The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a great book. Strong characters, interesting plot and great writing. Quite a saga but it represents a large swath of American history. Most people are content to let criminals run roughshod over the law for the pleasure of some of the citizens. No care about the harm caused or the injuries inflicted. This is a feel-good story about a families growing and changing some for the better and others for the worse.
I could not put it down

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The Black Swan of Paris by Karen Robards
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is the story of a Parisian singer who uses her alliance with the Resistance to rescue her mother from the Nazis. As the darling of Paris’s music scene, she helps her manager, an SOE operative working with the British, posing as a Frenchman. The discovery that the Germans have killed her father and taken her mother prisoner, move the story to a cat and mouse game of trying to rescue her mother.
The story is delightful complex and often unbelievable. The action at the end saves the book.
Except for too many pages and far too much after the climax, it was an enjoyable WWII fantasy.

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