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  No Rest for the Wicket by Rachel Louise Adams  Published: September 16, 2025 Publisher: St Martins Press /Minotaur books Length: 322 pages Buy: Kindle | Audio  | Hardcover Thank you to Netgalley.com and St. Martins Press for the #Gifted copy of this book. I am leaving this review voluntarily and all opinions are my own.  Dolores hasn’t been home in almost 20 years but when she is informed that her father is missing, she leaves the secure life she built in LA as a forensic pathologist and heads home. Dolores is from a small town in Wisconsin that is known as the Halloween haven and Dolores doesn’t like Halloween.  This is a fabulous debut novel full of secrets from the past, someone hellbent on revenge, an awkward family reunion and missing memories from the past slowly coming back. I love that this small Halloween town is overrun by feral cats and that the police spend half their time tracking them down. The main local police officer has a huge chip on her s...

A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci Published: April 16, 2024 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing  Length: 14 hours 28 Minutes  Buy: Kindle | Audio What a fantastic book. Another 5 star read for me this year and to think when I first started it I didn’t think I was going to like it and stopped to go on to something else only to come back and couldn’t put it down. Oh the life of a mood reader!  Set in Virginia in 1968 a black man is accused of killing a wealthy white couple that he worked for. Jack Lee is an white attorney who has never represented a black defendant. In a time of difficult racial tensions taking this case may cost Jack more than his reputation.  Desiree DuBose is a black attorney who has represented many black defendant, and civil rights cases even taking one to the supreme court. She shows up in town hoping Jack will turn the case over to her but he refuses to let it go and instead she joins him in the case.  There are a lot of moving pieces ...