4 stars for a welcome addition to this police procedural series set in the remote Texas border with Mexico. I started reading this series 6 years ago when I won book 4 in the series, Firebreak I enjoyed it and have been reading the series in order since then. This is book 3 in the series. In this book, Dillon Reese, the only accountant in the fictional town of Artemis, Texas, is kidnapped. Josie Gray is the police chief of the 3 person force. She is in a relationship with Dillon. Dillon's secretary, Christina Handley, is found shot dead in his office. There are several elements in this book: The murder of Christina Kidnapping of Dillon Involvement of the Medrano drug cartel A local shady junkyard dealer in wrecked cars Josie, Otto Podowski and Marta Cruz are the 3 Artemis officers. They do solve the case, with help from the FBI, Sheriff Roy Martinez and a private hostage negotiator, hired by Josie. If you like strong woman characters as found in books by Sue Grafton, Nevada Barr and Linda Castillo, then you will enjoy this series. Both my wife and I like this series. One quote: "Forest Glen Apartments was located on a downtown street, three blocks over from the county courthouse, with one small pine tree at the center of a grassy strip in front of the complex. The building was a one-story stucco, painted a garish blue, with the eight apartment doors painted Pepto-Bismol pink." I read this library book in 3 days. I had to get it through inter library loan, which was shut down for a while last year during the Covid crisis.

Andrew and Russ’s friendship is torn apart when Russ gets interested in a girl- they have growing pains throughout the story as they create a homemade movie based on a local legend. I love Tatulli’s artwork throughout this great graphic.

This was a good book about animals who hibernate. It intrigued my son enough to keep asking questions about what and why certain animals hibernate.

I liked this book a little bit more towards the beginning. It then took more of a mystery turn which isn’t always my favorite. But Jennifer Weiner is always a favorite and she doesn’t disappoint!

PG-Another strong title by Chmakova! Thoroughly enjoyable and exciting- characters are well fleshed out and fun! A great adventure with fantasy elements.

Mobituaries is a great book for history buffs! Awesome stories about people that were famous, or should have been. Audio read by Mo Rocca makes it even more engaging.

Overall, good and interesting book. Different from Hannah's other historical fiction books. More depressing home violence from great, yet sad, depiction of PTSD in war veterans.

NYPD RED is an elite squad of the New York Police Dept. who's role is to investigate crimes perpetrated again the wealthiest of NYC In this volume a newlywed be socialite is kidnapped on her wedding day. Eventually ransom is demanded and the PD tries to find the perpetrator. A second line is wealthy women have jewelry stolen. Even though this was a good story I couldn't help but think I've read this before in a book by patterson. It could be this series has run its course.

Enjoyed the plot twists although some of them defy reality. Not sure I like how everything was wrapped up so neatly

Classic Deleware, Sturgis story. The way that the two main characters are always bouncing all the different scenarios that could possibly happen off each other makes it very difficult to figure out who done it.