Girls At The Bookstore

GOODREADS SUMMARY: The discovery of a missing Amish bishop's remains leads chief of police Kate Burkholder to unearth a chilling secret in  The Hidden One TEE'S THOUGHTS: I didn't know, or maybe I just did not pay attention to the fact that The Hidden One by Linda Castillo was a detective series, the 14th book in fact. It is not really one you need to have read the previous ones to know what was going on, but one that occasionally may mention a tidbit or so about another case in another book. I picked up this because I have always been fascinated with the Amish way of life and how devoted they must be to live ampmg the " English " ad stay strong in their beliefs that seem outdated and maybe even a bit excessive to us on the outside. Kate Buckholder, who is a chief of police in a small Pennsylvania town, gets a visit from two Amish Bishops from the town she grew up in. They have found skeletal remains of a former Bishop who has been missing for years, and also a ...

 GOODREADS SUMMARY: It’s spring in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Lucy and Connor have moved into their new home at last, a historic cottage on the Nags Head Beach. The house needs a lot of renovations, but they worked hard over the winter to get it ready. Lucy is now happily immersed in her work at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, planning her wedding, and decorating the house. That is, until a dead body disrupts their peaceful new abode.      The first night Lucy’s alone in the house, with the company of Charles the library cat, she hears sounds. Investigating they see footsteps in the dust of the unfinished living room, and the door to the outside is open. Lucy's reminded that the house is said to be haunted: forty years ago the teenage daughter of the owners fled in the night, and never again stepped foot inside her family home.   But the sounds have an all-too-human origin and one evening Lucy and Connor find the dead body of a man they don’t ev...

 GOOD READS SUMMARY: She’s got his back.   Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. He’s got her heart.   Jack Stapleton’s a household name—captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. They’ve got a secret.   When Jack’s mom gets sick, he comes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. Or the bodyguard thing. And so Hannah—against her will and her better judgment—find...