I just finished reading the entire Righteous series. I guess that means that I liked them, at least they sure kept me hooked all the way through! It was a tough subject that Mr. Wallace tackled, namely the followers of polygamy and the fundamentalist Christian groups in Utah. I give him credit th...
A murder mystery set among a polygamist settlement in Utah. The outside world is not informed and one of their own is sent from another settlement to investigate the killing of a sister wife. In addition to reluctantly check out two potential husbands for his 17-yearold sister.The writer was rais...
I normally do not read murder mysteries, but I was curious. On one hand, I felt like an outsider because I do not know much about the culture, religion(s) and communities discussed in the book. Thus, relating to characters was difficult in the beginning. At times, especially as the reader lear...
I got this trilogy on Amazon, it looked like it could be good. Accidentally started with #2. It's references to the LDS church are not favorable. Granted, neither are the references to all the splinter churches but his generalizations bothered me. He also talks about things that makes it obvious ...
The Red Rooster by Michael Wallace and read by Rosemary Benson. During WWII occupied France you were either a collaborator or part of the resistance. Different people took on different roles. Gabriella was another 20 something living in France trying to survive not only the war but the day to da...
The injured griffin was still there, perched on the rock and tugging at the arrow. It let out a low keen. What now? It wouldn’t be easy. There was a reason nobody flew a golden griffin. When Daria’s people had extra fledglings, they released them into the wild. Legend had it that a lost tribe of ...
The king had bathed and dressed and ordered his chambers cleaned, but he was still too weak to be out. Instead of resting, however, he sat in the King’s Room high in Sanctuary Tower. Daniel signed decrees and issued levies to raise money for the war, but looked up to wave Markal into the room wit...
She’d been sitting so long in one place that her back ached, and her semiparalyzed left leg was thrumming like a piece of sheet metal in a windstorm. When she drove with Jacob he would pull over every half hour or so to recline her chair, move her legs, or otherwise give her relief, but she wasn’...
They’d left half their tents. Shirts and women’s skirts flapped on a clothesline. An ax lay embedded in a log. Dishes soaked in a tub of soapy water. A teddy bear sat in front of one tent, staring through beaded eyes across the camp. Jacob tore open tent flaps while his father and Stephen Paul st...
Before his death at the hands of a ravager, the wizard had seemed blessed with eternal youth, as if the rich soil of Aristonia itself had kept his curly, golden hair lustrous, his skin fresh and young, and his body lean and flexible. Only his eyes had been old, and if you looked into them, you co...
Laura and Maude joined me to confront Sister Annabelle about the angel. We found her in Witch’s Warts, her bare feet buried in the cool sand beneath a sandstone arch. Two boys had discovered the arch stretching between a pair of sandstone fins, and when the weather turned exceeding hot, kids woul...
He’d have rather been up with Whelan overlooking the battlefield, instead of hurrying back and forth between the three mines tunneling toward the city walls. Whelan had set up four trebuchets to hurl stones at the city walls of Veyre. The stones crashed with thunderous booms, but there was little...
Lorenzo turned as if to stare at the spire of a distant village church, or study their surroundings whenever they approached the woods. In reality, he was stealing glances at Marco and Lucrezia. They’d begun their shared journey sitting on opposite sides of the back row of...
His blood simmered whenever he saw their Lincoln driving around town. They sat in the diner, munching burgers and coming out to sit on the hood of their car and eat creemies, just watching people pass. Brother Peterson refused to serve them at first and Brother Wentworth at the gas station wouldn...
Her expression was cheery, her smile broad. When she looked at it, she could scarcely believe that it had been taken before one of the ugliest moments of her life. First, there was the business with the runaway slaves, followed by the trouble on the riverboat later that night, their last on the C...
Li asked. His heart was thumping. “Nobody, Commander,” Swettenham said. Li poised his hand above the console, ready to play it again. Better still, to hurry back to his quarters and listen to it in private. To listen to it again and again. Eleven years, and everything he knew—or thought he knew—u...
She was talking to the aide, and then to Mr. Usher. Something about her didn’t look right, but he couldn’t figure out what. Mostly, he was looking at the pretty lady, but the distraction of the new woman made him forget why. Meggie, the pretty lady’s name is Meggie. Oh, y...
I am not afraid to kill or be killed. This blood I do freely shed in the name of He who is most holy and just.” Thus began the meeting of the three conspirators. The three men who would bring about the Millennium and the great and dreadful day of the coming of the Lord. &n...
Drake looked up to see Koh pacing in front of the tech console, gnawing on the tip of her thumb and muttering to herself as she spared glances at her terminal. Drake called her over. Her eyes were bloodshot and her hair a mess, as if she’d run her hands through it too many times. “When did you la...
He went to the war room to consider them in privacy. The first was from the lord admiral, ordering him to collect his task force and cross the Shoals to the far side of the system, where he would rendezvous with a second force, led by Malthorne on Dreadnought herself and prepare to jump into San ...
James asked Peter. The Indian rubbed at his chin, as if considering. “Somewhat improved.” The coach hit a rock and the three of them jounced about. The road was growing worse. Nevertheless, Woory picked up the pace now that there was light to see by...
Smoke continued to cling in the air from the earlier fight with the military forces. Ravens and Turkey Vultures scavenged the remains of the body parts, which littered the street. The occasional screams of the remaining living humans echoed off the buildings as they were eaten alive. Midnight, st...
Jacob’s eye fell on Ezekiel’s sleeping bag where it lay partially unzipped in the middle of the floor. Boots had left their dusty prints on the glossy nylon surface. Jacob knew he was lucky. If he’d come to the bunker alone, Ezekiel might have murdered him then and there. ...
This time, Drake was bracing for the heat, and he was already exhausted. They chilled Blackbeard as much as possible before descending toward the sun, but the air, the floor, even the water coming out of the taps was soon scalding. Dreadnought followed them down. She gained as Blackbeard was forc...