The Mindful Reader ran in today’s New Hampshire Sunday News. This time I review Cold Hard News, a debut mystery by Maureen Milliken, and Lessons from Tara, a memoir about life with lots of large rescue dogs by David Rosenfelt.
Here’s a taste: “Like Milliken, Bernie O’Dea writes and edits a paper in a small Maine town, Redimere. In “Cold Hard News,” Bernie can’t shake a story that troubles her — a body turns up in a melting snowbank, and it turns out to be Vietnam vet and town eccentric Stanley Weston. The more Bernie uncovers, the more questions she has, and even though she bought the Peaks Weekly Watcher from her first boss, she’s “from away,” so answers aren’t always easy to get.”
“n “Lessons from Tara,” Rosenfelt uses self-deprecating humor to recount what he’s learned about life, love, humans and dogs over the years. Remarkably, Rosenfelt and his wife have rescued more than 4,000 dogs, almost all large, many older, some also sick or injured. They have “been living with between 20 and 40 dogs for almost 19 years.”
You can read the whole column here. Thanks for stopping by!
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