A Howl of Wolves (Sam Clair, #4)

A Howl of Wolves by Judith Flanders
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The only problem with this book is it's the last one in the series. I do hope she writes another. Sam Clair is her usually charming self while solving the murders that occur in her friends theater production.

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Sing Them Home

Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I had trouble getting into it but found the characters interesting. As for the plot I am not sure there really was one in the traditional sense, the main character seemed to be a woman who had been dead for years, the story was told through her diary excerpts and the voices of her children and best friend.



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A Cast of Vultures (Sam Clair, #3)

A Cast of Vultures by Judith Flanders
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

As always Sam in good for a laugh. When Viv ask her to help break into a neighbors flat in order to do a wellness check, Sam can't image that her life will be in peril from the misguided B&E. The neighbor is found shortly after at The Junk Shop where some squatters live, and is supposedly the arsonist who set the shop on fire according to the police but those who knew him say NOT. The squatters say he was helping them stay in The Junk Shop legally. Viv insist he is a good guy and not a drug dealer. And Sam insist that the money under the bed wasn't there when she and Viv searched the place.

And then people start trying to kill Sam. But for someone who isn't very athletic she manages to avoid being murdered in a very Indiana Jones fashion. Finally the clues start to click into place for Sam but when she tries to tell Jake his own life is at risk and only the help of Sam (the teenage boy Sam befriended in A Bed of Scorpions) prevents Sam Clair and Jake from dying in a deadly blaze.

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Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I found the entire book sad. Margo Crane's idyllic childhood on the river ends abruptly when her Uncle sort of rapes her. And before you go jumping on me for the "sort of" the book is told from Margo's POV and she didn't exactly call it rape because she didn't say no. The thing she was most upset about at the time was that a cousin told her Father and her Father wanted to go to the authorities, but Margo refused. But she was forbidden to go to her Uncle's side of the river and play with her cousins and visit her Aunt.

Then one day when her Dad is at work she goes to her Uncle's and sees him with the cousin that tattled and she shoots the tip of his member off. Her Father arrives and takes her gun away from her and tragedy strikes her cousin Billy seeing his Father bleeding and her Father with the gun shoots and kills Crane and Margo is left alone in the world as her Mother had abandoned the family earlier and is now married to a wealthy man who doesn't want children.

Margo latches on to Brian and exchanges sex and work for a place to stay until he gets arrested for attacking her Uncle, she then latches on to the man next door, Michael who ask her to marry him when he discovers she is underage, but then turns his back on her when she kills Paul to protect him. With no place to go she goes back to her Uncle's only to discover she is unwelcome so she sets out to find her Mother and instead finds a home with an old man who is dying and his friend.

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