Monty's Book Reviews

Sticky Fingers :  Confessions of a Marginally Repentant Shoplifter Tom Bentley Pages: 176 Genre: Autobiography, Memoir Published: 21 July 2022 Publisher:  The Write Word Publishing Publisher's Blurb There’s only one thing more excited than a kid in a candy store: a kid in a candy store who can steal as much candy as he needs. The same kid later realizes that budgeting for high school is so restrictive—why not just steal all those shiny little (and big) things that caught his eye? Tom Bentley was that kid. He was a dedicated, accomplished shoplifter through his high school years, so much so that he treated it as a business, taking orders for record albums, tape recorders, clothes, liquor and all sorts of glittery little gewgaws from his peer clients, and instructing a small team of fellow five-fingerers in matters of the trade. During the four-year period between age 15 and 19, Bentley was a lunatic thief, and became more and more brazen: He dribbled basketballs out of stores, ...

  An Empire In Time Thief of Time Book 8 Cidney Swanson 5 Stars Pages: 278 Genre: Time Travel, Romance, YA, Teen, Historical, Sci-Fi Published: 09 August 2022 Publisher:  Williams Press Publisher's Blurb Jillian and Everett’s wedding plans are upended  when fellow time-traveler Dr. Duval steps out of the shadows and into their lives. Removing the Eiffel Tower as part of an experiment, Duval inadvertently creates a new timeline where the United States of America disappears in 1804 and is replaced by a French monarchy. Duval may not care whether America is a kingdom or a democracy, but he’ll stop at nothing to understand how spacetime operates. Desperate for information he needs, Duval hunts down Dr. Littlewood. Jillian and Everett’s wedding is on hold, and before long their lives are in danger. To stop Duval, Everett secretly travels to 1802 where he is jailed in the famed Conciergerie prison as an English spy. Jillian has a terrible choice. Will she play it safe in the Am...

  Mad, Bad And Dead Judi Westerholme Thriller Book 3 Sherryl Clark 5 Stars Pages: 320 Genre: Crime Thriller Published: 23 August 2022 Publisher: Verve Books Publisher's Blurb A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme's troubles aren't over... Already struggling to juggle co-running Candlebark's pub/bistro along with her new childcare responsibilities, what Judi doesn't need right now is more stress. Yet, as usual, it arrives in spades: she starts receiving threatening, late night phone calls before discovering one of her best employees, Kate, shot dead in her bed. Once again, Judi finds herself at the center of a murder investigation, as well as the hunt for Kate's fourteen year-old daughter who has been missing since the murder. Add in the uncertainty of her relationship with D.S. Heath and the fact that her estranged mother's nursing home keeps calling to urge her to visit, and Judi might finally be at b...