Crazy Love by Rachael Tamayo: I posted this review before I decided to do this summary, but here's the link if you missed it: https://amzn.to/2RIRh5k
Empty Seats by Wanda Adams Fischer
A Fan’s View of the Pressure Cooker that Is Professional BaseballThe Banker’s Wife by Cristina Alger
Two (or Three?) Strong
Women Protagonists Make this Story Work
With
the title, The Banker’s Wife, you
would expect the individual in that role (Annabel, wife to banker Matthew
Werner) to play a major role. And she
did. But she knew little of her
husband’s work and his oft-notorious clients.
So, she became our view into the dangerous world of offshore banking,
where everyone from dishonest politicians to brutal dictators hid their
money. Although intelligent and obviously
brave, Annabel spent much of the book running for her life. Annabel’s co-protagonist is a journalist,
Marina, drawn into the situation by colleague and largely unaware of Annabel
and her husband. In terms of a solution,
Marina was more the instrumental. But I
suppose ‘the journalist to a banking whistle-blower’ doesn’t make for a very
catchy title. In any case, much of the
book alternated chapters written from these two women’s perspectives. See the complete review on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2q8Zt2b
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Untangling the History Behind
the “Reign of Terror” for the Osage Indians
In what author David Grann called a “curious provision” to
the agreement between the Osage Indian Tribe and the US government, the Tribe
claimed all rights to “…the oil, gas, coal, or other minerals covered by the
lands.” It was curious because the lands
forming their reservation in northeastern Oklahoma were considered virtually
worthless. That is until oil was discovered there in 1897. And in a matter of a few years, that black
gold made the Osage some of the richest people on earth, changing their lives forever
… but not for the better. See the complete review on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2D8VYS0
