Long Shadows: From the number one bestselling author (Amos Decker series Book 7)

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Thuli Madonsela speaks about the importance of SA's political future in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It’s so difficult to understand time, Amos, night and then day. But then, everything is very difficult for me to understand right now. And…it’s so very frightening because…every day there seems to…be less and less of me…th-there.” I just wanted to hear your voice. It just seemed so important to me right now. I’ve been working up the courage to call you.” She continued as though he hadn’t spoken. She said, “I just remembered her before I called you. And only because I looked at a photo with her name on it. I forgot I had a daughter, Amos. For a time there was no Sandy Lancaster in existence for me. Can you understand how…terrible that is?” What about tomorrow?” she said, interrupting these thoughts. “Will I remember her tomorrow? Or Earl? Or you? Or…me? So what does it matter? Can you tell me that?”

He was about to speak again, to convince her to wait for help. He had his lines ready. He was about to deliver them. They would make her put the gun down, he was sure of it. He sighed as the tragic sincerity of her words hit him especially hard. “I know, Mary. I understand why you feel that way.”He sat down and read it through twice, though his perfect memory had already imprinted all of the contents in his mind forever. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.

Soon it seems like everything is against them. The two murders do not make sense. They were killed in two totally different ways. The one shot dead in a very clinical way and the other stabbed 10 times in a seeming crime of passion? The casket had been closed. The gunshot had been fired upward through the mouth, leaving Mary Lancaster beyond the magic of the mortician’s cosmetics, and thus unviewable. She cut in. “Earl doesn’t know that I am alone. He wouldn’t want that. He’s normally very careful about that.”

He said the words he needed to say to his wife and child, and then rose from the cold ground and glanced to the left. There was an empty plot there. My only gripe with Baldacci's books is that there inevitably comes a point when they're over, and that he only publishes two of them a year. I always enjoy reading Baldacci, and this one was the best in a while among many excellent ones.

He had served justice in both cases, but it was, without doubt, a hollow outcome, marred by the fact that the justice was delivered too late for the victims. No amount of justice could return the dead to the living; the satisfaction gained from learning the truth was dwarfed by the loss. But also not alike,” she retorted in a tone she hadn’t used before. It was an escalation of sorts, at least he took it that way.

A single shot, which he believed—because he knew Lancaster—had been delivered with deliberate care and competent accuracy. She would have chosen the temple, the chin, or the open mouth as her entry point. Any one of those would get the job done. You mean I can put sentences together. The…me-medications help me with that, sometimes. This is one of those times. I’m…not usually like this. I’m usually… not good.” Round-up: Four new crime fiction to keep you entertained on long winter nights". DurhamRegion.com. 21 October 2022 . Retrieved 2022-10-24.

Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world. Social Media He and Lancaster had successfully partnered on many cases. Having a perfect memory was a godsend for a detective, but a thousand-pound ball-and-chain for a human being. Time did not heal any of his past miseries. If anything, they were more intensified. He knew exactly what she was referring to. “It seems to,” he answered. “But everyone’s mind changes, Mary, healthy or not. Nothing is static. Normal or not, whatever normal is.”He was alive. She was not. Right now it was a difference without significant distinction for him. He sat there as his little room was lit by the electric blue of a death that had touched him from nearly a thousand miles distant. Another David Baldacci book that was a blast to read. It's Long Shadows and I received it from Pan Macmillan via Netgalley. It will be published on the 10th of November.