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Cassandra Chan
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I read something awhile ago that's been niggling at me ever since. It has to do with the last Harry Dresden book, "Ghost Story" by Jim Butcher. It was this guy's opinion that the series had jumped the shark with this book, basically because the book didn't push the overall story further, it was just about Harry dealing with being dead, and everyone else dealing with Harry being dead, too.
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Village Affairs (Phillip Bethancourt and Jack Gibbons Mysteries #2)
— published 2006 — 4 editions |
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The Young Widow (Phillip Bethancourt and Jack Gibbons Mysteries #1)
— published 2005 — 5 editions |
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A Spider on the Stairs (Phillip Bethancourt and Jack Gibbons Mysteries, #4)
— published 2009 — 3 editions |
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Trick of the Mind (Phillip Bethancourt and Jack Gibbons Mysteries #3)
— published 2008 |
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"This is one of Crissie's all-time favorites from long ago. I'm liking it so far, and it certainly does very well when my brain is just too tired to parse "Christianity: the first 3,000 years.""
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"Here's the review that got me interested in this book:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Meacham-t.html?scp=1&sq=christianity:%20the%20first%20three%20thousand%20years&st=cse"
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This is a bloody brilliant book. I loved it. You will love it, too. It is now my official prediction for the NYT fall & Christmas bestseller list. It's beautifully crafted. Practically every chapter is a single scene, and a lot of time passes betw...more |
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“Gibbons wondered vaguely if he was becoming a morphine addict. He had certainly dosed himself into a stupid on account of the hideous pain resulting from the nurse's insistence that he get up and sit in a chair. He rather thought that being a drug addict would interfere with his career as a police detective, but that didn't seem to matter as much as it had a little while ago.”
― Cassandra Chan, Trick of the Mind
― Cassandra Chan, Trick of the Mind
“I hate this case,' stated Gibbons unequivocally. 'I don’t know what really happened, I shall probably never know what really happened, and I shall still be a detective sergeant when I’m sixty.”
― Cassandra Chan, Village Affairs
― Cassandra Chan, Village Affairs
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