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The Way Of The Bear
Anne Hillerman’s 8th book in her mystery series featuring Navajo detectives Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito is a page-turner. Taking it to bed thinking you’ll drop off to sleep is a mistake. Instead, you’ll find yourself reading until the morning’s light. Set in Utah’s Bear Ears National Monument territory, The Way of the Bear places husband and wife Navajo detectives Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito in mystical surroundings. Against a backdrop of Mesozoic Age artifacts and Indian tradition, they struggle to solve a series of modern crimes. Murder hadn’t been on their agenda as the pair headed from New Mexico to Utah. Chee’s assignment was to meet a paleontologist who wanted to make a sizeable donation to a Navajo police charity. Manuelito wanted a holiday, a consolation for having lost a job promotion. Neither is prepared to deal with the cast of thugs, thieves, and killers that await them. Nor could they have predicted that nature would summon a storm to block roads and cut off electronic devices as it dumped several feet of snow over the normally tawny landscape. After Bernadette’s phone goes dead during a worrisome conversation with her sister about their mother’s deepening dementia, the detective decides to leave her exploration of ancient cave paintings and return to New Mexico. As she drives to her hotel intending to pack, she notices a car by the side of the road seemingly mired in the snow. She stops to investigate and discovers the woman inside the vehicle is about to give birth. With medical help out of reach, Manuelito assists with the delivery. To her surprise, the baby’s first cry awakens maternal longings within her, emotions that confuse her thoughts about her future. Meanwhile, a security guard has driven Chee to his appointment with the paleontologist. Despite the storm, they arrive at the scientist’s home on time. What they find is a body slumped near the entrance and a door forced open by the blows of an axe. Entering the hose, they discover it is empty and the premise intact, except for traces of yellow powder in some of the rooms. Where is the scientist? And who murdered the man outside being buried in the snow? Chee is forced to investigate. As he plows through the evidence and interviews several suspects, he encounters more bodies, one of them his wife’s. She’s alive but she’s been hogtied and stuffed into the trunk of a suspicious car. Once released, she joins Chee’s hunt for the murderer and the missing paleontologist. The pair knows they must hurry because, with each passing minute, the snow is burying forensic evidence and there could be more victims. Hillerman’s style is taut like a drum beat as she carries the plot forward. Even so, she takes sufficient time to paint the mind’s eye with depictions of Utah’s majestic landscape, the source of much Navajo lore. Few since Stephen Crane have made the connection between the environment and the human condition as palpable. For lovers of mystery, Hillerman’s The Way of the Bear is a must-read.
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Happy 4th Birthday to Detective Sanders & Kill In The Blank!
If you want to see the entire series plus the reveal of the killer, I made this last year!
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hi! im just here to give a few more details on the lost serial killer × detective fic. i think jungkook was the serial killer (but i could be wrong) and im not sure if it was taekook or jikook. it was a long long fic, chaptered, and the ending had something to do with a railway track. i hope that helps! i'm sorry i don't know more :(
hey! i read a fic a really long time ago that was incredible. I think it could have been jikook but im not 100% sure. It was like a serial killer x detective type thing. And jungkook was a psycopathic serial killer and it was sort of like a killing eve type thing. i remember a scene where jimin (or whoever the detective was) comes home to find someone who wronged him tied up in his apartment, and jungkook is there and wants jimin to kill the guy. And then another scene where they go on this midnight drive together because nobody can know. And it was all very complicated and i'm explaining this horribly but i thought maybe it was worth seeing :)
(thanks to @ladyc0312 for the suggestion!)
ok i've spent too much time on ao3 trying to look for this elusive fic, and I still don't think i've found it, but I'm just gonna post a few that are along the same vein:
Jikook/Taekook + Serial Killer AU/Detective AU
TW: these are all heavy fics with serious topics so read the tags carefully and proceed with caution!
Heathen by Daebon (Jikook, 31 Chapters, E, 161K)
when the caged owls sing by taetaeggukkie (Taekook, 4 Chapters, E, 32K)
The Depraved Duet (series) by nocturnehelli (Jikook, 2 works, E, 224K)
Bonne Nuit, My Angel by HighFunctioningFan (Jikook, 2 Chapters, E, 17K)
I genuinely don't know if these are anything at all, most likely the author has deleted it but I could try and keep looking if you really want me to?
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Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio will star in the Disney Plus series Daredevil: Born Again
Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio will star in the Disney Plus series Daredevil: Born Again
Marvel’s DaredevilPhoto: netflix
Kevin Feige took the stage at San Diego Comic-Con for the first time in three years tonight, returning to Hall H to recreate the momentous Saturday of 2019 when he and his Marvel castmates rolled out an absolutely impressive number of television and movies that were supposed to fill the post-End of Game Phase four – almost all of which, with very few exceptions,…
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Happy 3rd Birthday, Detective Sanders, you ol’ rascal!
I made you proud! I took all the Kill In The Blank eps from FB & put them into one consecutive video! 😏🕵️♂️
Enjoy, rookies!
**Beware! The Serial Number Killer is revealed at 41:30!**
And if you’d like to watch the series in it’s original format, click right here! 👇 (Search Kill In The Blank-Thomas Sanders in FB search bar if the link doesn’t lead you directly there)
Happy investigating!
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that damned detective coming by your place to discuss evidence but he’s snuck his way in while you’re getting out of the shower and he’s all “oh birdie. s’lovely seeing you all wet but you know i hate not being the cause of it. why don’t we change that?”
he’s such a whore.
Massive massive slut. The sluttiest slut ever known in the history of slutdom.
He’s SUCH A WHORE- like fully slutted up in his groovy vintage clothes. Has shagged and will shag whoever he wants. Silk designer shirts and gold chains and pussy wagon of a cherry red Porsche and really strong but lush cologne. I’m sorry who does he think he is? Wearing chapstick and being flirty to the fucking extreme. Fuckin illegal to be so pretty and kinky.
Omg you wet out the shower in front of him? You don’t stand a chance. Cancel all plans and phone in sick cause that boy will absolutely break your bed. Your spine. Possibly make you pass out from his dick (refractory period who?)
Plus it goes without saying huge perv total handcuff fetish and idk why but I feel like his favourite thing is anal. And I feel like @indouloureux would want to know that-
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