Well-written Adventures

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Adventure
• Literary
• Strong Characterization

The Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas
F DUMAS
Imprisoned unjustly for supposedly having helped the exiled Napoleon, Edmond Danté escapes after 15 years, finds a treasure in the cavern of Monte Cristo and sets out to reconnect with his childhood love and punish his enemies.

These is My Words
By Nancy E. Turner
F TURNER
In 1881, Sarah Agnes Prine, 17, goes from New Mexico to Texas and back, protecting her family with her rifle, and then becoming ranch manager while her second husband serves as a Texas Ranger. An excellent read.

The Winner Stands Alone
By Paulo Coelho
F COELHO
At the Cannes Film Festival, a successful, driven entrepreneur goes to the darkest lengths to reclaim a lost love. Captured in all their crassness are producers, actors, aspiring starlets, supermodels, and notorious fashionistas, whose lives and actions hold sway over millions.

The Private Patient
By P. D. James
MYSTERY JAMES
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for the wealthier patients being treated by the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. The book has the cerebral qualities James is known for and focuses on the intertwining relationships of the patients and staff that reside at the stately English residence, Cheverell Manor.