Book #91 |
Book: Sign Off | Author: Patricia McLinn | |
| Source: Free BookBub download Format: Kindle |
Pages: 234 | Duration: 10/10/25 – 10/12/25 (3 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★☆☆ | Genres: fiction, mystery, thriller, suspense, crime | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Banished TV journalist flexes her muscles as a homicide detective. 🖌6-word review: Interesting enough story. Lots of characters. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “Marty Beck was still fighting a dead woman for a dead man.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: basilisk, candy-ass, slued, strafed, remonstrations | |||
| Description:* TV journalist Elizabeth “E. M.” Danniher will tell you she committed two sins — she didn’t stay young, and she made an enemy of a powerful news executive — her ex. She used to break national news. Now her top story as the “Helping Out!” reporter at dinky KWMT-TV in Sherman,Wyoming is getting a refund for a defective toaster. Tough, funny and determined, Elizabeth wrestles with isolation, keeping a professional edge, and an evolving self-image. Is Wyoming — the land of cattle, cowboys, tumbleweeds, and fewer than 6 people per square mile — her new home or a road to permanent obscurity? Soon she’s in a battle of wills with ex-football player turned journalist Mike Paycik, who sees her as a handy rung on his career ladder. And there’s the matter of a deputy sheriff—missing or murdered? Elizabeth finds herself investigating at the insistence of a girl who’s set on proving her father’s innocence.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I was glad to finally read this free BookBub download from April 2024. As a lot of these free BookBub downloads are wont to be, this was the first in a series of — in this case — 15 books. It was just an average read, and I wouldn’t read another one in the series, unless it happened to turn up as a free download and had an exceptionally interesting title or premise. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
