The Execution

THE EXECUTION by Dick Wolf is a Jeremy Fisk novel.  If you've read Mr Wolf you know he is a recurring character.  Mr. Wolf  is on desk duty after a shooting and the loss of his fiancé.  It is United Nations Week in New York and a treaty is being signed by our President and the Mexican President.  But someone does not want this to happen.  Someone who has been beheading certain cartels in Mexico, is now in New York.  He wants someone dead and is giving major warnings to everyone involved.

A CIRCLE OF WIVES

A CIRCLE OF WIVES by Alice LaPlante is a page turner.  When Dr. John Taylor dies in a hotel room in his own hometown, the police wonder if it really was a heart attack.  He had bruises on his body an at the autopsy they find potassium chloride in his system.  And then, many surprises pop up.  Like three wives and much more.  But which one did it or was it a disgruntled patient.  I guessed the murderer but was wrong and couldn't figure out how it happened.  Very good read

AFTER I'M GONE

AFTER I'M GONE by Laura Lippmann will be released in February.  It is a mystery when Felix disappears leaving behind a wife, three daughters and a mistress.  It seems as though the mistress is doing very well while the wife and daughters are just squeaking by.  Why did Felix leave the coffee house to his mistress, Julie and leave nothing for his family?  Maybe, he didn't Bambi, his wife, began to think.  She always thought Julie stole HER money but Bert, his best friend always came to the rescue.  They survived; the daughters grew up to raise families but Bambi never married and always wondered where her husband could be.  Will she ever find out?

DOING HARM

DOING HARM by Kelly Parsons is a great  book.  There were quite a few medical terms, although the author explained them, it made the book wordy.  Dr Mitchell was stuck in a precarious situation caused by a beautiful med student.  The student is killing patients for their safety.?  She was also blackmailing Dr Mitchell.  The trick is how will Dr. Mitchell get out from under her lies and make sure she is caught.  Well, enter Luis.  That's all  I'll tell you.  You must read it. 

THE WIFE, THE MAID, AND THE MISTRESS by Ariel Lawhon

Very good book, I loved it.  A work of fiction with many interesting events and much history.  The judge is murdered by a gangster (which is the true basis) but the why and who put the thought in his head is the mystery.  I enjoyed reading the historical events and this book made me want to read the true accounts of Judge Crater's murder.  Loved it.

ALENA by Rachel Pastan

ALENA by Rachel Pastan is ok.  The authors prose is very poetic and descriptive in a flowery way.  We don't know the speakers name but she is enticed to move from a small Wisconsin town to Cape Cod to be curator of a well-known art museum.  She finds this to be the chance of a lifetime but when she arrives she is immediately confronted by the ghosts of the past curator.  No one can give up Alena's presence.  The narrator becomes so entwined in the mystery that she never leaves although they do open a new museum in a new place yet by the ocean.  The book starts with the speaker going back to the past museum and then remembering the troubles everyone encountered.

IN THE BLOOD by Lisa Unger

Good book.  Surprise ending.  When Lana Granger gets her first grown up job she finds her young charge a force to be reckoned with so to speak.  But are things really as simple as they should be?  When Lana's roommate disappears does Luke, her young charge, know anything about it.  He seems to be on a path to find her roommate, Beck.  But the police suspect Lana after looking into a past friend's death.  There is a surprise at the end I sure didn't see coming for quite a while into the book.  I wasn't sure who was writing in the diary; it could have been Rachel, Lana or Lana's mother who was murdered.  That could be the answer to all of the mysteries.