"4th of July" by James Patterson

4^th of July by James Patterson is about Lindsay, a good San Francisco cop who is charged with wrongful death, using excessive force, police misconduct when she shot two teens in self-defense.  Sara died immediately and her younger brother was paralyzed from his neck down.  The trial was very good!  While suspended, she goes away and solves more murders in another town where her sister lives, including the unsolved murder that haunted her for many years.

 

I liked the trial part of this book a lot with the story line of the good cop being accused of wrong doing but after the trial, the book focused on a string of murders that Lindsay, the "super cop" manages to solve by herself.   It's an interesting read if you like super detectives and murder mysteries.  I was surprised at the ending and it moved along quickly.
(Karen's review, 4 stars)

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"The Dog Next Door" - A Book for Dog Lovers!

The Dog Next Door edited by Callie Smith Grant is a collection of short true stories about people with dogs they love and why their dog meant so much to them.  It is by no means a “page-turner” but it is a heartwarming, relaxing read that shows how strong the bond can be between owner and dog.  I recommend it to any dog lover. 

(Karen's review, 4 stars)

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"Leaving Time" by Jodi Picoult

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult is about a young girl named Jenna who is searching for her mom.  She enlists a psychic and a detective to help her.  Her mom worked with elephants.  As the story leads back to why her mom is missing, you learn a lot about elephants.  I found the information about the elephants interesting, but the story about her mom missing was good too.  I liked it but didn’t love it.  

(Gerard's review, 5 stars)

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Unbroken: An Olympian’s Journey From Airman to Castaway to Captive by Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken:  An Olympian’s Journey From Airman to Castaway to Captive (The Young Adult Adaptation of Unbroken) by Laura Hillenbrand is an amazing and fascinating non-fiction novel.  With never a dull moment, Louie Zamperini’s adventurous story kept my attention from beginning to end.  Just when you think things couldn’t possibly get any worse for him, they do!  It’s hard to believe he actually survived drifting on a life raft in the Pacific ocean for 47 days and then being tortured and humiliated as a POW. 

I highly recommend this to anyone!  It is well researched and very informative, giving me insight into a life of a POW that I had no clue about.  Unimaginable horrific things actually happened to our POW’s during World War II.  I was afraid this was going to read like a history book, but it really doesn’t.  It is very well written and stayed on my mind long after I put it down.   I found it astonishing that Louie lived to be 97 after all he went through. 

(Karen's review, 5 stars)

 

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Teaser Tuesday: 3 For You

Since MizB over at Should be Reading is taking a break for the holidays and not posting the teaser meme, feel free to leave your link to your teaser post in the comments here.

Gerard's:
  
Sometimes I think of my life as two train cars hitched together at the moment of my mom's disappearance--but when I try to see how they connect there's a jarring on the track that jerks my head back around.  I know that I used to be a girl whose hair was strawberry blond, who ran around like a wild thing while my mother took endless notes about the elephants.

From page 26 of Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult.

Karen's: 

Right or wrong, rash or not, she was married now.  She’d just have to make the best of her new situation.  And hope that she hadn’t made the worst mistake of her life.

Pg. 57 from Love Unexpected by Jody Hedlund. (Click link to see my review.)

They'd been adrift for twenty-seven days and had floated at least one thousand miles.  The rafts were turning to jelly.  The men's bodies were pocked with salt sores, their burned lips so swollen they pressed into their nostrils and chins.

From Loc. 99 (Introduction) on Kindle from Unbroken (The Young Adult Abridged version) by Laura Hillenbrand.


Happy Reading!