Gone Astray --by Terry Korth Fischer

 Fiction / Mystery / Cozy

222 pages / 1855 KB

5 stars

 

If you like murder mysteries that won’t give you nightmares from all the violence but will give you people you like and people you like to hate, then this is the book for you! Detective Rory Naysmith is middle aged, has heart problems (physical as well as emotional), and moves from the big city to a small mid-west town to lead the life of a small-town cop. His first assignment is a cold case to be worked with an eager rookie who wants to please (think puppy), and a middle-aged woman who wants to be friends. From there he tumbles into intrigue, murder, and mayhem.

 

The characters are believable, and the good guys are lovable. A great read, a one-sit read (be forewarned), and a most satisfactory mystery.

Omaha to Ogallala --by Terry Korth Fischer

Nonfiction / Memoir

203 pages

5 stars

Disclaimer: I had the opportunity to read the ARC.

I love a good memoir, and I love a good travel story. Ms. Fischer did an excellent job of combining the two. I had the honor of traveling to parts of the country she mentions in her book, but for entirely different reasons and therefore I saw an entirely different landscape. I much prefer hers.

The Korth sisters, of varying ages, decide to take a road trip in the hopes of rekindling their childhood friendship and closeness. The youngest is adopted and wants to find her birth parents. This brings a tension to the group as they never saw her as adopted, and they don't know how to react, threatening the tenuous bond of sisterhood. The older ones never saw the younger one as anything other than 'Sister.'

This is a delightful story of sisters and nieces and cousins and a great definition as to the definition and meaning of Family, with a capital F.