![]() She senses him, and as she turns around to see him he strangles her. He finds her scent from a long distance, and he follows it until he is very near her in the dark. On one of his olfactory jaunts around the city, Grenouille finds the most delicious scent he has ever encountered, that of a adolescent girl. Grenouille roams the city of Paris, searching for new scents, because he has the most gifted nose in the world. After having survived anthrax, and thus becoming more useful in a tannery, he is treated marginally better and is given some slight freedom. At the age of eight he is given in apprenticeship to a tanner, Grimal, where he is almost worked to death. He is brought up in a sort of home orphanage, tended together with several other orphans by an emotionally damaged woman named Madame Gaillard. His mother is executed for this attempt and for her previously successful infanticides, leaving Grenouille, a bastard, alone in the world. ![]() The baby, who strangely has no scent, cries out and is saved by onlookers. He is delivered behind his mother's fish stall and is immediately abandoned to die. ![]() Grenouille is born to a fishwife mother in Paris in the early eighteenth century. ![]()
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![]() So by now, it has been a little over a year since my father died, about a year and a half since I saw Dennis Lehane speak at the Sun Valley Writer's Conference, and about twelve months since I bought a copy of Moonlight Mile, and then never got up the guts to finish the series.īut, you know, it's been a year. Then, this week (Fall Semester Finals week), I thought something along the lines of "you know what I was reading that distracted me from studying this time last year? Sacred, and then I read Gone, Baby, Gone, and Prayers for Rain over Break." and I just couldn't stop myself from starting Moonlight Mile. Such high expectations, and sorrow over the end of a great series, that I put off reading it for a year. ![]() ![]() As the finale of the book series that got me through my father's death, I had high expectations coming into this novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Someone very dangerous is looking for her and won't stop until she's found. The house is torched, her apartment is broken into, and her elderly landlady is murdered. Suddenly, Liza's quiet life is turned upside down. So where did all the cash come from?For Liza, a waitress at a small local diner, the money seems like a blessing-until an elderly man she's never met appears at her mother's funeral, warning that she's in danger. After their father ran off with another woman, Liza and her older stepbrother grew up in this house, surviving poverty, squalor, and a mentally unstable mother. While cleaning out her dilapidated house, her estranged daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred-dollar bills hidden in the tall stacks of books and magazines that crowd every corner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jance's thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona's Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty, mystery, and dangerAn old woman, both a hermit and a hoarder, is dying in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that hit close to home in New York Times bestselling author J. ![]() ![]() An illness is the least of their worries when a devil from Kane's past comes back to play with him. They hide their need behind arguments, and banter, but when Kane drops his guard for all to see, and succumbs to an illness within his body, it's Aideen who steps up to the plate to take care of him. They can't stand each other, but they want each other. ![]() He knows her deepest, and darkest secrets. ![]() Kane is the only man who can see right through Aideen's tough exterior. Aideen is the only woman who stands up to Kane and throws his bullshit back at him without fear of hurting him. He likes his circle limited to his brothers and their girlfriends, but a thorn from an Irish rose is dug deep into Kane's side, and her name is Aideen Collins. ![]() He relishes in their fear because people who fear you, won't want to know you. He is misunderstood by people, even feared by them thanks to the scars that mar his face and body. Aideen is protective of her family, there is not a lot she wouldn't do to keep them safe. Her family consists of her four brothers, her father, and her group of wild friends. She is outspoken and tough as nails, but she has to be after growing up in a house full of men. ![]() |