Wonderful Wordy Wednesday

Hope everyone had a good Easter and Passover. Quiet here, I grilled a burger for myself for dinner. Did some additional cooking on Saturday making skillet cornbread and Sherried Tomato Soup. Yummy stuff and leftovers for more meals. 

Winter weather doesn't want to give up. We get a few nice days, then back to below typical temperatures. Central part of Wisconsin had an ice storm last week and the city I grew up in got hit pretty hard. Power out for hours and quarter to half inch of ice on trees. Lots of trees damaged.  

Dobby was supposed to have his first vet visit on Tuesday at 7 PM. I went to check the litter box for a fecal sample to take. When I came upstairs I could not find him, this was around 6 PM. I went through the house several times, checking high and low to find him. Nothing. I hadn't opened any doors to closets, checked under the beds. Checked the basement too, didn't see him. I called to cancel the appointment. Dobby reappeared just before 7 PM. Returning to where I last saw him, sitting on the back of the recliner. I won't put in print where he might read when the appointment got rescheduled for, sneaky little devil. 

Fair Play - Abigail is planning a New Year's Eve party and birthday bash for her brother Benjamin the next day. It's going to be a jazz age murder mystery party. Mayhem ensues and the next day all wake up but Benjamin. Suicide? Murder? Who done it? A detective arrives and everyone is suspect. Cute but quirky book.  

A Legacy of Murder - the second installment of the Kate Hamilton mysteries. Kate is in England, visiting her daughter and Tom, the detective she met in the first book. Kate is staying with her daughter while she helps put an exhibit together of items from a local treasure trove. Only thing is some things are missing and people are getting killed. 

The Shakespeare Secret - the secret, Shakespeare wasn't one man, it was three women! Shakespeare was just the front man to cover for three women, a countess, a court musician and a seamstress. With a bit of intrigue at the court of Elizabeth I. 

The Man Made of Smoke - Dan is a child when he encounters and escapes a serial killer and ending the killer's terror. Years later, now a psychologist, his father and others are being killed. All of whom were present or involved in that last incident. Can Dan figure it out? Very twisty story. 

Tart - non-fiction book written anonymously. The story of a woman who leaves corporate work, takes some cooking classes and then works as a chef in upscale restaurants in London. Hot working conditions, hot people, hot sex, good food. 

King of Kings - is the history of the final Shah of Iran. How over the years he used the United States to prop him up, supply his military in return for access to oil reserves. Committing blunders that ultimately resulted in his leaving Iran for exile. The book only deals with the embassy hostage crisis at the end briefly. The Empress Farah is still alive, living in the US and Paris.  

The Whyte Python World Tour - it is the 1980s and metal bands are making it big. Drummer Rikki Thunder is making it big now that he has switched bands. Hit records, a hot girlfriend and working with the CIA to help end the cold war in Eastern Europe. Hidden agents, moles and double crosses are all in play. 

With a Vengeance - it's 1954 and Anna is ready to get retribution against the six people that destroyed her family twelve years earlier. She gets all of the people on a non-stop night train between Philadelphia and Chicago. Anna wants to turn them over to authorities when the trip ends. Only a few things go awry during the trip. 

Out of the Deep I Cry - the continuing story of Rev Clare Fergusson and Chief Russ Van Alstyne. A failing roof on the church and needing money Clare finds herself searching for meaning of a man who disappeared many years ago and the disappearance of a clinic doctor. 

 Happy Reading.