Name Withheld

Name Withheld by J.A. Jance is a J.P. Beaumont Mystery. Wanted to start reading the series in order they were published but does not appear that library has all the novels. The library, btw, is hooked up with sites like Amazon with a book wish list. Any who want to help, can purchase specific books wanted by library which will automatically ship to Long Beach. Library web page has links to type of media needed. Check it out using this link.

I am becoming a book critic. Jance and Edna Buchanan are fast becoming favorite authors ~ both are much published authors ~ yet I find sentences like this (okay, part of a sentence) "...became a pioneer in installing in-ceiling or wall-mounted security systems." Too many in's in a row for me. Deleted and stopped recording double words, specifically "had had". She had had a bad day. Ouch. Quite common grammar usage among authors and English was not my best subject in school, so...

From Name Withheld: "Downtown here, it's mostly ordinary muggers and homeless lowlife panhandlers." Character called them "equal-opportunity criminals" ~ they do not "care if you're gay or straight." Of course, there are homosexuals, lesbians, transgener and bi-sexual people among the homeless population.

Perhaps it is only my own paridigm that homosexuals were nice to homeless people. I liked when I lived on Broadway in a mostly homosexual apartment complex. My assumption was that because LGBT are often outcasts, they were kinder or more accepting of others like them, on the fringe for one reason or another.

It does seem that downtown areas are often rift with homeless panhandlers. I do not make the low-life assumption myself, but many people view homeless as such.