Ferron Reads

Over the three-day-weekend I read Linda Howard's "Shadow Woman" I enjoyed it and hope that you do also.

Lizzie Henry wakes up on morning and doesn't recognize her face in the mirror. Then she is taken ill with the flu and calls in sick. Her boss says something disturbing to her. When she tries to think about the past she continues to get violently ill. She realizes how routine her life has become and how unadventurous she seems. She always takes the same way home from work, she shops at the same store and she has a rigid routine that she follows, then she begins to change. Lizzie starts to think different thoughts, runs instead of walking around the block, she begins to think that people are watching her, and she drives too fast just because.

Give Linda Howard a spin and see if you like "Shadow Woman".

Ferron Reads

"Always Time to Die" by Elizabeth Lowell

The other day looking for something to read, I took a book off of my cart and rediscovered Elizabeth Lowell. I read "Always Time to Die" and then continued with a few more of her books.


Carly May was adopted and doesn't know anything about her biological family, but she is a genealogist and historian . Hired by an aunt of the govenor of New Mexico to write and publish a history of their maternal side of the family, Carla May comes out to Taos. Before she arrives, the govenor's father who was at one time a senator, dies. Everyone assumes it was of natural causes, but we see that he was murdered. As Carly's research progresses she finds out that the Senator has many legitimate and illigitimate children. People don't like her prying in to the family and she is threatened. Dan Duran has returned to Taos after sustaining injuries while tangling with a drug cartel. He tries to protect Carly. By combining DNA with research and detective work, Carly and Dan finally discover the truth.

The Emery County Library System has 27 books by this author, so if you enjoy this book then you have plenty to read while the weather keeps you indoors. Castle Dale and Orangeville Library has her newest book, "Beautiful Sacrifice" .