Ford County, by John Grisham

Ford County by John Grisham
Belfry Holdings, Inc - Doubleday - Random House ISBN 987-0-385-53245-7

pg 48
Leon latched the wheelchair into place with strips of packing twine

if he was using twine, he'd be lashing, not latching

pg 235
hundred and foty acres

typo, should be forty, not foty

Under the Dome, by Stephen King

Under the Dome by Stephen King
Scribner (a division of Simon & Schuster) ISBN 978-1-4391-4850-1

pg 124: Captain Barbara
pg 228: Lieutenant Barbara
pg 766: Lieutenant Barbara

It's highly improbable a Colonel would accidentally refer to a former Captain (one he'd just promoted to Colonel) as "Lieutenant."

pg 275
"There's the Dipper ... Cassiopeia ... the Great Bear.

the Dipper and the Great Bear are the same constellation (ursa Major). Granted, there's also a "little dipper," but when one leaves off the "big" or "little" designation one is referring to the big one.

pg 367
"Li'l Walter," the woman in the bloody jeans said again

she's wearing sweatpants, not jeans (see page 358)

pg 427
she had flushed all of her pills -- not just the methadone but a few last Oxycontin

methadone is liquid, not pill.

pg 429
A plastic hose was clamped to a valve on the back of tanker.

typo, left out the article "the" ...back of the tanker.

pg 433
He looked up and saw the Big Dipper, the Great Bear, Orion.

again, the big Dipper and the Great Bear are the same.
also, it's unlikely he'd see the Dipper and Orion at the same time. See: http://www.pixheaven.net/photo_us.php?nom=080927_7093-109traits

pg 513
"How about four counts of murder..."

at this time Big Jim doesn't know there are exactly four bodies.

pg 646
His good feeling... lasted until he pushed the flush-lever.

by now he should be out of water, just like his neighbors are.

pg 664
"Hell, his own son could have used it."

reads like he's referring to Coggins' son (Coggins doesn't have a son).

pg 815
...and then there was bark.

typo, "then there was a bark," or "then there was barking."

pg 854
every almost seat in the Town Hall was taken.

typo, "almost every," not "every almost."

pg 915
"Andy punched Jessie in the nose when Jessie wouldn't lend Andy his art-gum eraser."

if spelling is Jessie, it would be "her eraser." Male spelling with same pronunciation is Jesse.

pg 1025
"Was it a malfunction?" "No, it did not."

question should be "did it malfunction?" or the reply should be "No it was not."

Bad Business, by Robert B. Parker

Bad Business, by Robert B. Parker
G. P. Putnam's Sons - Penguin Group ISBN 0-399-15145-1

pg 27
"But its important that they don't coincide."

"its" is a contraction of "it is" and needs an apostrophe.

pg 50
"On the other hand," I said "people don't report gunfire anyway."

should be a comma after "said."

The Professional, by Robert B. Parker

The Professional by Robert B. Parker
G. P. Putnam's Sons - Penguin Group ISBN 978-0-399015594-9


pg 28
I refused to dress up to work out

refuse

pg 50
"You want me to come by and iron yours shirts, too?"

your

pg 104
"She knows, of course, and they remain friends, with a, necessarily, open marriage."

at least one too many commas.

pg 117
"Well, I guess I'd answer why would I be unmonogamous."

"why would I be monogamous." He's arguing against monogamy.

pg 137
"but in the circumstance, I was not at my most analytic."

"under the circumstances," unless he's trying to show she's somewhat illiterate?

pg 152
...still nodding to whatever music he was hearing in the spheres

what spheres?

pg 216
In the month she graduated from Tarbridge High School, she married a guy name Boley LaBonte, and divorced him a year later.

first, "in" is superfluous. "The month she graduated" is fine.
second, typo: should be "a guy named" not "a guy name"

pg 217
Up a hill past the red light

this is dialect, but not New England dialect. "past the traffic light," "past the light"

Lost Echoes, by Joe R. Lansdale

Lost Echoes by Joe R. Lansdale
Vintage Books - Random House Inc ISBN 978-0-307-27544-8

pg 1 (intro)
Bodies were found in a car at the bottom of a vine and brush-covered hill

need a hyphen after vine. "vine- and brush-covered"

pg 7
Big, rusted, humped-back bugs moving in extreme slow motion toward the concealment of the woods.

sentence fragment.

pg 7
There was an old woodstove that had been converted to gas

If that's not outright impossible, it would be way too expensive to consider, except maybe as a novelty project. Maybe it's an old electric stove that was converted to gas?

pg 41
(the hand) was short fingered and thick like a catcher's mitt, scarred all over from wrenches that slipped and slammed them into bolts and sharp-edged metal.

first, short fingered needs a hyphen.
second, the subject changes from the hand to the fingers. Better would be "and slammed it into bolts...", better yet would be "...like a catcher's mitt, the fingers scarred all over from..."

pg 116
Somewhere a police car made with a whoop-whoop sound.

"with" is unneccessary.

pg 163
watch when you zip up, least you hang the meat.

typo: "lest" instead of "least."

pg 229
while Talia made coffee

Talia isn't there. It's Kayla making the coffee.

pg 322
The chief parked the car at the edge of the cliff, put it in gear... "What I'd like you to do... is slide back behind the wheel, and then put it in gear..."

the chief probably took it out of gear, not "put it in gear."

in a recipe for Taco Seasoning Mix...

 
6 tsp child powder

chili? and instead of 6 tsp I might use 2 tbsp (same amount)

from the AP:

 
Slow-going on roads as snow storms hits East Coast

storms hits?

Ack! It's everywhere!

 
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