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PoindexterOglethorpe

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11. Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber.
Sun May 5, 2019, 01:26 PM
May 2019

A fingerprint expert in the crime lab in Syracuse seems to remember being in a plane crash and being raised by a great ape. Her foster parents never adopted her and the mom won't give her any sensible information about her origin.

Then babies start dying, and the expert gloms onto poisoned blankets being sent anonymously to the families of the newborns.

Well written except my willingness to believe a lot of important plot points such as why in the world did she never try to research her origins before this? Why would she ever believe that her past has a connection? It does, but her original leap to that has no basis in anything. Meanwhile, it takes her far too long to figure out a connection to something else that's happening (I won't give specifics as that would be a plot spoiler). Why does she put up with the unacceptable behavior of her not quite ex-husband? They were married for ten years, he cheated all the time, they've been separated for two years now and no move has been made to divorce? I do know people like that and I have no patience for them.

Anyway, it's reasonably interesting and I'd recommend it to anyone who generally likes crime books like this. I'm just picky, picky, picky.

You never want to see a movie with me.

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"Cain" by James Byron Huggins dameatball May 2019 #1
An oldie hermetic May 2019 #4
Yep, I enjoyed his novel "Hunter" so I decided to go back and try another one. dameatball May 2019 #14
Just finished "The Husband" by Dean Koontz. trev May 2019 #2
Yeah hermetic May 2019 #3
I mostly read non-fiction and watch true stories in movies katmondoo May 2019 #5
'Babycakes' in the Tales of the City sequence. I read them every couple of years. CurtEastPoint May 2019 #6
Wow, there's at least 9 hermetic May 2019 #8
Yes, AM's series. CurtEastPoint May 2019 #10
Yes hermetic May 2019 #12
I am reading fiction so light and airy murielm99 May 2019 #7
It's a love story hermetic May 2019 #9
Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #11
Alrighty then hermetic May 2019 #13
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn northoftheborder May 2019 #15
Same thing hermetic May 2019 #16
I've been going through a lot of the Parker series getting old in mke May 2019 #17
My library has 3 hermetic May 2019 #20
Finished Origin. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #18
Good tips. Thanks hermetic May 2019 #19
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