Kris’s Comments (group member since Apr 05, 2013)

Kris’s comments from the What's the Name of That Book??? group.

War of Hearts by S. Young?

Amazon's preview: https://www.amazon.com/War-Hearts-Tru...

Google search of Goodreads:
site:goodreads.com "paranormal romance" werewolf "his sister" "cure" scotland

Paradises by Iosi Havilio?

Amazon's preview: https://www.amazon.com/Paradises-Iosi...

Google search of Goodreads:
site:goodreads.com "fiction" dies "son" "job" "zoo" morphine

Amber, I copied some book details to the topic header. Feel free to edit it.

Just to confirm, is the setting definitely post-Victorian? Early 1900s and onwards?

Was the younger brother referred to as a pirate or smuggler/ privateer?

Great! Glad you found your book, Hannah. Thanks for the update.

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M.T. Anderson

A long shot - Three to Get Deadly (book 3 of the Stephanie Plum series) by Janet Evanovich?

Google Books preview:

- https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
- There are different cover images.

Google search of Goodreads:
site:goodreads.com "mystery" "missing" "candy store owner"

Watch Them Die by Kevin O'Brien?

One Goodreads reviewer says: "... a serial stalker / killer, a protagonist with a dark past that's racing to catch up with her, a series of murders inspired by famous movies ..."

Google Books preview:

- https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
- There are different cover images.

Google search of Goodreads:
site:goodreads.com "thriller" "killer" recreating "famous" "deaths"

Great! Glad you found your book, Rebecca. Thanks for the update.

Google Books preview of A Pocketful of Silver by Anne Baker - Ayshe's suggestion:

- https://www.google.com/books/edition/...

Darkness & Light by John Harvey?

One Goodreads reviewer says: "Frank Harvey comes out of his retirement in Cornwall to help his old Sergeant now Inspector Maureen Prior. A woman has disappeared and her sister asks him to try to find her, while still making enquiries her body turns up dead in her own bed, neatly laid out. She has been strangled. ..."

Google Books preview:

- https://books.google.com/books?id=RWF...
- There are different cover images.

Google search of Goodreads:
site:goodreads.com british "mystery" "retires" "cornwall" "dead in her bed"

Marie, I copied a few details to the topic header. Feel free to edit it.

Lana, can you recall any details like...

- Best friends, neighbors, friend from the past?
- Night time, raining, winter, etc.?
- Rural setting, suburbs, big city, etc.?

Book mentioned by Chris - Great Western Starsby James Robert Parish

Colin is still looking for this book:

"Existential YA book

Hello, I posted about this same book a couple years ago, but never found any results. I don't remember a lot of details, but I remembered parts of it
1) The book opens with the main character hearing a news broadcast about either splitting the atom, or the disappearance of atoms. This leads to a mental breakdown throughout the novel where the main character starts to panic about their place in the world, and how they will eventually disappear.
2) the main character has 2 friends and an "annoying" sister. At one point I remember they all go stargazing, and then when the main character goes back to grab something, and sees their 2 friends kissing, which also sets them off.
3) there's also a scene where the main character has a conversation with their friend's dad, all about the existential crisis the main character is experiencing
Hopefully someone out here recognizes something from this book, I remember I read it in the early 2010s, but the book seemed to be set in the 80s or the 90s possibly"

Great! Glad you found your book, Bluejay. Thanks for the update.

Thanks Siera. I copied some book details to the topic header. Feel free to edit it.

Chris is still looking for this book:

"Short Novel About American Indian Boy On The Edge Of Manhood

I remember buying this short novel in about the mid-1980s. It was a story about a native American boy on the verge of manhood hunting in the woods, possibly in winter. I think he was pursuing a specific animal - possibly a wolf but not certain. I think there might have been a wise father figure in the book. I do not remember if the boy was successful in his hunt, but at the very end of the book there was brief mention of the free life of the Indians coming to an end, and of the people having to go onto reservations. I think the cover had an image of the hunter and/or an animal among trees, and I remember it being largely blue. The author might have been named Tim or Kim"

Starr, are you still looking for this book - or did you find it?

Katherine, what are the main characters' jobs?

I copied some book details to the topic header. Feel free to edit it.

Megan, around what year did you read this book?

What are the main characters' jobs?

Story's location/ country?