A Potpourri of Opinions

  Night Flight to Paris  (Kate Rees #2) Cara Black  Publication date: March 7, 2023 by Soho Crime Genre: Historical Thriller Rating: 5 👢👢👢👢👢 Summary: It is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win—or lose—World War II, in the follow up to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris. Three missions. Two cities. One shot to win the war. October 1942: it’s been two years since American markswoman Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next: Deliver a package of penicillin to sick children. Assassinate a high-ranking German operative whose knowledge of secret invasion pla...

  Any Where You Run Wanda M. Morris Publication Date: October 25, 2022 by William Morrow & Company, Harper Audio Genre: Historical Thriller Rating: 4 👢👢👢👢 Summary: From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country . . . but can they escape the secrets they left behind? It's the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she's ever been in her life. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. But with the color of Violet's skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. With the help o...