Ghosted by Rosie Walsh

Ghosted by Rosie Walsh
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Sarah is devastated when Eddie doesn't call after their week together. At first she fears he is injured but after discovering he is alive and well she wonders why he isn't responding to her text and emails. She even wonders if his name is really Eddie David, and if it's her past that has driven him away. Fearing they will never be able to have a life together no matter how much they love one another she chooses not to tell him she is pg with their son. But when Eddie finds out will it change everything?

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Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, #6)

Sunset Express by Robert Crais
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lucy Chenier comes for a visit with her son Ben, so Elvis Cole is thrilled to have the chance to impress her with his job as part of The Green Machine. But did the evidence fall into Elvis' lap a little too easily? Jonathan Green sets Elvis up to be the darling of the media but when Green starts to frame Angela Rossi (the police officer Elvis cleared and a friend of Pike's) Elvis starts to question the entire case.

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The Weaver's Legacy: A historical epic novel of the Irish in the American West

The Weaver's Legacy: A historical epic novel of the Irish in the American West by Olive Collins
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I had high hopes for this book a I would like to read more Irish and Irish American History, unfortunately this book is extremely short on HISTORY. it's not so much a Historical Novel as a soap that is set in a certain period with very little details of the period provided.

Goldie's family (and her nickname was a major annoyance supposedly the Indians gave her, the nickname because of the color of her hair but then it's belabored several times that she had red hair???) immigrated to America and joined a wagon train headed to the Black Hills, lead by a cousin Aengus. Aengus had moved to the Black Hills several years early and had a prosperous farm, and Indian wife and step-son (Chaytan). Shortly after they arrive a plague of locust comes and Baby Miriam disappears, while in Goldie's care.

Chaytan comes to break horses for Barry (Goldie's Father) and Goldie befriends him, she also goes to Aengus' house where his wife Makawee teaches Goldie to weave. Before Aengus is killed he and Makawee have a daughter Winona. The rest of the family shuns the Indians and one day her brother Lorcan brands Chaytan. After that Chaytan refuses to break the horses and Barry forbids Goldie to go to Aengus' home. After Aengus is found dead, Lorcan goes to shoot buffalo and eventually joins the army to wipe out the Indians or force them onto reservations. Everyone knows that Lorcan and Timothy Breen had something to do with Aengus death, but nothing is done to them as it is believed that Aengus was arming the Indians. Goldie's sister Frances married Owen Breen

Irritatingly the book narrated from 1937 by Goldie's niece Lucy. Lucy is supposedly Lorcan's daughter and the book begins with Lorcan (who was presumed dead) coming back to town. Lucy and her husband Harry, return to Goldie's home to see if it's really Lorcan and what he wants and what claims he may have to Goldie's fortune which was left to Lucy. After meeting with Lorcan Harry wants to return home (5th Avenue New York), but Lucy wishes to stay in Four Oaks.

Book returned to library (Chapter 27 page 308)

The rest of the book was extremely boring and tedious and reads more like someones review of a book than an actual book as mostly it just recounts what happened, with no feelings or emotions I never connected with any of the characters.

The big reveal is that Lorcan lead the Breen's to Baby Miriam's home when Chaytan was there. Owen Breen was shot in the head (he didn't have a stroke as Frances told everyone.) Miriam and her husband were killed and Chaytan was taken an hanged. Before they hung him Chaytan told Lorcan that the woman in the cabin was Miriam and that her daughter was hidden inside the cabin. Lorcan returned for the girl (Lucy) and took her to the orphanage where Goldie later found and adopted her. Lorcan went to visit Makawee and she killed him. Lucy left Harry and married John Dwyer.

I am sorry I wasted my time reading this book and will not read another book written by her.

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The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon (Goodreads Author)

The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

(1978)Vi and Eric are being raised by their Grandmother (Dr Helen Hildreth) on the grounds of an estate that houses the mentally ill. When Helen brings a young girl Iris home, Vi is determined to help Iris find out who she really is as Iris has no memories of her past.

Going behind her Grandmother's back Vi breaks into her Grandmother's office and discovers her fascination with eugenics and references to a mysterious Patient S, assuming Iris is Patient S Vi is determined to find out more about what was done to her and who she is.

(2019) Lizzy Shelly host "Monsters Among Us" and is determined to find out if her sister is the monster behind the disappearance of several young girls.

This book has several twist and I actually thought we were going to get a happy ending for a few pages at the end, before yet another plot twist uncovered the monsters dark secret.


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Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The book revolves around Joy Delaneys' disappearance and the suspicion that her husband, Stan, killed her. We learn about their children Amy, Logan, Troy and Brooke and how being a tennis family affected their lives and the mysterious girl Savannah who showed up at their door one evening claiming domestic abuse and asking for sanctuary. But nothing in this book is as it seems especially Savannah who holds a grudge from a long ago encounter with the Delaneys.

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The Keeper of Happy Endings

The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

As part of the Resistance Soline's life is in danger, her fiancee pulls every string in the book including using his well connected Father's name to get her to safety. Soline Roussel arrives in America with the clothes on her back and a wedding dress. Her future Father in Law believes her to be a gold digger and when a telegram arrives telling them that Anson is missing believed dead he sends the pg Soline to a home for unwed Mother's. And arranges for Soline to be told her baby is dead, meanwhile arranging for the baby girl to be adopted.

Soline creates a life for herself and a thriving dress shop until a fire destroys her hands. Now she is a recluse who seldom sees anyone.

Rory Grant's fiancee is missing and Rory needs something to fill the void Hux's disappearance left. Remembering his encouragement of her idea to start a gallery she decides to do so when she walks past the vacant dress shop. The decision leads to a friendship between her and Soline and soon fate delivers a long delayed happy ending.

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Three Debts Paid (Daniel Pitt, #5)

Three Debts Paid by Anne Perry
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Two women and a man are murdered and their pointing finger taken by someone the press has labeled the Rainy Day Slasher. Miriam is in charge of their autopsies.

In what seems to be an unrelated matter Daniel is defending his old university professor Nicholas Wolford against charges of assault against the man who accused him of plagiarism. It seems a straightforward case as the other man deliberately provoked Wolford and took the first swing. And the charges of plagiarism are easy enough for Daniel to prove false.

Daniel realizes his feelings for Miriam are more than friendship even though she is a number of years older than him (honestly I think this is disgusting as she is old enough to be his Mother). I don't know why Anne Perry made her so much older than Daniel.

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