Kittling: Books

  First Line: Kyle Fosbek felt the skin on the back of his neck prickle with fear as Bo Andrew sat down on the bench next to him . When 90-y...

  First Line: There are some things you need to know before I start telling you this incredible, improbable, but absolutely true story . Str...

  First Line: Stilwell could hear the plane but couldn't see it . When Detective Sergeant Stilwell acts on a tip from a confidential inf...

The time has come for another edition of Catching Up on My Book Reviews. Are you ready?  I have four books that I want to give you my though...

  First Line: The reading of Reginald Villamere's will was the event of the season, and until last week, I didn't know the man exist...

  First Line: To some it's a stage . Needing a new direction, Mickey Haller has turned to public interest litigation. He's filed a c...

  First Line: Lake Tahoe skier Colin Burns stood at the top of the speed-skiing course in Vars, France, a ski resort south of Mont Blanc, Eu...

  First Line: The marine layer was as thick as cotton and had formed a thousand-foot wall that shrouded the entrance to the harbor . Departm...

  First Line: She liked waiting for the wave more than riding the wave .   It's not a good way to start the day: when Renée Ballard goes...

  First Line: Josie Strong had just gotten home from an afternoon walk with their dog, Unknown, when the phone rang .   It's the type of...

  First Line: Georgia Byron Connor's first thought as she rocketed off the switchback at Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, wasn't about the m...

  First Line: Josie Strong was holding a fork when it slipped from her fingers and clattered to the floor .   UCLA Medieval History professo...

  First Line: " You're too big to surf. "   It's the summer of 1964 and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry S...

  First Line: Back in 1961, when women wore shirtwaist dresses and joined garden clubs and drove legions of children around in seatbeltless ...

  First Line: The family gathered in the visitor lot: Jorge Ochoa's mother and brother and me .   After getting a wrongfully convicted m...

  First Line: My ten-fifteen appointment was twenty minutes late .   Polyester (Poly) Monroe's in for more excitement than she bargained...

  First Line: Tiko kicked the deflated soccer ball down the alley, laughing as MauMau, the tan puppy with the chewed-up ear, chased it into ...