M Rainey: September 2016

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Book #27 - Brutal Indifference

Rookie Detective Shanna Marlowe is tracking a serial rapist striking the remote parts of Humboldt County. The rapist escalates to murder leading to manhunt across the frozen desert.

Book #26 - The Legend of Devil's Creek

When a mutilated corpse is found bound to a tree deep in the forest of remote Aubrey Island, Washington, residents learn that the murder mirrors, in every ritualistic detail, a series of revenge killings described in a century-old local ghost story. More abductions and killings soon follow. Justin Riddley, recently transferred to the island’s small college, faces growing evidence that one of his new friends and fellow students may be the murderer. John Marshall, redemption-seeking captain of the local police force, leads the frantic murder investigation and struggles to figure out whether the killings are tied to the island's dark and violent past. Tormented by tragic wartime memories, and more convinced with each day that it is humanity’s fate to destroy itself, Marshall races against both the murderer and the specter of his own mental breakdown. As blood continues to spill, Riddley and Marshall wonder whether there may be a dark, universal force that drives evil deeds great and small, and whether the nature of one’s childhood might sometimes, in the end, be all that separates the saint from the psychopath.

Book #25 - Facing Darkness

Sheriff Lj Lawson is tracking a killer that is targeting the elected officials of Humboldt County. Only to be reminded she was elected too.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Coins on the Ground

I have a story to tell . . .

I was at a drive-up window for lunch. I see the women in front of me drop a coin between her car and the window. The next thing I notice is the women "throwing" more coins on the ground.

It's my turn at the window. The fast food employee tells me my change is $2.70. Jokingly I ask her if I should throw the change on the ground like the lady before me. She smiles and tells me there is a story to that. The other lady dropped a dime and the employee told her that her granddaughter comes everyday to pick up the coins. Once the other lady knew about the granddaughter, she through her returned coins on the ground.

I was told 8 year old, Evelyn (the granddaughter) doesn't spend the change she picks up. She puts it all in her piggy bank. At the end of the story, I'm handed my $2.70. I immediately drop my change on the ground. The employee was telling me how excited her granddaughter would be. She even had to tell the employee behind her to look at the coins that were for her granddaughter.

I hope that both the grandmother and granddaughter had a great day. Now I may drop my change every time I visit there.