Family Day!

Thoughts

Jul 042014

I rarely take a full day away from the computer.
If you notice the book tours in the sidebar this is a scheduled day off for me, a holiday in fact.

Today the family is getting together with more of our extended family to attend a parade, spend time together, enjoy some tasty food and maybe watch a few fireworks soar into the air.

I hope you all are enjoying a family day too!

6 Responses to “Family Day!”

Brooke says:

July 4, 2014 at 12:19 AM

Have a wonderful 4th and enjoy your time with family! You deserve it. 🙂
My Home of Books says:

July 4, 2014 at 10:09 AM

Enjoy, Lori! You are always so busy here on your blog, you deserve time off. Have fun with the family.
myrecentfavoritebooks says:

July 4, 2014 at 10:42 AM

Have a wonderful day with your family!
Joyce Lavene says:

July 4, 2014 at 10:53 AM

Happy Independence Day to you too, Lori! Have a great time!
Mark says:

July 4, 2014 at 1:13 PM

Not family, but I’ve got plans with good friends later today. Enjoy your well deserved day of rest.
katsrus says:

July 4, 2014 at 4:55 PM

Have fun. Happy 4th of July.
Sue B

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Deadly Choices by Karen Randau

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Linda O. Johnston

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But the budding romance takes a bad turn when Wanda Addler, another VimPets employee, sets her sights on Jack. After threatening to ruin Jack’s career if he doesn’t give her what she wants, Wanda is found dead. Jack and Billi are put at the top of the suspect list, and Carrie is doggone determined to rescue them from a life behind bars.

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New Sins for Old Scores

Murder, like history, often repeats itself. And, when it does, it’s the worst kind of murder.

Detective Richard Jax was never good at history—but, after years as a cop, he is about to get the lesson of his life. Ambushed and dying on a stakeout, he’s saved by Captain Patrick “Trick” McCall—the ghost of a World War II OSS agent. Trick has been waiting since 1944 for a chance to solve his own murder. Soon Jax is a suspect in a string of murders—murders linked to smuggling refugees out of the Middle East—a plot similar to the World War II OSS operation that brought scientists out of war-torn Europe. With the aid of a beautiful and intelligent historian, Dr. Alex Vouros, Jax and Trick unravel a seventy-year-old plot that began with Trick’s murder in 1944. Could the World War II mastermind, code named Harriet, be alive and up to old games? Is history repeating itself?

Together, Jax and Trick hunt for the link between their pasts—confronted by some of Washington’s elite and one provocative, alluring French Underground agent, Abrielle Chanoux. Somewhere in Trick’s memories is a traitor. That traitor killed him. That traitor is killing again. Who framed Jax and who wants Trick’s secret to remain secret? The answer may be, who doesn’t?

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Shadow Girl (An Afton Tangler Thriller)
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The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that’s just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree…

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