reading and relaxing in Seattle
Alice Scott is invited to write the biography of Margaret Ives, a recluse who happens to be the heiress of one of the most talked-about families of the 20th century. But when Alice arrives to start her interview, she discovers that Margaret has also invited Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hayden Read the Post
New mom Camilla was living the idyllic life with her husband, Luke, and their baby girl. Until one morning, Luke isn't at home, and in his place is a cryptic note. And then the police show up to tell her that Luke has taken three people hostage in a warehouse in London. By the end of the day, the Read the Post
Billie, Helen, Natalie, and Mary Alice have worked for the Museum, an elite agency of assassins, for forty years. Now in their sixties, the Museum has asked them to retire and sends them on a luxurious cruise to celebrate. However, when they are targeted on board by one of their fellow assassins, Read the Post
Halley Zwick is on the run and needs to hide out somewhere no one will find her. She takes an under-the-table job on board the Elysian Fields, a spaceship carrying hundreds of cryogenically frozen bodies. When the technology to unfreeze the people didn't work, the ship was turned into a morbid, Read the Post
Barbara Van Laar has gone missing from the summer camp run by her family. Has she run away or been kidnapped? And is her disappearance connected to the disappearance of Bear, Barbara's brother, who went missing 14 years ago? This book was my book club's latest pick. I thought it was a quick and Read the Post
Tilda Finch is a 52-year-old divorced woman who, one day, discovers that she is disappearing. Not figuratively, but literally disappearing, as in her pinky finger has disappeared, and now her ear has too. When she brings it up to her doctor, she learns that disappearing is not uncommon and that this Read the Post
Tatum is a waitress in a small town diner who is in love with one of her regulars, June. When June has to take a trip to New York but has no one to go with her since she has just been dumped by her girlfriend, Tatum volunteers to go along. Meanwhile, in New York, Eleanor has just been fired from her Read the Post
In the near future, the British government has commandeered a time door that they use to gather people from different points in history. The protagonist in this book (who is nameless) is tasked to serve as a bridge - to live, assist, and monitor Commander Graham Gore, a man who was fated to die Read the Post
When astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind on a space mission to Mars, he has to survive by himself on an uninhabited and inhospitable planet until he can be rescued. I recently watched The Martian on Amazon, and I was reminded of how much I like the movie and the story. So, I Read the Post
When Francis Adams was a teenager, a fortune teller told her that one day, Francis would be murdered. Francis spends the rest of her life trying to figure out how she will die. Years later, she invites her great-niece Annie to her estate in the country to discuss her will. But when Annie arrives, Read the Post
