Author: Graham Greene
I only read this book because of the book “The Unquiet Daughter”. For the first couple of chapters I was trying to match the characters in the novel with the characters in the memoir. It was much more interesting when I gave up on that idea. The book was not really my kind of story – men in Vietnam reporting on war long before war “the” Vietnam War. As for a corresponding match between the two books, I didn’t see it.
Goodreads Rating * * *
Author: Liane Moriarty
Many years ago, in a small community, a young girl is murdered. Throughout the book we see the anguish this has caused her mother and the blame she places on the man (who was then a boy) whom she believes to be the murderer. In that same small town a young mother sails through life with everything neatly planned out for her husband and her three children. And returning to that small community is a young mother who is reeling from devastating news about her beloved husband. The stories connect before many chapters have passed and the reader is torn deciding what to do with the dilemmas that confront the women.
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Author: Danielle Flood
I’m not sure what prompted me to load this book onto my Kindle but I really enjoyed it.
The author spent most of her life trying to identify who her father was; the man she lived with and presumed to be her father turned out not to be. At different times during her life her mother gave her the names of several men who she claimed were the father. After the author’s step-father left the family she became no more than a servant (or slave) to her mother, always wondering why she wasn’t loved and trying to keep her circumstances hidden. As an adult she is able to find her father; it was a long and convoluted path and she had very little time to spend with him before he died.
The author feels very strongly that it is her parents’ story that is told in the book The Quiet American by Graham Greene. You can be sure I’ve added that one to my list.
Goodreads Rating ****
Author: Michael Lister
Double ExposureA forward by Michael Connelly (a favourite author) says that less is more in this book – and he was right. Very limited dialogue and short sentences (sometimes just one word) portray the fear when Remington James inadvertently captures a murder on his camera and then is pursued by a group of men out to prevent him from getting his photos to the police.
A detective, John Jordan, who appears briefly at the end of Double Exposure is out to solve a decades-old murder that an innocent man has been convicted for. There are a number of older cases mentioned (no doubt from one of the author’s many books), but that didn’t get in the way of the story.
Blood Shot
John Jordan is back and this time he is out to solve the Remington James case. Told in Then and Now chapters most of the book Double Exposure is repeated here. It made for a quick read though as I could skip almost half the chapters. That repeat is the only reason this didn’t rate five stars.
Goodreads Rating ****
