Life Is But a

Walking Shadow(s), a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.  It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Walking Shadows is the twenty-fifth book in the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series and I loved, loved, loved it.  Not a surprise, as I love Faye Kellerman and this series!

Please, Ms. Kellerman, allow Peter to be so stubborn as to not listen to Rina's urgings for him to consider retirement!

Unless Rina would then open up her own little PI company....she is just as good (if not better) at detecting that her hubby!

Fantastic! 

Peter and Rina!

How do I love thee?  The Bone Box was another excellent and much anticipated edition to Peter and Rina on the East Coast!  Oh, Faye Kellerman, thank you for sharing your talent with the world!  How I just wish you could write them faster!

David Levithan would HATE Edie!

Dear Edie Middlestein,

I hope you never meet David Levithan in heaven.  If you do, run the other way!  He hates fat people!  

Love,

Ing

I don't even think Levithan would be able to get through The Middlesteins.

This book is another BOB for Bethel Park and I did like it a lot more than The Vacationers because it did have more action, was more complex, maybe.  Plus, I do have a soft spot for people of size.  I mean, I am a person of size.  I was a person of a bigger size before, but today was weigh-in day and while I was not at goal of 128, I was only 129, so I guess I am doing okay.  But if ONLY David Levithan would let me know for sure!

Ahem.

Sorry.

Anyway...this is another book that is so not my kind of book.  And yet I did find myself caring about the characters, very much so.  The only reason I gave it three stars (and really it is 3 1/2) is because it was not my usual book and because I found Edie's children to be super-unlikable, though I did like her grandchildren!

Was this a dysfunctional family?  I am still not ready to tag it as such.  Again, it seemed like more of a "normal" family to me, with faults and flaws and problems.  Is that dysfunctional?  Not sure...

Peter and Rina: more east coast crime!

When I read Murder 101, if you remember, I was SO glad that Peter and Rina didn't stop crime busting when they moved to the east coast.  And I was super excited to see that there was another book, The Theory of Death that had already been published!  While said, "WHOA!  How did I miss this?!?"  It was kinda cool that I didn't have to wait for it to be published!  I was able to buy and download it right away on audible because I knew I would love it.
And I did.
THANK YOU, Faye Kellerman!
August has been very Kellermany!
Hooray for #23!  Can't wait for #24!

British Accents

Here is a warning for those of you who aren't really into British accents for their audiobooks, if you download one of the Secrets book to listen to, you will hear a British accent, but don't worry! That is just the intro lady!  Stones on a Grave was a book I downloaded a long time ago, but I heard the intro in the British accent and so I didn't listen to it!  I could have enjoyed these books much earlier!
Stones on a Grave was really, really good.  This one is set mostly in Germany.  I can't remember which city.
When her orphanage is burned down, Sara gets her clue to her past that takes her to Germany.
I learned things about WW2 that I didn't know before, not that I knew a lot, but I knew a good amount, still there was new stuff here.  I am embarrassed to say that I never knew about the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

Peter and Rina! On the East Coast!

So after I finished the last Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel by the amazing Faye Kellerman, I wrote to Ms. Kellerman with much worry, that the end of the road had come for PD/RL books.  And she assured me no!  Again, I was so excited that she would take the time to write back to me and then super excited to learn that there were going to be more books!  And this month Murder 101 came out!  I preordered it from audible and jumped right in, very excited to hear that Richard Ferrone was the narrator!  I wrote Ms. Kellerman before I was even done with the book to tell her how much I was enjoying it, and she wrote back again!
I love this new turn that Rina and Peter's life has taken.  I love the setting, the promise that the kids will be still involved and maybe even more so, since they will be close.  I loved, loved, loved all of it.  The only bad thing...gotta wait another year for the next one! But man, these books are worth the wait!