I got this book in a bag from a friend and dug it out because I was looking for a good murder mystery. I was not too disappointed. The characters were memorable in their down to earth way, but the relationship between Poppy Rice and Joe was awkward. I guess I should have read the previous book to...
In an historical novel based on the 1944 Barnum & Bailey's circus tent fire that killed hundreds, two survivors reexamine their lives and marriage while seeking the fire's true cause. By the author of The Port of Missing Men.
I got frequently distracted during this book by the strange digressions the narrator would take about random topics. They might have been valuable to the plot or maybe provided some insight, but they weren't action, they were just discussions of the history of the Texas correctional system, or s...
Oh, she worried about him all the time because he was a fireman—he’d been burned several times. And he had a bad cough. Some fires he put out released blankets of asbestos dust onto him. But she’d never worried about his hobby. His hobby was not dangerous, his work was. The hobby was a game. Like...