Archive for August, 2010
A Good Month for a Mystery
Leslie Wheeler is a transplanted California who has lived in the Northeast for many years and has strong New England roots. A graduate of Stanford University with a master’s in English from UC/Berkeley, Leslie has taught adult education, worked as an in-house writer and editor for Barron’s Educational Series, then as a free lance writer [...]
August 31, 2010
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Book Review: A Killer Plot by Ellery Adams
A Killer Plot Ellery Adams Berkley, 2010 ISBN 042523522X Mass Market Paperback Olivia Limoges is a wealthy resident of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, and is a bit of a loner with a mysterious past in this beach town where she lived as a child. Her wealth gives her an air of entitlement, despite a very [...]
August 30, 2010
Tags: Berkley, mystery, Outer Banks, traditional, writing group Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Thrilled to Death by L.J. Sellers
Thrilled to Death L.J. Sellers Echelon Press, September 2010 ISBN 1590807278 Trade Paperback Two young women are missing in Eugene, Oregon, and there is no apparent connection between them, one a single mother of a baby and the other a wealthy local heiress. Danette could have gone off on her own, suffering from postpartum depression, [...]
August 28, 2010
Tags: Echelon Press, Pacific Northwest, police procedural, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Einstein’s Tongue–Have a Ball, Have a Banana
Well folks, I got a surprise for you today. Prepare to be… dramatic emphasis, unsurprised! The school year is kicking into every student’s hard drive forcefully and without welcome. All we get to say is, “Hey, what?!” before the education life is back in the system and running all of its crazy gizmos and whirs [...]
August 27, 2010
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Book Review: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press, August 2010 ISBN 9780439023511 Hardcover At seventeen, Katniss has survived the arena twice and has become the reluctant rallying point of rebellion.  Now living in District 13 since the Capitol destroyed her District 12 homeland, she acknowledges the refuge but can’t be entirely grateful.  Her best friend, Gale, and [...]
August 25, 2010
Tags: mystery, Scholastic Press, science fiction, thriller, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Which Came First: The Root Stock or the Rose?
Donna Fletcher Crow is the author of 35 books, mostly novels dealing with British history. The award-winning Glastonbury, The Novel of Christian England, is her best-known work, an Arthurian grail search epic covering 15 centuries of English history. A Very Private Grave, book 1 in the Monastery Murders series is her reentry into publishing after [...]
August 24, 2010
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Book Review: Drink the Tea by Thomas Kaufman
Drink the Tea Thomas Kaufman Minotaur Books, 2010 ISBN 031260730X Hardcover Willis Gidney grew up rough. He grew up homeless, no parents in sight. A smart kid, he didn’t let that stand in the way of his survival. Along the way, he ran into a guy named Shadrack Davies, a captain in the D.C. police [...]
August 23, 2010
Tags: Minotaur, mystery, private eye Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Mattaponi Queen by Belle Boggs
Mattaponi Queen Belle Boggs Graywolf Press, 2010 ISBN 9781555975586 Trade Paperback “There’s one lady, Nellie Wynn, you know her?” Ronnie asked one day. “Lives over near the post office?” “Yeah,” Skinny said. “That’s my parents’ old place she lives in.” “Oh,” Ronnie said. “It’s a nice house. Every day she offers me a cookie out [...]
August 21, 2010
Tags: American Indians, Graywolf Press, short stories, Virginia Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
The Personal Touch to Writing
Lorie Ham has been singing gospel music and writing since she was a child. Her first song and poem were published when she was 13 and she has gone on to publish many articles, short stories and poems throughout the years as well as write for a local newspaper.  Lorie continues to sing and 4 [...]
August 20, 2010
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Book Review: The Big Grabowski by Carolyn J. Rose & Mike Nettleton
The Big Grabowski Carolyn J. Rose & Mike Nettleton Krill Press, 2009 ISBN 0982144334 Trade Paperback This is one of the funniest mysteries I’ve ever read! It rates so high on my list of all-time favorite mysteries, any author will have to go a long way to displace The Big Grabowski. The first few pages [...]
August 19, 2010
Tags: humor, Krill Press, mystery, Pacific Northwest Posted in: Full Reviews 3 Comments
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