Books

Right here is where we can share books we have written or those of others that our readers can recommend to the rest of us. I have several friends whose books are in the hopper right now and will be appearing here soon–including my own, I hope!

A friend of mind just discovered Kindle and has uploaded several of his books that I didn’t even know existed. I just finished reading “The Laughing Cow” and got so enthralled I didn’t stop reading until I got to the end, all 308 pages of it and discovered it was way past dinner time. The author is Jim Belmessieri. “The Laughing Cow” radiates comedic bursts of dark humor and psychological thrills from a sweet love story core.

“In a hospice ward full of eccentric elderly, promising young doctor Henry Fitzsimmons has finally found the love of his life–a nurse–only to lose both her and his mind in a tragic accident resulting in slow-healing head trauma. Recovering in his own ward and surrounded by his former patients, Henry desperately struggles to reconcile the past and present, imagined and real. Trapped inside his head and able only to observe the absurd events around him as his fellow patients go off their meds he witnesses a murder. Or has he?

Stalled in time, as both doctor and patient, Henry comes to know his new companions better than he otherwise would; and now he must protect them from imminent danger while struggling through his own confusion.

At once humerous and heartbreaking, “The Laughing Cow” is a tale of dangerous passions; hope and regret; and love lost and found.

Jim has 23 books listed already, but if you choose “A Cedar Box” have a huge box of kleenex nearby.