Book #71 was Just One Look by Harlen Coben. The back of the book reads:
When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn’t belong-a photo from at least 20 years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her family from a fierce, silent killer who will stop at nothing to get the photo, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past.
I picked this book out pretty randomly. I had to go to the library for Killing Floor, and when I go pick up something specific I like to pick something random off the shelf near it, preferably something from an author I haven’t read. This was pretty good. The story line was… different. Not a traditional mystery. The only problem I really had with is was that I didn’t care for the way Grace figures everything out at the end. It’s just too tidy. I think the book would have been better without the last chapter.
Book count: 71
Pages in book: 384
Page count: 28,921
Words in book: 95,488
Word count: 8,532,820
Book #72 was The Sky is Falling, by Sidney Sheldon. The back of the book reads:
When five members of America’s most illustrious family are all killed in separate accidents in less than a year, Dana Evans, a beautiful young anchorwoman for a Washington, D.C., television network, becomes suspicious. Investigating the deaths, the determined journalist uncovers a trail of blood that takes her to half a dozen countries around the world in search of a killer. In a startling turn of events, Dana becomes the hunted, and the terrible secret she’s learned puts her and her young son into dire jeopardy from which they may not be able to escape…
This is the first Sidney Sheldon book I’ve read. It was good — reminded me of a Mary Higgins Clark book, really. The only issue I really had was where she is flying all over the place, investigating, and her employers don’t even really question her about it. But, maybe that’s how it is. I also thought the “boyfriend’s ex-wife” subplot was pretty superfluous. In fact, the boyfriend himself was pretty superfluous. But, I’d read more of his books.
Book count: 72
Pages in book: 416
Page count: 29,337
Words in book: 70,808
Word count: 8,603,628
1,000,000 words surpassed — 2/2/06
2,000,000 words surpassed — 2/14/06
10,000 pages surpassed — 3/10/06
3,000,000 words surpassed — 3/16/06
4,000,000 words surpassed — 4/3/06
5,000,000 words surpassed — 5/30/06
50 books surpassed – 6/12/06
20,000 pages surpassed — 6/29/06
6,000,000 words surpassed — 6/29/06
7,000,000 words surpassed — 7/21/06
8,000,000 words surpassed — 8/18/06