Reading Excursions

MY REVIEW Series:  An Alice Vega Novel (Book 2) Hardcover:  368 pages Publisher:  Doubleday (January 21, 2020) Language:  English ISBN-10:  0385545517 ISBN-13:  978-0385545518 [Click photo to purchase] “ " Lead character Alice Vega is sensational--I want to see lots more of her."--Lee Child The electric follow-up to Louisa Luna's acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan. On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, and no family looking for them. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, the police and FBI reach out to Alice Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing, for help in finding out who the Janes were--and finding the others who are missing.      Alice Vega is a powerful woman whose determination is matched only by her intellect, and, along with her part...

MY REVIEW Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: WaterBrook (October 23, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 0735291047 ISBN-13: 978-0735291041 “ When an Old Order Amish woman takes a job at a small-town pharmacy struggling to survive in a world of "big box" stores, her motive is to help her Plain community. But the advent of the holiday season brings an unusual mystery to the surface--and possibly love. Twenty-four-year-old Holly Zook lives a unique life for a young Amish woman. Years ago, her bishop allowed her to continue her education and become the lead technician for Greene's Pharmacy, an old-timey drugstore that looks out for the Amish community--a group largely without secure healthcare plans. She knows she can't marry and hold onto her professional job. She's Amish, and she can only have one or the other, so she spurns love and works toward addressing treatable diseases--like the one that claimed her father's life. As long as H...