When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo police officer, he has an open-and-shut case---until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open.

2 brooms and a gas grill series #11. Stormy is driving home and sees 2 teens standing in the road. Nonresponsive. She calls the law and finds the 2 have been missing 10 years but have not aged. The crew gets together and solves the mystery.

A pleasant fast-paced read that met my bingo square 'Beach Setting' requirement for another SRP. Librarian Lucy lives with Charles [the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library cat] and her fiancé in a historic cottage on Nags Head Beach. Of course, there is a murder and I did not figure out who the murderer was until after Lucy did. It was a fun read on a rainy day. My favorite character was Charles, of course!!

Gray and Hali go to a local festival and visit a psychic who warms them of upcoming trouble. They go home to find the police with a body of a woman who was acquainted with Hali. The later ghouls appear.

I usually really enjoy Margolin's legal thrillers, but his newest fell flat for me and was pretty 'blah'!! My favorite character was the 'crazy artist' - Guido Sabatini - who claims to have been a reincarnated painter who trained with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci!!!

Tried a new (to me author) Emma Cook . She had a deep emotional writing style. She wrote from more than one perspective and intertwined them nicely. This book had some twists and turns not all were necessarily easy to unravel.

This is about kids who are invisible in their school and to the teachers and kids because they speak a different language. No one notices them until they do something really nice and work together.

This was the first memoir I’ve read and I wasn’t sure what to expect. Through her writing, I feel like I truly know her and feel for her tragic upbringing as a child actor.

The newest crime novel by Connelly introduces a new character [Sheriff Detective Stilwell] in a new location [Catalina Island-off the Southern California coast]. I soon grew to enjoy this character and found the book to be fast-paced with several very exciting cat and mouse games at play.

Chee and Leaphorn end up on the same case though they start from 2 different points. Chee goes to help a fellow officer and finds him mudered and his car on fire. He arrested a drunk 80 uear old indian 100 miles from home with expensive liquor, gun, and no vehicle. He also does not drive. Leaphorn ends up being a distant relative of the old man and gets involved that way. The murdered policeman was chasing a person painting the rocks in that area. Eventually all the pieces come to a satisfying end.