Nevermore May 24, 2022
Reported by Garry
Gone for Good by Joanna Schaffhausen is the first in a series of hard-boiled mysteries starring Annalisa Vega, a seasoned Chicago cop who takes on the hunt for a serial killer. Twenty years earlier, the Lovelorn Killer had murdered seven women and seemingly vanished without a trace. Now he is back and has killed Grace Harper, an amateur sleuth who may well have been on the cusp of identifying the killer. Annalisa grew up in the neighborhood where the Lovelorn Killer preyed, and must now face not only the re-emergence of a monstrous killer, but the shadows of her own childhood in order to solve the case. Our reader, who typically favors historical fiction, was taken with this book and praised the writing style and the taut mystery, which kept her guessing. ML
The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty by Sy Montgomery is the latest book by the best-selling author of such books as The Good Good Pig and The Soul of An Octopus. In this memoir, Montgomery recounts her time spent with falconer Nancy Cowan and her birds of prey: specifically Jazz, a female Harris’s hawk. Enchanted by this fierce, independent, and wild bird, Montgomery spent years working with and learning the personalities of the Cowan’s many birds, discovering they are emotional, highly intelligent creatures who have extraordinarily long memories and form fiercely loyal bonds with those humans lucky enough to be a part of these magnificent birds’ lives. CD
A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil is a psychological thriller with a twist: what if everything you knew and believed to be true just… vanished? Annie Beyers, a young lady who seemingly has everything – a loving husband, a daughter, a dream house, wakes from an accident to find that her daughter doesn’t exist, her husband is in the process of divorcing her, and her dog has apparently returned from the dead. What is happening? Whose life is Annie living in? Where did her previous life go? This mind-bending blend of science-fiction, spirituality, and a touch of the paranormal captured our reader’s imagination and kept her thinking long after the final page was turned. MH
Foundation by Isaac Asimov was reviewed by one of our science-fiction fans. First published in 1953, some of the details are now dated (organic cigars anyone?), but eerily prescient in other ways. Set hundreds of thousands of years in the future when humans have colonized a large part of the galaxy, the Galactic Empire has ruled for twelve thousand years but is now starting to crumble. Hari Seldon, the creator of the new science of psychohistory can see the patterns of what is happening and what is to come. In order to save humanity’s accumulated knowledge and civilization from the coming eons of upheaval and darkness, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire and creates an intellectual fortress: The Foundation - a beacon of hope for future generations. Our reader had initially read this book back in the late 1960s and revisited it recently, noting how many of the themes and details are just as applicable to our current society as they were when Asimov initially wrote the stories in the early to mid-1940s. WJ
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