Books Completed Since February 1

 The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip, Jeff Guinn
Three odd ducks: buttoned up Henry Ford, famed inventor Thomas Edison, and, for the first few years of the trip, naturalist John Burroughs, took road trips together on the primitive vehicles of the time.

  James, Percival Everett
I was fascinated by the thought of Huckleberry Finn narrated by his companion Jim, until I read the book. Fascinating opening chapters about Jim's relationship with lonely Huck degenerates into a detour that has Jim performing with a minstrel troupe founded by Daniel Decatur Emmett who wrote "Dixie." I was very disappointed.

  Once Smitten, Twice Shy, Chloe Liese
Last book in the Wilmot sisters' trilogy. Juliet Wilmot is in Scotland, having escaped from a controlling fiance. She runs into shy Will Orsino, who turns out to be the best friend of her sister's finance, and tries to give him lessons in romance. The lessons turn into the real thing.

  Hearts of Darkness, Jana Monroe
Nonfiction. The story of a woman working with the Behavioral Analysis Unit at the FBI.

 The Cliff's Edge, Charles Todd
The latest in the Bess Crawford series has our newly demobbed nursing sister accepting a job taking care of a minor noblewoman after gall bladder surgery. Lady Beatrice receives word that a member of her family has been seriously injured and asks Bess to help him, only for Bess to find out the young man is accused of having killed another man. Can she sort out the mystery before an innocent man is arrested?

The postwar adventures are not quite as taut as the wartime ones, but there is a hint of a different relationship approaching for Bess and her friend Simon Brandon.

  Dry Bones, Craig Johnson
An argument over who owns the bones of a dinosaur dug up on Native American land results in the death of Danny Lone Elk, who owned the property. An assistant district attorney and a passel of FBI agents make solving the crime even more difficult for Sheriff Walt Longmire, who enlists the help of his friends Lucian Connolly and Omar Rhoades. A subplot involving Walt's daughter Cady and her baby daughter Lola also holds repercussions for Longmire.

I love these books, but if I hear one more description about Vic's "tarnished" eyes I think I'm going to scream.