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The Thursday Club

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Anne Wingate, writing as Lee Martin, has a little known and much beloved series of police procedurals with one of the most interesting heroines in women's mysteries.

Although the Thursday Club is not one of the top books in the series (it is #13), it holds your interest, keeps you guessing, and leaves off with still another twist & turn in the family life of Deb Ralston.

Please, Lee....bring her back for more!

I have read and re-read the Deb Ralston series. They are wonderful police procedurals (written by an ex-cop), but they are even more wonderful character studies. Deb is a Ft. Worth police detective who possesses an immense amount of empathy and intuitiveness in her crime solving. She is also a wife, mother - with 3 adopted children of mixed ethnicity, as well as one natural child - and is earthmother to a whole tribe of friends, family and, in some cases, suspects. Her intuition often leads her to make leaps in logic, going from point A to point C, but she arrives at the answers sooner, rather than later. The Thursday Club is one of the weaker books in the series, primarily because the continuity is missing. Deb has aged 5 years from the last book, but her children haven't. Some of the colorful friends from previous books are missing, and there is less about her personal life in this book. However, it is well worth the effort. The only thing more frustrating than the breaks in continuity has been waiting more than 3 years for the next Deb Ralston. I hope that this series doesn't go the way of the author's other series, written as Anne Wingate. It ended abruptly and no new book has been forthcoming. Deb is an old friend, and I want to see more of her.

I've read most of the Deb Ralston series and have really enjoyed them. They make you think. I like the way we can get into Deb's thoughts--even though she's sometimes wrong. The books are quite interesting and fun while you try to figure out who-done-it. I'm looking forward to the next one!

this Deb Ralston mystery was more emotional from my point of view. I cried in a few places.
Deb is a Fort Worth police detective in special crimes unit but she also works in murders when she is first on scene.
Deb is out Jogging with 2 friends they go out every thursday running together scince her doc and her boss both have told her she needs to get back exercising.
This thurs they are running earlier than usuall because Deb has to testify in a case and she wants to be able to shower before going into work. They take turns at ending at each others house for hot chocolate. this time Its Jeanne turn to host, but first she runs upstairs to bring her husband down scince he was still sleeping when she left. He is in a wheelchair and she finds him dead in his bed with a gun laying beside him.
Deb gets the case and they even find his dog knocked out.
While deb is in court the cops are still at Jeanne house and her sister-in-law Sue turns up dead in a locked room with cops in the house. than robbery was found still while cops are thier. Jeanne son who was back east in boarding school has been asleep under a couch he took a valiom and is a suspect or he heard the murder.
More deaths and confusion as they try to find out who killed whom and why. FBI was investagating Curtis because he was gun runner even while confined to wheel chair.
Its has twists and turns and keeps my attention in the story. It seems almost everyone of Deb stories she collects stray animals or children in them. I liked the book.