Anne's Arts & Activities Blog

 By Anne Holliday, August 2020, Kane, PA

 

 

 

  Frankie Elkin is on a mission. Several, actually. She wants to find a missing teenager while staying sober and dealing with demons from her past. Lisa Gardner brings Frankie to life in "Before She Disappeared" and, despite her flaws -- or maybe because of them -- I couldn't help but fall in love with her. The main focus of the story is Frankie searching for Haitian immigrant Angelique Badeau who disappeared after school 11 months earlier. The police don't want her interfering, but she does manage to get close to one of the detectives who gives her more information that he knows he should. Angelique's family is skeptical at first, too, but they soon warm up to her, and start depending on her, especially when her brother discovers some clues to his sister's whereabouts. When Frankie connects another girl's disappearance to Angelique's an already confusing set of circumstances becomes even more confusing for the people trying to put all the pieces toget...

 

Woman reading (Oil on Canvas), by Ulisse Caputo Purchase the painting here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/woman-reading-ulisse-caputo.html

  BCPAC is hosting its first-ever Live Virtual Concert with pianist Jim Brickman on Valentine's Weekend. The show will be February 12, 13 and 14 at 7 and 10   p.m. Tickets are on sale now at bcpac.com and are $40 per household. For each ticket sold, $10 will be donated to BCPAC. You can find more information on the hometown events page at wesb.com: https://wesb.com/hometown/

  15. Owning only 300 books? Amateurs! My favorite book-related clothing: My "Atticus Finch Attorney at Law" T-shirt, which I wore to see "To Kill a Mockingbird" on Broadway.