Since this is the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend, the
traditional start of summer – for me it’s the Indianapolis 500 – I thought, why write about
True Believers (idiots/morons)? There’s plenty of time between now and Doomsday…Not!
to point at them and laugh.
That’s not very charitable of me, is it? Well, as an old
buddy used to say, “Life’s tough all over, not just in spots.”
Anyway, since we’re about to enter summer, it seemed a good
opportunity to present a summer read related to the pending Doomsday…Not!
Elizabeth Lowell’s latest book, Beautiful Sacrifice, tackles the Mayan (non-Doomsday) prediction. Publisher’s Weekly wrote: “Lowell deftly
incorporates creepy basement corpse discoveries, sleazy antiquities dealers,
crumbling jungle tombs, charmingly sinister relatives, fascinating
archeological elements, and a well-realized, completely invented Mayan god.”
Some fun, eh? My kind of reading.
Beautiful Sacrifice features
Lina Taylor, an archaeologist, and Hunter Johnson, a former Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agent, searching for stolen Maya artifatcs. Along the way
they stumble upon narco gangsters performing blood rituals, black marketers,
cultists involved in blood sport, and Lina’s “creepy” family.
As one reviewer for Hispanic
Business wrote: “Beautiful Sacrifice
is action, suspense, and romance on par with Lisa Gardner, Linda Howard, Jayne
Ann Krentz, and Nora Roberts ... and exactly the sort of romantic adventure
that inspired Johanna Lindsey to declare, ‘Lowell is great!’”
So forget about Armageddon/Doomsday/End of Days/the
Apocalypse and grab a thrill-a-page novel and emerge yourself in
Armageddon/Doomsday/End of Days/the Apocalypse…oh, wait…is that right…?
Have a nice Friday.
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