Tiny Infinities by J.H. Diehl is a promising book about Alice, her troubled mother and her meeting an unusual new friend, Harriet. It's a middle-grade novel with unique observations about family relationships, friendship and Alice's determination to prove herself in all ways. It's written for ages...
Tiny Infinities by J.H. Diehl is a promising book about Alice, her troubled mother and her meeting an unusual new friend, Harriet. It's a middle-grade novel with unique observations about family relationships, friendship and Alice's determination to prove herself in all ways. It's written for ages...
…A Bishop with an eminent standing in the local community is sadistically murdered by a teenager who was under his care, to the point that beyond the large amount of mortal wounds inflicted all over his body, his genital organs end up stuffed in his mouth .The potential perpetrator is a teenager s...
Interesting setting (California, mainly in the first half of the 20th century), interesting time frame (covering from the end of the gunfighter era to the end of WWII), somewhat interesting characters, if rather too perfect (this is an issue I have with Diehl in other books too - see, Martin Vail in...
Readable but just barely pretty ho-hum cliched 80's spy novel with cookie cutter characters.
My sister kind of hinted me the ending so I was able to predict it and that's why I'm giving it 4 stars otherwise this book is a solid 5 out of 5. No questions asked.
Aaron Stampler is found in a confessional booth holding a knife, proclaiming his innocence, after someone killed the revered Bishop of the city. Martin Vail, a quick-witted lawyer who isn't afraid to leap before he looks, is basically coerced into defending the young man who appears guilty in every ...
I picked up the audiobook of this and though it was an interesting story, the audiobook had a lot to be desired. There were lots of inconsistencies which had me thinking WTH. At one point Zeke, the lead cop was on the phone with a sheriff Brodie, and something was said about the look on Brodie's f...
"His knuckles were the size of Bermuda onions" Really? Just can't finish this stinker. Liked his other stuff, like Chameleon and Sharkey's Machine but this one goes onto the very small unfinished pile.
this was actually pretty good, much better than i was expecting it to be. i would have given it 2 stars but the last third or so of the novel kept me really engrossed.
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