false 14 2010 1958 true 5627525 read 1 true 2854577 currently-reading 51 true 2854576 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/6581.Q_A_with_Garrett_Cook Randy joined the Q&A with Garrett Cook group. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79897274 I, Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #16) by James Patterson
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79551034 to: The Blackfoot Trail (Paperback) by Charles G. West
Joe Fox was found beside a dead woman at age three, probably his mother. Raised as a member of the Blackfeet, obviously his father had been white.
He spoke only one word, "Joe" and that became his name, the Fox the name of the creek beside which he'd been found.

While away at eighteen, a Crow war party attacked the village and his parents were among the dead. He led a war party of Blackfeet that tracked and found the attackers. In the battle, he killed two.

Going up into the mountains to find a vision of what to do, Joe never returned, eventually becoming a legend among the tribes. Rarely any congress with anyone, he was surprised when two men came looking and yelling his name. He was even more surprised when he agreed to help them find a party of family and friends that had gotten lost while heading for the Oregon territory. The guide they hired wasn't very expert.

He convinces the band of religious folks that it was to late in the season to get through the mountains before the snows and leads them to a valley to winter.

He finds an attraction to the party leader's daughter, Callie Simmons, as does she to him. Mom is not happy, believing her daughter deserves better, forcing Dad to set the man straight. Insulted, he leaves, returning to his mountains.

The one they should have been worried about was a bear-like man named Starbeau who had invited himself along early in the trip. Surly and uncooperative, during an Indian attack, he robs the band, murders a couple, and kidnaps Callie, heading out.

Her father and one more go looking for Joe, hat in hand, for help, not sure whether he would after the way he'd been treated.

They didn't know Joe. Nothing would stop him, not even a two week old trail. Using all his wiles and knowledge of the territory, he starts after them. He knows Callie's life will last only as long as Starbeau doesn't reach any settlements before he can find them.

]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79788117 Blackmail & Lace (Paperback) by Daniel Ransom
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79742497 Stargate Universe: Air (Mass Market Paperback) by James Swallow
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79742476 Mr. Monk in Trouble (Hardcover) by Lee Goldberg
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79551108 Savagery of The Mountain Man (Paperback) by William W. Johnstone
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79550984 The Trailsman #337: Silver Showdown (Paperback) by Jon Sharpe
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75870718 to: Creede of Old Montana (Western Standard Series) by Stephen A. Bly
Loved this one.

Billed as a Christian western, I didn't know what to expect going in.

Avery John Creed, looking for four army buddies that missed a reunion, breaks up a bank robbery in Fort Benton, which runs him afoul of an outlaw leader named Rinkman.

Suspicion falls on him when the banker says $500 of the loot is missing. When the amount grows to $5,000, Creede begins to realize he should never have stopped in town.

He goes through a series of adventures with his nephew that are often humorous as people try to kill him or get him to leave town.

His biggest fear, and uncertainty, is the two women competing for him. One, a rich girl from the East he's engaged to and the other, a poor country girl, the sister of one of his buddies. He likes both but is not sure he's right for either. Very perplexing. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72555191 to: Blood Moon (Robert Payne, Book 1) by Ed Gorman
Former FBI forensic psychologist Robert Payne takes on a case that the previous investigator had died in the middle of, run down by a hit and run driver. The woman says the wrong person, a teenager, was arrested.

The case is to find out who killed her twelve year old daughter, one of a number of young girls found with broken necks and mutilate bodies. The woman had received a letter from the man a couple of days after his death detailing his investigation to that point. Three suspects had been developed.

That's all Payne had to go when he started.

The case gets more complex when he gets pulled into looking for a kidnapped eight year old girl that may be connected. Needing to keep the police oblivious, it isn't easy as there is a woman police chief he's becoming close to(and vice versa).

Sprinkled throughout are chapters told from the viewpoint of this unknown killer talking about his days in prison and the escape planned with one of those women enamored of convicts.

The author keeps you guessing all the way through, throwing in several plot twists that turns the case around, right up to the bloody finale. ]]>