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AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
Wed Aug 12, 2020, 08:09 PM Aug 2020

Barack And Joe Solve A Murder Mystery

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I ran across this novel a couple years ago, "Hope Never Dies". It was a fun read:

Barack And Joe Solve A Murder Mystery
August 4, 20185:33 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered




If you missed the news on Monday, former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were spotted dining out at a Washington D.C. cafe, rekindling their Oval Office "bromance" over sandwiches and fennel salad.

But there's also word of another meeting between the two former running mates, in which they team up to [checks notes] solve a murder.

OK, fine, maybe that didn't happen. But it is the plot of a fun new book called Hope Never Dies: An Obama-Biden Mystery, by Andrew Shaffer. It begins with "Uncle Joe" Biden sitting at home when he receives an unexpected visitor.

"It's the dark, mysterious arrival of the former best friend," Shaffer says. "And the book is really about two people reconnecting after they've had a little bit of time apart."

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/04/635395648/barack-and-joe-solve-a-murder-mystery
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Barack And Joe Solve A Murder Mystery (Original Post) AmyStrange Aug 2020 OP
Ty, Amy! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #1
You're welcome n/t AmyStrange Aug 2020 #2
😊 SheltieLover Aug 2020 #3
It sure is, right? AmyStrange Aug 2020 #7
😱 SheltieLover Aug 2020 #8
Loved it. Fun. It takes place in my hometown Walleye Aug 2020 #4
Gotta check that one out also, and... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #5
Got it! AmyStrange Aug 2020 #6
It starts out with Biden complaining about the first book, but... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #9
That's the first one. The follow up is "Hope Rides Again". Both are a sinkingfeeling Aug 2020 #10
Walleye told me, and I'm reading it right now, and... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #11
 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
7. It sure is, right?
Wed Aug 12, 2020, 08:28 PM
Aug 2020

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Walleye informed me that a second one came out called, "Hope Rides Again".

YAY!
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Walleye

(30,697 posts)
4. Loved it. Fun. It takes place in my hometown
Wed Aug 12, 2020, 08:17 PM
Aug 2020

I’m very familiar with the Amtrak station there and the neighborhood. There’s a second one I think the title is “Hope Rides Again” takes place in Chicago. I haven’t got it yet

 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
9. It starts out with Biden complaining about the first book, but...
Wed Aug 12, 2020, 08:42 PM
Aug 2020

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it's called, "Murder on the Amtrak Express" instead of, "Hope Never Dies."

It's hilarious!
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AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
11. Walleye told me, and I'm reading it right now, and...
Wed Aug 12, 2020, 08:55 PM
Aug 2020

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thank you.

It's hilarious how it starts out with Biden complaining about the first one.

Ha ha ha ha ha
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