Each year I try to clear the list of books I meant to read and/or review. Some I read and didn’t get around to covering. Some I started and didn’t finish for various reasons. Some simply got lost in the shuffle. So I’m clearing the docket for the new year, without completely ignoring these worthy titles.
It’s all well and good until the students become more interested in their own agendas than the coursework. When a corporate client with a sketchy past “hires” the the team for a launch party a crosscurrent of morals turns into a whirlpool of chaos.
The Fairway Players are once again desperate to put on a fabulous production (however improbable), this time to raise money for a new church roof. They plan is a panto mashup of “Jack and the Beanstalk” with a surprise Santa. But the real surprise comes when dress rehearsal reveals a dead body hidden inside the long-forgotten beanstalk prop.
Steve “Smithy” Smith is both Magwitch and Pip in this unusual story of wild expectations and the long-delayed solution to a mystery that has haunted him for decades.