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"[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes."—Chicago Tribune
"Satisfying . . . The Sinner is as busy and bumpy as a storm-filled sky."—Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)
"A suspenseful, white-knuckle tale all the way to the end . . . Gerritsen is not only talented with words, she has unusual medical and scientific expertise, which gives all her books a precious credibility. . . . It's not only a terrific story, it provokes thought about a lot of other issues of international import. And it's real, without special effects, a story that emanates from the real life around us."—Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
"Gerritsen's weaving of unusual crime scenes, complicated investigations, lurid medical details, and moments of visceral fear is truly unique. . . . [The Sinner] will keep the reader quickly turning pages. . . . Into these terrors forges Maura Isles, Queen of the Dead, and riveted, we readers follow her."
–Sun Journal (Lewiston, ME)
"Dark emotions and dangerous secrets permeate this unusually chilling novel. . . . Another gut-wrenching tale from a true master."—Romantic Times (Top Pick)
"Gerritsen just keeps getting better with each book. . . . [The Sinner] moves at a heart pounding pace without a word wasted."—Drood Review of Mystery
"Assured, richly shaded."—Publishers Weekly
"Another captivating, horrific thriller in her extremely popular canon."—Booklist
"Well-executed and entertaining."—News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)
The morning's snowfall had turned into a treacherous mix of both snow and sleet, and the city plows were nowhere in sight. She drove cautiously along Jamaica Riverway, tires swishing through deep slush, windshield wipers scraping at hoar-frosted glass. This was the first winter storm of the season, and drivers had yet to adjust to the conditions. Already, several casualties had slid off the road, and she passed a parked police cruiser, its lights flashing, the patrolman standing beside a tow truck driver as they both gazed at a car that had tipped into a ditch.
The tires of her Lexus began to slide sideways, the front bumper veering toward oncoming traffic. Panicking, she hit the brakes and felt the vehicle's automatic skid control kick into action. She pulled the car back into her lane. Screw this, she thought, her heart thudding. I'm moving back to California. She slowed to a timid crawl, not caring who honked at her or how much traffic she held up. Go ahead and pass me, idiots. I've met too many drivers like you on my slab.
The road took her into Jamaica Plain, a west Boston neighborhood of stately old mansions and broad lawns, of serene parks and river walks. In the summertime, this would be a leafy retreat from the noise and heat of urban Boston, but today, under bleak skies, with winds sweeping across barren lawns, it was a desolate neighborhood.
The address she sought seemed the most forbidding of all, the building set back behind a high stone wall over which a smothering tangle of ivy had scrambled. A barricade to keep out the world, she thought. From the street, all she could see were the gothic peaks of a slate roof and one towering gable window which peered back at her like a dark eye. A patrol car parked near the front gate confirmed that she had found the correct address. Only a few other vehicles had arrived so far—the shock troops before the larger army of crime-scene techs arrived.
She parked across the street and braced herself against the first blast of wind. When she stepped out of the car, her shoe skidded right out from under her, and she barely caught herself, hanging onto the vehicle door. Dragging herself back to her feet, she felt icy water trickle down her calves from the soaked hem of her coat, which had fallen into the slush. For a few seconds she just stood there, sleet stinging her face, shocked by how quickly it had all happened.
She glanced across the street at the patrolman sitting in his cruiser, and saw that he was watching her, and had surely seen her slip. Her pride stung, she grabbed her kit from the front seat, swung the door shut, and made her way, with as much dignity as she could muster, across the rime-slicked road.
"You okay, Doc?" the patrolman called out through his car window, a concerned inquiry she really did not welcome.
"I'm fine."
"Watch yourself in those shoes. It's even more slippery in the courtyard."
"Where's Detective Rizzoli?"
"They're in the chapel."
"And where's that?"
"Can't miss it. It's the door with the big cross on it."
She continued to the front gate, but found it locked. An iron bell hung on the wall; she tugged on the pull rope, and the medieval clang slowly faded into the softer tick, tick of falling sleet. Just beneath the bell was a bronze plaque, its inscription partially obscured by a strand of brown ivy.
Graystones Abbey The Sisters of Our Lady of Divine Light
"The harvest is indeed great, but the laborers are few.
Pray, therefore, to send laborers
Into the harvest."
On the other side of the gate, a woman swathed in black suddenly appeared, her approach so silent that Maura gave a start when she saw the face staring at her through the bars. It was an ancient face, so deeply lined it seemed to be collapsing in on itself, but the eyes were bright and sharp as a bird's. The nun did not speak, posing her question with only her gaze.
"I'm Dr. Isles from the Medical Examiner's office," said Maura. "The police called me here."
The gate squealed open.
Maura stepped into the courtyard. "I'm looking for Detective Rizzoli. I believe she's in the chapel."
The nun pointed directly across the courtyard. Then she turned and shuffled slowly into the nearest doorway, abandoning Maura to make her own way to the chapel.
Snowflakes whirled and danced amid needles of sleet, like white butterflies circling their lead-footed cousins. The most direct route was to cross the courtyard, but the stones were glazed with ice, and Maura's shoes, with their gripless soles, had already proven no match for such a surface. She ducked instead beneath the narrow covered walkway that ran along the courtyard's perimeter. Though protected from the sleet, she found little shelter here from the wind, which sliced through her coat. She was shocked by the cold, reminded yet again of how cruel December in Boston could be. For most of her life, she had lived in San Francisco, where a glimpse of snowflakes was a rare delight, not a torment, like these stinging nettles that swirled under the overhang to nip her face. She veered closer to the building and hugged her coat tighter as she passed darkened windows. From beyond the gate came the faint swish of traffic on Jamaica Riverway. But here, within these walls, she heard only silence. Except for the elderly nun who had admitted her, the compound seemed abandoned.
So it was a shock when she saw three faces staring at her from one of the windows. The nuns stood in a silent tableau, like dark-robed ghosts behind glass, watching the intruder make her way deeper into their sanctuary. Their gazes swerved in unison, following her as she moved past.
The entrance to the chapel was draped with a strand of yellow crime scene tape, which had sagged in the doorway and hung crusted with sleet. She lifted the tape to step beneath it and pushed open the door.
A camera flash exploded in her eyes and she froze, the door slowly hissing shut behind her, blinking away the afterimage that had seared her retinas. As her vision cleared, she saw rows of wooden pews, whitewashed walls, and at the front of the chapel, an enormous crucifix hanging above the altar. It was a coldly austere room, its gloom deepened by the stained glass windows, which admitted only a murky smear of light.
"Hold it right there. Be careful where you step," said the photographer.
Maura looked down at the stone floor and saw blood. And footprints—a confusing jumble of them, along with medical debris. Syringe caps and torn wrappings. The leavings of an ambulance crew. But no body.
Her gaze moved in a wider circle, taking in the piece of trampled white cloth lying in the aisle, the splashes of red on the pews. She could see her own breath in this frigid room, and the temperature seemed to drop even colder, her chill deepening as she read the bloodstains, saw the successive splashes moving up the rows of benches, and understood what had happened here.
The photographer began to click off more shots, each one a visual assault on Maura's eyes.
"Hey Doc?" At the front of the chapel, a mop of dark hair popped up as Detective Jane Rizzoli rose to her feet and waved. "The vic's up here."
"What about this blood here, by the door?"
"That's from the other victim, Sister Ursula. Med-Q boys took her to St. Francis. There's more blood along that center aisle, and some footprints we're trying to preserve, so you'd better circle around to your left. Stick close to the wall."
Maura paused to pull on paper shoe-covers, then edged along the perimeter of the room, hugging the wall. Only as she cleared the front row of pews did she see the nun's body, lying faceup, the fabric of her habit a black pool blending into a larger lake of red. Both hands had already been bagged to preserve evidence. The victim's youth took Maura by surprise. The nun who had let her in the gate, and those she had seen through the window, had all been elderly. This woman was far younger. It was an ethereal face, her pale blue eyes frozen in a look of eerie serenity. Her head was bare, the blond hair shorn to barely an inch long. Every terrible blow was recorded in the torn scalp, the misshapen crown.
"Her name's Camille Maginnes. Sister Camille. Hometown, Hyannisport," said Rizzoli, sounding Dragnet-cool and businesslike. "She was the first novice they've had here in fifteen years. Planned to take her final vows in May." She paused, then added: "She was only twenty," and her anger cracked through the facade.
"She's so young."
"Yeah. Looks like he beat the shit out of her."
Maura pulled on gloves and crouched down to study the destruction. The death instrument had left raggedly linear lacerations on the scalp. Fragments of bone protruded through torn skin, and a clump of gray matter had oozed out. Though the facial skin was largely intact, it was suffused a dark purple.
"She died facedown. Who turned her onto her back?"
"The sisters who found her," said Rizzoli. "They were looking for a pulse."
"What time were the victims discovered?"
"About eight this morning." Rizzoli glanced at her watch. "Nearly two hours ago."
"Do you know what happened? What did the sisters tell you?"
"It's been hard getting anything useful out of them. There are only fourteen nuns left now, and they're all in a state of shock. Here they think they're safe. Protected by God. And then some lunatic breaks in."
"There are signs of forced entry?"
"No, but it wouldn't be all that hard to get into the compound. There's ivy growing all over the walls—you could hop right over without too much trouble. And there's also a back gate, leading to a field, where they have their gardens. A perp could get in that way, too."
"A few in here. But outside, they'd be pretty much buried under snow."
"So we don't know that he actually broke in. He could have been admitted through that front gate."
"It's a cloistered order, Doc. No one's allowed inside the gates except for the parish priest, when he comes in to say Mass and hear confession. And there's also a lady who works in the rectory. They let her bring her little girl when she can't get child care. But that's it. No one else comes in without the Abbess's approval. And the sisters stay inside. They leave only for doctors' appointments and family emergencies."
"Who have you spoken to so far?"
"The Abbess, Mother Mary Clement. And the two nuns who found the victims."
"What did they tell you?"
Rizzoli shook her head. "Saw nothing, heard nothing. I don't think the others will be able to tell us much, either."
"Why not?"
"Have you seen how old they are?"
"It doesn't mean they don't have their wits about them."
"One of them's gorked out by a stroke and two of them have Alzheimer's. Most of them sleep in rooms facing away from the courtyard, so they wouldn't have seen a thing."
At first Maura simply crouched over Camille's body, not touching it. Granting the victim a last moment of dignity. Nothing can hurt you now, she thought. She began to palpate the scalp, and felt the crunch of shifting bone fragments beneath the skin. "Multiple blows. All of them landed on the crown or the back of the skull. . . ."
"And the facial bruising? Is that just lividity?"
"Yes. And it's fixed."
"So the blows came from behind. And above."
"The attacker was probably taller."
"Or she was down on her knees. And he was standing over her."
Maura paused, hands touching cool flesh, arrested by the heartbreaking image of this young nun, kneeling before her attacker, blows raining down on her bowed head.
"What kind of bastard goes around beating up nuns?" said Rizzoli. "What the fuck is wrong with this world?"
Maura winced at Rizzoli's choice of words. Though she couldn't remember the last time she'd set foot in a church, and had ceased believing years ago, to hear such profanity in a sanctified place disturbed her. Such was the power of childhood indoctrination. Even she, for whom saints and miracles were now merely fantasies, would never utter a curse in full view of the cross.
But Rizzoli was too angry to care what words came tumbling out of her mouth, even in this sacred place. Her hair was more disheveled than usual, a wild, black mane glistening with melted sleet. The bones of her face jutted out in sharp angles beneath pale skin. In the gloom of the chapel, her eyes were bright coals, lit with rage. Righteous anger had always been Jane Rizzoli's fuel, the essence of what drove her to hunt monsters. Today, though, she seemed feverish with it, and her face was thinner, as though the fire was now consuming her from within.
Maura did not want to feed those flames. She kept her voice dispassionate, her questions businesslike. A scientist dealing in facts, not emotions.
She reached for Sister Camille's arm and tested the elbow joint. "It's flaccid. No rigor mortis."
"Less than five, six hours then?"
"It's also cold in here."
Rizzoli gave a snort, exhaling a puff of vapor in the frigid air. "No kidding."
"Just above freezing, I'd guess. Rigor mortis would be delayed."
"How long?"
"Almost indefinitely."
"What about her face? The fixed bruising?"
"Livor mortis could have happened within half an hour. It doesn't help us all that much with time of death."
Maura opened her kit and set out the chemical thermometer to measure ambient temperature. She eyed the victim's many layers of clothing and decided not to take a rectal temperature until after the body had been transported to the morgue. The room was poorly lit—not a place in which she could adequately rule out sexual assault prior to the insertion of the thermometer. Wrestling off clothes might also dislodge trace evidence. Instead she took out syringes to withdraw vitreous fluid for postmortem potassium levels. It would give her one estimate for time of death.
"Tell me about the other victim," Maura said as she pierced the left eye and slowly withdrew vitreous fluid into the syringe.
Rizzoli gave a groan of disgust at the procedure and turned away. "The vic found by the door was Sister Ursula Rowland, sixty-eight years old. Must be a tough old bird. They said she was moving her arms when they loaded her into the ambulance. Frost and I got here just as they were driving away."
"How badly injured was she?"
"I didn't see her. Latest report we got from St. Francis Hospital is that she's in surgery. Multiple skull fractures and bleeding into the brain."
"Like this victim."
"Yeah. Like Camille." The anger was back in Rizzoli's voice.
Maura rose to her feet and stood shivering. Her trousers had wicked freezing water from the soaked hem of her coat, and her calves felt encased in ice. She had been told on the phone that the death scene was indoors, so she had not brought her scarf or wool gloves from the car. This unheated room was scarcely warmer than the sleet-swept courtyard outside. She shoved her hands into her coat pockets, and wondered how Rizzoli, who was also without warm gloves and scarf, could linger so long in this frigid chapel. Rizzoli seemed to carry her own heat source within her, the fever of her outrage, and although her lips were turning blue, she did not seem in a hurry to seek a warmer room anytime soon.
"Why is it so cold in here?" asked Maura. "I can't imagine they'd want to hold Mass in this room."
"They don't. This part of the building's never used in winter—it's too expensive to heat. There are so few of them still living here, anyway. For Mass, they use a small chapel off the rectory."
Maura thought of the three nuns she'd seen through the window, all of them elderly. These sisters were dying flames, flickering out one by one.
"If this chapel's not used," she said, "what were the victims doing in here?"
Rizzoli gave a sigh, exhaling a dragon's breath of vapor. "No one knows. The Abbess says the last time she saw Ursula and Camille was at prayers last night, around nine. When they didn't appear at morning prayers, the sisters went looking for them. They never expected to find them in here."
"All these blows to the head. It looks like sheer rage."
"But look at her face," said Rizzoli, pointing to Camille. "He didn't hit her face. He spared her face. That makes it seem a lot less personal. As if he's not swinging at her specifically, but at what she is. What she stands for."
"Authority?" said Maura. "Power?"
"Funny. I would have said something along the lines of faith, hope, and charity."
"Well, I went to a Catholic high school."
"You?" Rizzoli gave a snort. "Never would've guessed."
Maura took a deep breath of chilly air and looked up at the cross, remembering her years at Holy Innocents Academy. And the special torments meted out by Sister Magdalene, who had taught history. The torment had not been physical but emotional, dispensed by a woman who was quick to identify which girls had, in her opinion, an unseemly excess of confidence. At the age of fourteen, Maura's best friends had not been people, but books. She'd easily mastered all her classwork, and had been proud of it, too. That was what had brought Sister Magdalene's wrath down upon her shoulders. For Maura's own good, that unholy pride in her own intellect needed to be beaten into humility. Sister Magdalene went about the task with vicious gusto. She had held Maura up to ridicule in class, had written cutting comments in the margins of her immaculate papers, and sighed loudly whenever Maura raised her hand to ask a question. In the end, Maura had been reduced to conquered silence.
"They used to intimidate me," said Maura. "The nuns."
"I didn't think anything scared you, Doc."
"Lots of things scare me."
Rizzoli laughed. "Just not dead bodies, huh?"
"There are far scarier things in this world than dead bodies."
They left the body of Camille lying on her bed of cold stone and moved back around the room's perimeter, toward the bloodstained floor where Ursula had been found, still alive. The photographer had completed his work and departed; only Maura and Rizzoli remained in the chapel, two lone women, their voices echoing off stark walls. Maura had always thought of chapels as universal sanctuaries, where even the spirit of the unbeliever might be comforted. But she found no comfort in this bleak place, where Death had walked, contemptuous of holy symbols.
"They found Sister Ursula right here," said Rizzoli. "She was lying with her head pointed toward the altar, her feet toward the door."
As though prostrating herself before the crucifix.
"This guy's a fucking animal," said Rizzoli, the angry words clipped off like shards of ice. "That's what we're dealing with. Out of his mind. Or some coked-up asshole looking for something to steal."
"We don't know it's a man."
Rizzoli waved toward the body of Sister Camille. "You think a woman did that?"
"A woman can swing a hammer. Crush a skull."
"We found a footprint. There, halfway up the aisle. Looked to me like a man's size twelve."
"One of the ambulance crew?"
"No, you can see the Med-Q team's footprints here, near the door. That one in the aisle's different. That one's his."
The wind blew, rattling the windows, and the door creaked as though invisible hands were tugging at it, desperate to get in. Rizzoli's lips had chilled to blue, and her face had taken on a corpselike pallor, but she showed no intention of seeking a warmer room. That was Rizzoli, too stubborn to be the first to capitulate. To admit she had reached her limit.
Maura looked down at the stone floor where Sister Ursula had been lying, and she could not disagree with Rizzoli's instincts, that this attack was an act of insanity. This was madness she saw here, in these bloodstains. In the blows slammed into Sister Camille's skull. Either madness, or evil.
An icy draft seemed to blow straight up her spine. She straightened, shivering, and her gaze fixed on the crucifix. "I'm freezing," she said. "Can we get warm somewhere? Get a cup of coffee?"
"Are you finished here?"
"I've seen what I need to. The autopsy will tell us the rest."
From the Hardcover edition.
Posted June 7, 2010
Rizzoli is plunged into a murder that also forces her to confront her feelings about Dean once more. Her current situation involves a decision that must be made quickly and will set the course of her life to come. Isles must also make decisions about her personal life while maintaining her continued image as a strong woman-in-charge. Both of the tough female characters are vulnerable in their introspection as revealed to the reader. Gerritson is good at this sort of writing.
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Posted October 9, 2011
Began reading the series (starting with the first book) just this year and I was so happy to finally have found a series that I don't want to stop reading. Luckily with my nook, I don't have to wait. As soon as I'm finished with one book, I download the next and start reading right away!
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Posted May 21, 2012
This book was so much better than The Apprentice, the previous book in the series. Why did I enjoy it more? The characters were more interactive, expanded into their personal lives, and showed their struggles with the cases extending into their lives. If you didn't like The Apprentice, please give this book a try. I think you will think differently about the author and her ability to write stories.
Dr. Isles became more personable. Last book she was portrayed as a medical examiner who was very smart, but to me a cold person. There was really no interaction with other characters or activity outside of the office/morgue. This left me feeling like things were black and white with her. In this book, she is portrayed as a human being with feelings and struggles, not a perfect person with a perfect life. Her personal life is a larger part of the story. I liked that.
Rizzoli is dealing with issues of the case for various reasons. She is also struggling with some personal issues from the past as well as the new. We also get to learn a little more about her family, including the Golden Child, her brother, Frankie.
I really liked this book. It was a good mix of all the personal stories and the mystery. The mystery for me was awesome. I enjoyed it all the way to the end and the outcome was unique. Just a good blend of church, medical, and corporate issues blended into one.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.This is a series of must reads for people who enjoy complex characters and good detective stories. You can welome the continuing characters into your home and root for them to catch the "bad guys". I thoroughly enjoyed the entire series and hope for more.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.It¿s only four days before Christmas and the citizens of Boston are in an uproar because two nuns in a cloistered abbey are bludgeoned with one dead and the other barely alive. Boston Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles discovers that Sister Camille gave birth to a stillborn deformed son. The other nun that was attacked, Sister Ursula was only back in the abbey a year after doing nursing work at a leper colony in India. She remains in intensive care but the doctors aren¿t hopeful that she will recover.<P> Maura is called out on another case when a woman is shot to death, her hands and feet are amputated, and her facial skin peeled away. The woman also has some strange lesions on her body and after exhaustive study, they learn she was suffering from Hansen¿s Disease. A vice president of a company that has a factory near the leper¿s colony is found shot to death, the victim of an assassin just before he was scheduled to talk to the Justice Department. All three of these cases are linked and once that connection is discovered, the police will probably know who the killer is.<P> Tess Gerritsen has joined the ranks of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs with this fantastic and shocking medical thriller. Jane Rizzoli, one of the more popular Boston detectives, plays a secondary role in THE SINNER because she is as concerned about her unexpected pregnancy as she is about these cases. Dr. Maura Isles is the star of this tale because it is her esoteric medical knowledge that is needed if the case is to be solved.<P> Harriet Klausner
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Posted January 10, 2015
I have read the previous 2 books in the series and really felt this one was the best by far. The characters are becoming more natural and the book reads better. The medical details, while still there, do not overshadow the characters anymore. I think the author is getting more comfortable with the fictional world she has created and it is reflected in her writing, making the novel flow much more smoothly. I am looking forward to the rest of the series with high expectations. Stephanie Clanahan
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.This book was just ok. It moved really slow and was super hard to get into. The final climax though totally made up for it. The trick is getting through it to that point
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Posted February 21, 2013
2/21/13 A very good read.
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Posted December 26, 2012
By far her best out of the series thus far, these characters are really taking shape and Gerritsen weaves a very edgey story with lots of twist and turns!!!!
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Posted October 23, 2012
I'm a mystery fan, especially of those written by women. Good book! I find it interesting that Rizzoli and Isles in the series do not match the Rizzoli and Isles in the books, but I enjoy both.
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Posted September 15, 2012
Cannot get enough of this series!! Just can't put them down....finally have a series that I can really get into!! Read this book in one day! Now starting the next one, Body Double. Tess Gerritsen is my new favorite author!!
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Posted July 3, 2012
All the books I have read in this series have been great and this is no exception. You may find yourself not wanting to put it down just like I did. I didn't stop reading it till I had finished it.
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Posted April 9, 2012
I thoroughly enjoy the details involved in these books. They are a very good thriller, mystery with sub-stories. I would recommend for adult readers.
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Posted March 3, 2012
I had watched the series on TV and so I decided to buy the Nook books starting with #1. They have all been so good so far the I can't wait to get to the next one.
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Posted February 11, 2012
Not as good as the last two books.
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Posted February 1, 2012
Good characters and storylines. You won't want to put it down.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I love all of Tess Gerristen's books, whether they are about Rizzoli & Isles or another character.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I found THE SINNER by Tess Gerritsen very entertaining. It continues with the very likeable characters Rizzoli & Isles. The murders are messy and the solution quite involved but intriguing. There is a big suprise in this book for the lovers of Rizzoli! Be ready!
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Loved the strong female protagonists that is not overdone or one dimensional the way I find Larsson to be. Characters are dealing with real human dilemmas at the same time as telling a great stopry with twists and turns. Enjoyable rread!
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Posted December 12, 2010
I could not put this ( book ) down. I give it a 10!
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Nose: Quite thick and very smoky. Notes of smoked meats and kippers, a good seaweedy note. Bramley apple peels and a quiet peat.
Palate: Full and very smoky. A solid slab of peat descends with an oaky bitterness. Coastal.
Finish: Barley, thick, smoky, lo
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text: Teen pleads not guilty to rape at school sports campFrom Stephanie Gallman, CNNUpdated 11:17 AM ET, Wed September 4, 2013Galileo Mondol, 17, is one of three high school soccer players who authorities allege entered a cabin occupied by freshman students and assaulted three victims at a camp in western Massachusetts.Story highlightsGalileo Mondol faces charges that include aggravated rape of a childMondol pleads not guilty at arraignmentDefense attorney: "He knows he will be exonerated"Three JV soccer players from suburban Boston were arrested last weekA Massachusetts teen accused of raping a fellow student at a summer sports camp pleaded not guilty Tuesday.Galileo Mondol, 17, is one of three high school junior varsity soccer players who authorities allege entered a cabin occupied by freshman students and assaulted three victims at a camp in western Massachusetts.At Tuesday's hearing, prosecutors said the three went into the freshman cabin searching for victims, using a broomstick to assault them.Attorney William Korman told CNN that Mondol was an innocent bystander and actually tried to stop the other students from getting involved. Mondol is being tried as an adult and faces charges that include aggravated rape of a child under 16, indecent assault and battery on a person who has turned 14, assault and battery and intimidation of a witness.On Tuesday, he should have been heading to school for the first day of classes."I imagine he planned on getting dressed for his first day of school, and instead he had to get arraigned on felony charges," Korman said. "He's very mature for his age. He understands the severity of the charges, but he's also confident because he knows he didn't do anything. He knows he will be exonerated." Mondol is being held without bail pending a "dangerousness" hearing Friday, Korman said. If Mondol is found to be dangerous, the judge can continue to hold him without bail for 90 days. If the judge finds him not dangerous, his bail will be set at $100,000.Two other JV soccer players, both 16, face similar allegations, prosecutors said in a statement.It was unclear Tuesday whether they had been arraigned or entered pleas in response to the charges. Frederick Lantz, a spokesman with the Berkshire District Attorney's office, said he could not reveal details about their cases because they were minors.The assaults occurred last month at Camp Lenox near Otis, a town in western Massachusetts, according to the Berkshire District Attorney's Office.The city of Somerville, just northwest of Boston, rented the facility for team-building activities for its fall sports teams.A criminal investigation began after the allegations were reported to members of the Somerville High School athletic department."We are disturbed and appalled that these crimes may have taken place," Somerville's mayor and schools superintendent said in a joint statement, "and our thoughts and concerns are with the victims and their families."More from justiceRobbers steal more than $4 million in gold heistTamir Rice's mom: 'They never even gave him a chance'New video shows LAPD shooting of unarmed man Powered by Livefyre


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Nneka gets best of Chiney in the WNBA All-Star Game
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a resident of Barron Park
on Jul 21, 2014 at 1:18 pm
Sunday's Chronicle says Chiney got 15 points. Who's right?
a resident of Midtown
on Jul 21, 2014 at 2:57 pm
We are. The AP writer looked at Katie Douglas' total, which was 15 points. Her name in the official box was right above Chiney's. The official box score on the WNBA web site shows Chiney with four field goals and 8 points.
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on Jul 21, 2014 at 3:05 pm
It's an all-star game. Everybody knows that basketball players do not play defense in an all-star game. The stats can't be taken seriously.
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The search to lead the Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District ended when the district's board voted 4-0 and announced the appointment of its new fire chief, Randall Bradley, at its April 10 meeting. He will be paid $157,000 per year to lead the department.
It's an event that draws the community in droves and with good reason, much like the Halloween parade, the Kid's Fest and Safety Fair is all about the kids.
Fearing a 17 percent cut in city services with the loss of current Measure O funds, the Oakdale City Council on Monday night voted 4-1 in favor of requesting the county to place an initiative basically extending the current sales tax measure another five years on the November ballot.
The search to lead the Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection ended when the district's board voted 4-0 and announced the appointment of its new fire chief, Randall Bradley, at its April 10 meeting. He will be paid $157,000 per year to lead the department.
The majority of collisions in the Central Division that end in death or injury begin with a speeding or aggressive driver. To address this issue, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) has embarked on a yearlong, lifesaving endeavor to reduce the frequency of these collisions.
From the nearly perfect weather to well-attended events throughout the week, Oakdale's 63rd annual PRCA Rodeo culminated with a fast-paced weekend of competition. All Around champion at the Oakdale Saddle Club-sponsored rodeo was Elko, Nevada resident Dakota Eldridge. He earned the title and the championship buckle, finishing in the money in both steer wrestling and tie down roping.
The final event in nearly a week of festivities before the start of the actual rodeo, Saturday morning's parade along F Street through downtown Oakdale draws dozens of entries and hundreds of participants.
Weather forecasters are calling for sunny skies and temperatures peaking in the 80s on Saturday, picture perfect for some egg hunting and fun.
I have to admit, this is my first experience with Rodeo Week due to usually taking anniversary vacations in April during my time here at The Leader.
The Modesto Junior College Civic Engagement Project (CEP) invites the community to a screening of the documentary film "Chasing Ice" on Thursday, April 17, at 7p.m. in Forum 110 on East Campus, 435 College Ave., Modesto. This is the final event of the CEP Spring Film and Lecture Series and admission is free. Campus parking is available for $1 in student parking lots.
Beginning on Monday, April 14 the Bureau of Reclamation began increasing releases from Goodwin Dam into the Stanislaus River to benefit Stanislaus River steelhead and San Joaquin River Chinook salmon. Goodwin Dam is located downstream from Tulloch Dam and New Melones Dam and Reservoir, features of the Central Valley Project.
You may be in the midst of a chaotic moment, a health crisis, or even worse and the three numbers that come to mind to call in the emergency are 9-1-1. The people answering the phones are highly trained professionals who may calmly give direction on what to do, or perhaps give life-saving instructions. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) honors the brave men and women you do not see who are behind the scenes. National Public Safety Telecommunicators week is April 13 – 19 and it is a chance to give thanks to the men and women on the other end ...
Assemblymembers Kristin Olsen, R-Modesto, and Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, have announced that AB 1764, a bill that would encourage districts to expand computer science courses in high schools, has unanimously passed the Assembly Committee on Education.
From one end of the community to the other, volunteers fanned out to attack overgrown lawns, clean up alleyways, spruce up planter boxes, help their neighbors and, just generally, Love Oakdale.
Plenty of action items for the Monday, April 7 Oakdale City Council meeting saw a proposal that the city half-cent sales tax be extended for another five years, a narrowly passed move to purchase water conservation software, opposing public comments on the Valley View River Access Trail, and a questionable apology by a city councilman regarding comments made in a recent Oakdale Leader article.
Oakdale Chamber of Commerce will host its 69th Annual Awards on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., staged at the Gene Bianchi Community Center, 110 S. Second Ave., Oakdale.
The Bacigalupi family is well known throughout the Oakdale area. Not only for the infamous H-B Saloon on F Street, but also for their philanthropy including sponsoring the Cowboy Golf Tournament, the annual AFC-NFC Championship Tailgate Party to benefit local causes, donations to Spirit of Oakdale, Community Sharing, the Lions Club Children's Christmas Shopping Tour and several contributions to Oakdale High School sports.
Crab season is alive and well and Oakdale Junior High School's Parent Teacher Club is ready to get cracking.
Life is not being wasted on Bill and Joanne Parker. At the ages of 85 (Bill) and 84 (Joanne), this couple did not wait for New Year's Day to make a resolution or begin a new health plan. On Jan. 2, 2015 the couple could be found in the same place they were on Dec. 31, 2014 … putting in some time at Fitness Plus in Oakdale.
The adage 'one man's trash is another man's treasure' was well portrayed in a recent Stanislaus River homeless camp clean up on Wednesday, Dec 31.
Like many families do, the 'family' of kids, parents and teachers at The Learning Tree Preschool in Oakdale recently completed their holiday 'Gingerbread House' craft making activity, with the children able to take home their sweet treats to display (or eat) over the holidays. Following are some photos from the special craft day.
Law enforcement fatalities in the U.S. rose 24 percent in 2014, reversing what had been two years of dramatic declines in line of duty deaths, based on preliminary data compiled and released by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF).
Assembly Republican Leader Kristin Olsen, (R-Modesto), issued a statement following Governor Jerry Brown's inaugural address on Monday, Jan. 5:
Major construction activities associated with the State Route 99/State Route 219 Kiernan Avenue Interchange Reconstruction Project are now under way.
The California Highway Patrol reported that units responded to a single vehicle collision on Camanche Parkway South, just south of Campo Seco Road in Calaveras County on Saturday morning, Dec. 27, just after 6:45 a.m.
As the summer hit full force, there was talk of drought, and the city continued to deal with budget issues. School resumed in August, locals brought home honors from the county and state fairs and eventually we hit the holiday season – kicking off with Halloween and continuing through the Christmas shopping season.
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is urging motorists to start the New Year on the right path by celebrating responsibly. If the night's events include alcohol, make the smart choice and designate a driver before the celebrating begins. The CHP will be ringing in the New Year on the roadway with motorists as part of a Maximum Enforcement Period (MEP), which begins at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014, and continues through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015.
One lane of eastbound F Street traffic near South Fourth Avenue was closed down for about 90 minutes on Wednesday, Dec. 24 while Oakdale Police, the city's Public Works department and Reliable Tow of Oakdale worked on clearing the roadway after a solo vehicle rollover accident.


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Alcoa Earnings As Expected, Revenue Tops Forecasts
NEW YORK (AP) â¿¿ Alcoa Inc. on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings that met Wall Street's expectations, and the company said it expects slightly higher demand for aluminum this year.
The sluggish global economy has weakened prices for aluminum used in everything from airplanes to soda cans.
But Alcoa forecast demand growing 7 percent in 2013, up from a 6 percent gain in 2012. It sees the best prospects in aerospace but slower improvement in demand for autos, packaging, and building and construction materials.
Separately, the company announced that Chief Financial Officer Charles D. McLane Jr., 59, will retire and be replaced by William F. Oplinger, the chief operating officer of Alcoa's primary-products business unit. The change will happen April 1.
Oplinger, 45, joined Alcoa in 2000 and has held several finance and planning jobs. He is on the executive council, which plots company strategy. In the fourth quarter, Alcoa's net income was $242 million, or 21 cents per share. That includes one-time gains like income from selling a hydroelectric project on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. Without those gains, the company would have made 6 cents per share â¿¿ exactly what analysts expected, according to FactSet â¿¿ on revenue of $5.90 billion. Sales were higher than the $5.58 billion that analysts predicted. A year ago, the company posted a fourth-quarter loss of $191 million, or 18 cents per share, on revenue of $5.99 billion, and a loss after special items of 3 cents per share. The company said it hit record profits in its aluminum-rolling and product-making businesses while cutting costs in its mining and refining or "upstream" segment. Chairman and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld said the company overcame volatile aluminum prices and global economic weakness and was in "strong position to maximize profitable growth" in 2013. Kleinfeld said aerospace sales were helped by aircraft-order backlogs at Airbus and Boeing, plus improved profits at the world's airlines.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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The Spartan Showcase is one of the top youth basketball events in the Midwest area. We have been sold out for the past 4 years with over 150 teams in attendance for the 2 day event. We had teams from 5 different states giving you an opportunity to play teams from different areas. All 4th thru 8th grade teams will play all games on campus and in local gyms . We are also known for the best awards as each player from the first place team in Green division will receive a glass statue.You are guaranteed 4 games for $395. We will have different divisions for tournament play as this gives teams a way to make sure they get an opportunity to play teams of their caliber. Games will begin Saturday morning at 8am. Registration will end February 15th, 2015. We sold out early last year so I would suggest you register asap.
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- 3rd-6th grade are 12 minute stopped clock halves. 7th & 8th grade are 14 minute stopped clock halves.
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- If a team is up by 25 in second half the clock will run. If score get to 20 then clock stops again.
- Teams can press until they get up by 20 then please take it off.
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- All Players will receive 5 personal fouls.
- All free throws are 1 & 1 unless it is a shooting foul bonus starts. On the 7th foul (there is no double bonus)
- Halftime is 3 minutes in length.
- You will get between 3 & 5 minutes to warm up before each game.
- 2 technical fouls will result in being removed from the bench for the rest of that game only.
- Overtime will consist of 2 minutes running time, 2 ot will consist of 1 minute running time 3rd ot is sudden death with a bucket no foul shots.
- If there is any disputes the site supervisor will make all final decisions (but we know there won't be any right coaches).
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- To determine pool seedings we will us e the following: 1) head to head 2) plus or minus 15 3) total points scored
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The World We All Want
We all dream of a better world—a world of security, plenty and friendship. Christians believe that God promises just such a new world. And the Bible is the story of what God had done and what he will do to keep that promise.
The world we all want is for people who are interested in discovering the message of the Bible. It is an introduction to the whole Bible story—the story Christians believe to be the story of our world and its future. And as you start to see how wonderful God's story is, you'll also start to see how his story can become yours as well.
You can work through this course on your own, with a friend or as a group. Each participant will ideally have their own handbook which includes diagrams, Bible passages and places to write their own thoughts and ideas.
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- The Bible story: The World We All Want presents the gospel through the Bible story. It presents the biblical worldview that people need if they are to understand the work of Christ. Moreover, retelling the Bible story offers an engaging way of presenting the gospel to people today.
- A community: Often presentations of the gospel are individualistic, focusing on an individual's relationship with God. It then becomes difficult to teach people about the church except in functional terms or terms than contradict the message of grace. The focus of the Bible, however, is on God's plan to create a people who are his people. The World We All Want focuses on the communal nature of gospel in a way that naturally integrates the church into the message of the gospel.
- A point of connection: The course begins by engaging with people's desire for a better world, showing how God promises such a world in the Bible and how Jesus gave us a glimpse of that world. This provides a natural point of contact with people; a common aspiration. It establishes at the beginning of the course a reason why the Bible story is so important. As the course develops, however, it makes it clear that this world cannot be human-centred, it must be God-centred.
The World We All Want has been designed so that it be used one-to-one, in small groups or 'Alpha-style'. It is ideal to use before or after other courses like Christianity Explored and Alpha. The course is already being used with people of different nationalities, different social classes and different ages from Aberdeen in Scotland to Tasmania in Australia.
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A biblically-faithful, gospel-rich, culturally-sensitive presentation of the good news. This approach by Chester and Timmis captures both the beauty of the story and the urgency of the invitation.
- J.D. Greear, Author of Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
One of the most frustrating things as we try to evangelize and disciple our friends is material to assist the journey. Steve and Tim have assisted us greatly with a resource that is biblical, practical and gospel-centered.
- Pastor Darrin Patrick, Lead Pastor of The Journey, St. Louis, MO, and author of For the City, and Church Planter: The Man, The Message, The Mission
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Some copies of TWWAW were printed with some errors in the summaries below the pictures at the start of each chapter. This is being corrected on a revised version, but please be aware that some copies in circulation may be wrong. The correct summaries should be:
• Session 1: God promises the world we all want. We know this promise is real because there was a point in history when we glimpsed the world we all want.
• Session 2: Jesus had the power to make God's new world. But Jesus said it was necessary for him to die so we could enjoy it.
• Session 3: We have spoiled the good world that God made, but God promises someone who will put it right.
• Session 4: God promises a people who know God and a land of plenty and security.
Table of contents
- Session One
- God Promises the world we all want
- Revelation chapters 21-22 and Mark chapter 5
- Session Two
- Jesus shows us God's new world
- Mark chapters 4-5 and Mark chapter 8
- Session Three
- We have spoiled God's good world
- Genesis chapters 1-3
- Session Four
- God promises a new world
- Genesis chapters 12 and 15 and Romans chapter 4
- Session Five
- We cannot create God's new world
- Nehemiah chapter 9 and Ezekiel chapter 36
- Session Six
- We can enjoy God's new world because of Jesus
- Mark chapters 15-16
- Session Seven
- Christians are God's people waiting for God's new world
- Acts chapters 1-2
- For leaders
- Further Reading
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Author | Tim Chester, Steve Timmis |
Format | Saddle stitch |
Dimensions | 152mm x 229mm |
Pages | 72 |
No. of studies | 7 |
Publisher | The Good Book Company |
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This is an engaging study that causes the reader to think about the big picture presented in the Bible. I've used it in a 121 context with a believer and it promoted discussion on all sorts of topics, as well as upon foundational matters facilitated by the study questions.
We have been running this course at our church for a number of years and the book makes it really easy. It is also a brilliant overview of the Bible for seekers, starting with common agreement about what a perfect world would be like, then showing that this is exactly what the Bible promises, how Jesus has the power to bring it about, and how the rest of the Bible fits in. We love it.
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As pointed out on Twitter today, there's some good news for baseball fans today: the wait until Spring Training is officially half over. The middle of February is looking closer and closer now that January is a few days away, so before we know it, pitchers and catchers will begin their yearly migration down to the warmer climes. Our long, dark teatime of the soul is all but over.
But this is bittersweet news. Yes, the wait until Spring Training is almost over, but the coming month and a half is typically the slowest, most painful time of the offseason. The Winter Meetings have passed and baseball news has slowed down to a crawl, so there isn't much to keep us baseball-philes content. This January promises to be more eventful than most, considering Prince Fielder is still on the market and there are multiple potential trades that may happen, but I'm not about to set my expectations too high.
Since things can get so slow this month, this is typically the time of the year when I update and re-edit the Sabermetric Library — a mid-winter cleaning, if you will. I haven't begun dusting out the cobwebs yet, though, as I'd love to get input on what people would like to see this time around. And so…
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QWhat's playing on your iPod when you're designing?
ABon Iver, Belle and Sebastian, Robyn, Feist.
QWhen did you realize you had designer potential?
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2011 Global StarCraft II Team League Season 1
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This GSTL used the same map pool as the previous GSTL, but was changed mid-season:
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Crevasse and Xel'Naga Caverns were replaced with Antiga Shipyard and Daybreak[1] between GSL July and GSL August, thus the GSTL Season 1 always used the same map pool as the concurrently running GSL.
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- The new GSTL Full Group League will be played every Thursday and Friday.
- The 12 participating teams will be divided into two groups:
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- Each team will go through a full league and the top 3 teams from each group will advance to the playoffs.
- Matches will be played in the usual King of the Hill team league format:
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Champions | ₩30,000,000 | $27,600 | €19,500 |
Runner-up | ₩15,000,000 | $13,800 | €9,750 |
Coach Award | ₩5,000,000 | $4,600 | €3,250 |
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Kabuto first appeared in the chuunin exam as a leaf student who was extremely weak but extremely smart. Though it was soon short lived when he was shown as a hidden spy of the Sound village. Kabuto is not weak but extremely strong and is able to hold his own to Kakashi and some of the best ninjas.
Kabuto is Orochimaru's right hand man and does only the most difficult missions for the sound because he is the only one Orochimaru can slightly trust. Kabuto rarely questions anything ordered by Orochimaru and follows up every command.
Kabuto was found by a medical team by the leaf at a young age and was not really good at any particular genre of fighting but as shown in the series he is extremely talented in tactics and medical jutsu. So much so that he was able to deal with Tsunade while his body movement was reverted.
Kabuto is a very strong ninja for the sound and is the second in command of the operations that happen in the Sound village. He takes care of all the arrangements for Orochimaru while his arms were unable to move. Kabuto is a extremely strong ninja but some have rumored that he is part of the Akatsuki.
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Quote by sup-ppl you called? I felt no specific need to defend Kabuto, but if my presence in requested...theres something wrong oboro didnt come in with his lecture yo oboro Before I exert myself though, may I ask Sannin_Songo why he/she believes Kabuto is a "Loser" |
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Quote by Sannin_Songo no doubt he is a loser like come on stop sucking orochimarus dick
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We were lucky to see the changing of the guards just a few minutes after we started the tour


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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: First PS3 screensFinal Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn gets a small tease with new PS3 screenshots and some artwork, as well as a few details on the PS3 interface and controls. The new (and nice-looking) screens in our gallery show off a new UI for the PS3 version. You'll see 16 slots in an action bar, with the left and right sides accessed with the L2 or R2 buttons. You can map each side's eight slots to the d-pad's four directions, or the four face buttons. See how that works? Beyond this, you can set up 8 action bars, cycling through them with the L2 or R2 buttons. As for this new artwork, you'll see old pals like Odin and Leviathan are going to be showing up for the party. There's also a peek at Skilled Chocobos, teasing some of the pet breeding side of FFXIV: A Realm Reborn. Finally, there's a peek at a level 40 dungeon. My body (and PS3 controller) are ready!
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Final Fantasy XIV's Gold Saucer is amazing if you like Triple Triad or Chocobo Racing 12:00 PM on 02.27.2015 |