Kristi Jones

Dec 16, 2024 | crimereads.com | Kristi Jones

On January 27, 1943, the first American women’s expeditionary force in history landed in North Africa. This company, the 149th Post Headquarters Company, had been specifically requested by General Dwight D. Eisenhower to work at his Allied Force Headquarters (AFHQ) in Algiers. Article continues after advertisementAt the time, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Force (WAAC), was a controversial corps of women attached to the United States Army.

Nov 19, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Kristi Jones |Louise Penny |Kathy Reichs

One of those rare triple-deckers that’s actually worth every page, every complication, every bead of sweat. A routine break-in at the home of Sûreté homicide chief Armand Gamache leads slowly but surely to the revelation of a potentially calamitous threat to all Québec. At first it seems as if nothing at all triggered the burglar alarm at Gamache’s home in Three Pines; it was literally a false alarm.