Excellent, just as the first two books were. Giorello does an amazing job of keeping things sufficiently enigmatic to keep you interested. She does a lot of research, and it's obvious. I learned a lot from it. The spiritual aspects were well-done, subtly giving a human response from Raleigh at ce...
I love Sibella Giorello's characters and the other books in the Raleigh Harmon series were page-turners. This one took me a while to get finished and frankly, I skipped quite a few paragraphs. Maybe I wasn't totally in the mood. I don't know what the problem was exactly. The plot was harder to fo...
The cats slumbered in her lap and the paper was draped over the high wing behind her right ear. The floor around her feet looked like the bottom of a birdcage. Rather than disturb the cats, she was releasing the paper as she finished the stories, letting it sail to the floor before reach-ing behi...
"Yoo-hoo!" My mother is calling up the front stairs, after a strained lunch, after my rushing upstairs to change out of church clothes. I had a plan. But of course the plan is thwarted. "Raleigh Ann? Are you there?" Of course. Instead of using the servant's stairs in back of the house, I was tryi...
Somewhere above it a dog was barking. It was a hoarse and monotonous warning, the distress signal of an animal facing constant threat. When I stepped to the chain link fence surrounding the landfill, a sickly sweet scent wafted through the humid air. Seagulls perched on the waste, pecking open pl...
The door was open, but probably because it couldn’t close. Mounds of paper covered the floor, making the small space look like a stationary model of his dented pharmacy on wheels. A pigsty. The vet himself was sitting behind a desk smothered with more paper, and a plastic plate perched on one of ...