1. I think it was last year, possibly in 2023, that one of our Westminster Study Group discussions turned to television shows and my faulty memory dimly recalls that Val and Bridgit both enjoyed ABC's Will Trent.
Well, some time earlier in January (I think), Debbie and Jake were yakkin' at the Lounge and Jake told Debbie he'd like to pass on a book he was reading. A while later, Jake swung by the house and the book he dropped off was After That Night by Karin Slaughter.
It is one of her Will Trent crime mysteries.
I won't go into the storyline too much, but I will say that once Will Trent, Sara Linton, and Faith Mitchell begin their surreptitious and off the books investigation into a series of rapes, this book gripped me and today I spent much of the afternoon and evening reading it.
2. The passages describing the assaults in After That Night are horrifying. Mercifully, most of the book focuses on the investigation and the relationships between the lead characters.
As a way of having something pleasant and soothing in my world while I was reading, I used the TuneIn app and put on Eugene's classical music station, KWAX-FM.
It worked.
Playing quietly in the background were Baroque compositions, recordings of performances given in different venues in Oregon, an hour of classical guitar, an hour long program devoted to American classical music, and other programming. This music was a good influence on my spirit while I delved into the violence and unnerving revelations of After That Night.
3. Debbie dashed to the store, bought some ground beef, used some mushrooms, and stretched the leftover lasagne from family dinner into another main dish that I thoroughly enjoyed along with a couple helpings of the green salad I always have at the ready and add more lettuce and vegetables to, as needed.
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