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So the last couple of days have been hectic. Wednesday was a travel day down to Williamsburg, Va. to take my daughter back to college. Yesterday was spent lugging her stuff up three flights of stairs to her room. Fortunately, it was not quite as hot this year as last, but it was still hot! In addition to taking stuff from the car we also had to go and get the stuff she left in storage in the attic (the 5th floor) of a dorm a couple of dorms over from hers. That excursion included carrying the refrigerator and a large box down the stairs because they were working on the elevator! Then after we got her moved in it was time to go to Target and get the final stuff that she needed and then to The Home Depot for the rug and the air conditioner! But everything is moved in and her room looks great! Today was the trip home with a side trip to a cemetery in Baltimore to find some children of a distance cousin on my wife’s family tree. That trip was unsuccessful but I’m sure she took some good pictures!
In the middle of all that I finished Book 23 for 2011 Stealing Faces by Michael Prescott. From his webpage:
In May, 1999,Stealing Faces became the first Signet book to make its debut as a downloadable electronic book compatible with Gemstar eBook technology (formerly Rocket eBook). In mid-September of 1999, six months after the electronic premiere of Stealing Faces, a mass-market paperback edition was issued by Signet Books. It’s now in its fourth printing.
I purchased the book at the Kindle store for .99 cents and it was worth every penny of it. The book is a taunt psychological thriller. John Cray is a psychiatrist who is also a serial killer. Cray kidnaps women then sets them loose in the desert, stalks them and when he catches them before he kills them he slices off their face and shows it to them! But now the tables have been turned and Cray is being stalked by a woman. When Cray turns hunter and catches the women he finds that she is from his past and knows his secret……..now the question is can he control her and keep his secret. The book unfolds like an onion and with the turn of each page another layer of the story is exposed and becomes more tense! Overall I thought that the book lagged a little in the beginning but the pace certainly picked up as the storyline became a little clearer. I enjoyed all the characters and am certainly looking forward to my next Prescott book!
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