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‘Lies’ – more twists and turns than a Tennessee back road
Mike Rowe delivers exactly what you want: great stories
obert Bailey has many fans in our state, after all, he’s one of us. “Legacy of Lies” is his fifth book and is the first in the Bocephus Haynes series. Courtroom drama as riveting as anything by John Grisham with a story as captivating as David Baldacci’s thrillers, Robert Bailey’s books What was it that made a will make you postpone all chores and hang the do person not quit? Was it not disturb sign. God? The human spirit? Successful litigation Or could it be the people of several high-profile who came along in your verdicts has made life and who taught you Bocephus “Bo” Haynes a to endure the pain … the force to be reckoned with both in the courtroom and obstacles … and the loss out. But the sudden death and keep going? For Bo, of his wife has his life there had been three and family spiraling out such people. of control. His late wife’s parents have custody of his children, as Bo has lost their confidence in his ability to be the father they need. And now, the district attorney general of Pulaski, Tenn., needs his help. Desperately. She’s been accused of murdering her ex-husband, with overwhelming evidence she did it. With more twists and turns than the back roads of Tennessee, you’ll be up all night and glad for it with “Legacy of Lies.” I recommend all of the Robert Bailey books. You will, too. – Deb Laslie
hatever you read, you want a great story. Mike Rowe delivers all that and more in his book “The Way I Heard It.” Part Paul Harvey’s “the rest of the story” and part personal recollections, Mr. Rowe (of TV’s “Dirty Jobs” and “Somebody’s Gotta Do It”) may How many times did I be this generation’s renaissance man. He’s sit in parking lots and done about any job you driveways long after I’d can imagine – either for arrived at my intended his television career or destination, waiting for just because he needed Paul Harvey to utter the money. He’s the guy those words: “And now next door (but he returns your stuff), and, just you know the Rest of the like us, he loves a great Story.” Too many to count. story. I’ve wanted to write stories Mike is interested that can’t be turned off or in people – all people put down until the very – because we all have end. Stories that make stories. The 35 stories in this book are, in his people late. words “for the curious mind with a short attention span.” Some are hilarious, others sad beyond measure, but they all are told with great style. And, like any good storyteller, he makes us a part of the story. They become our stories, too. You’ll want to share this book and these with everyone. It’s a keeper. – Deb Laslie
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