May -Jan - In Her Tracks by Robert Dugoni

In Her Tracks by Robert Dugoni

What family secrets are behind two disappearances? Seattle detective Tracy Crosswhite is determined to uncover the truth in the latest installment of New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s heart-stopping series.

Returning from an extended leave in her hometown of Cedar Grove, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself reassigned to the Seattle PD’s cold case unit. As the protective mother of an infant daughter, Tracy is immediately drawn to her first file: the abduction of a five-year-old girl whose parents, embattled in a poisonous divorce, were once prime suspects.

While reconstructing the days leading up to the girl’s disappearance, Tracy is brought into an active investigation with former partner Kinsington Rowe. A young woman has vanished on an isolated jogging trail in North Seattle. Divided between two critical cases, Tracy has little to go on except the treacherous deceptions behind a broken marriage—and now, the secrets hiding behind the closed doors of a deceptively quiet middle-class neighborhood.

To find two missing persons, Tracy will have to follow more than clues, which are both long cold and unsettlingly fresh. Given her own traumatic past, Tracy must also follow her instincts—to whatever dark and dangerous places they may lead.

March - Diana (The Woman in White) & April - Nancy (Seven Perfect Things)

March - Diana

The Woman in White

by 

Wilkie Collins,

 

Matthew Sweet (Annotations)

really liked it 4.00  ·   Rating details ·  142,405 ratings  ·  8,580 reviews

'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'

The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.

Matthew Sweet's introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collins's biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history. 

April - Nancy

Seven Perfect Things 

by 

Catherine Ryan Hyde (Goodreads Author)

 4.37  ·   Rating details ·  22,924 ratings  ·  1,492 reviews

Thirteen-year-old Abby Hubble lives in an unhappy home in the Sierra Nevada foothills where her father makes life miserable for her and her mother, Mary. One day Abby witnesses a man dump a litter of puppies into the nearby river. Diving in to rescue all seven, she knows she won’t be able to bring them home. Afraid for their fate at the pound, she takes them to an abandoned cabin, where all she can offer is a promise that she’ll be back the next day.

To grieving widower Elliot Colvin, life has lost meaning. Looking for solace, he retreats to the hunting cabin he last visited years ago, before his wife’s illness. What he discovers is not at all what he expected: seven puppies and one determined girl with an indomitable heart.

As Abby and Elliot’s friendship deepens, Abby imagines how much better her life—and the puppies’ lives—would be if her mother were married to Elliot instead of her father. But when Abby’s father moves the family hundreds of miles away, Abby and her mother must decide how long they’re willing to defer happiness.

February - TAHOE JADE by Todd Borg - Janice

 February

A Letter From Abe Lincoln

In the fall of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to the new governor of California, Leland Stanford. Lincoln sent the letter by Pony Express, which went through Tahoe. The letter from Lincoln was intercepted, and it never reached Stanford.

An Assault, A Fire, A Kidnapping

160 years later, Firefighter Jade Jaso was assaulted in Sacramento. The next day she nearly died in a warehouse fire. A short time later, her rancher father was killed in a fall at Lake Tahoe. Then Jade disappeared.

A Coded Message

When Detective Owen McKenna is brought on the case, he finds Lincoln’s letter hidden in the personal effects of Jade Jaso’s father, who was a collector of historical memorabilia. The letter contains a coded message. McKenna learns that the message refers to a treasure Stanford had mentioned to Lincoln. Unfortunately, Jade’s father made the deadly mistake of talking about the letter. The information came to a brute of a man who would kill and torture anyone who got in the way of finding that treasure, including Jade and her father, as well as Owen McKenna and McKenna’s girlfriend Street Casey

2022 BOOK CLUB ROTATION

January:  Erin - Path of Bones (Cassie Quinn Series, Book 1) by P. T. Ryan (mtg 2/22/22)
February:  Janice - Tahoe Jade by Todd Borg (mtg 3/21/22)
March:  Diana - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
April:  Nancy - Seven Perfect Things by Catherine Ryan Hyde
May:  Jan - In Her Tracks by Robert Dugoni
June:  Frances - Ink Shadows by Ellery Adams
July:  Linda - 16 Souls by John J. Nance
August: Diana - Sara Dane: The sweeping Australian family saga - Catherine Gaskin
September: Nancy - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
October: Frances - Beautiful Day by Elin Hildebrand
November: Linda - The Ones We Leave Behind by Deanna Lynn Sletten
December: Jan - YEAR-END MEETING - The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker

 *Rachelle opted out of the rotation, but I told her we’ll keep her updated on the book choices and meeting dates just in case her schedule allows time.  She may want to come if/when we have a year-end meeting as it would be fun to see her again.