson
Polar Bear Dawn by Lyle Nicholson

March's Books

Anything Goes by Richard S. Wheeler

The wild west never gets much in the way of entertainment. But August Beausoleil and his partner Charles Pomerantz are taking their vaudeville show on the road through Montana, Idaho, and Washington state. They have a motley cast of performers. There’s Harry the Juggler, Mrs. McGivers and her monkey band, the Wildroot Sisters, a not overly-talented singing act, Wayne Windsor, known as “The Profile,” who delivers monologues, and Mary Mabel Markey, the star vocalist who can’t deliver a song like she used to. The Beausoleil Brothers Follies struggles to sell tickets as a variety of misfortunes befall them. Wheeler has written more than fifty novels of the American West.

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Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark

Anything Goes by Richard S. Wheeler

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Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Murder at Kensington Gardens by Lee Strauss