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Book Review: The Heirloom Murders by Kathleen Ernst

The Heirloom  Murders Kathleen Ernst Midnight Ink,  September 2011 ISBN 978-0-7387-2758-5 Trade Paperback A collections curator for an open air museum in Wisconsin, Chloe Ellefson is back in the states after breaking up with her Swiss boyfriend. When he contacts her saying he’s on sabbatical only an hour’s drive away, Chloe’s life gets complicated, especially [...]

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January 14, 2012  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood Canongate, 2005 ISBN 9781841957982 Trade Paperback And we, the twelve who were later to die by his hand At his father’s relentless command, Sailed as well, in the dark frail boats of ourselves Through the turbulent seas of our swollen and sore-footed mothers Who were not royal queens, but a motley [...]

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January 12, 2012  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review Roundup by Gloria Feit

Known to Evil Walter Mosley NAL, February 2011 ISBN: 978-0-451-23213-7 Trade Paperback Leonid Trotter McGill is a 54-year-old African-American man, an amateur boxer known to have had his “finger in every dishonest business in the city” including being a fixer for the mob, who is trying to turn his life around, now working as a [...]

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January 11, 2012  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review Trio by Patricia E. Reid

The Ridge Michael Koryta Little, Brown and Company, June 2011 ISBN No. 978-0316053662 Hardcover Chief Deputy Kevin Kimble is making an early morning drive when he receives a very strange and disturbing phone call. The call is from Wyatt French one of the stranger residents of Kimble’s county.  Wyatt lives on a hilltop known as [...]

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January 7, 2012  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: The Affair by Lee Child

The Affair Lee Child Delacorte Press, September 2011 ISBN 9780385344326 Hardcover Jack Reacher fans celebrate! Step back in time to read the case that separated the man from the military. Uncover secrets and lies and do so in the unique Child style we’ve come to expect. Reacher is the intelligent, tough guy with Sherlock Holmes [...]

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January 5, 2012  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Incarnate by Jodi Meadows

Incarnate Jodi Meadows Katherine Tegan Books/HarperCollins Publishers, January 2012 ISBN 978-0-06-206075-4 Hardcover Eighteen-year-old Ana has spent her entire life abused and reviled because she is a nosoul, born without a past into a world in which everyone else has been continually reincarnated for 5,000 years. Those who are reborn remember all their past lives and [...]

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January 4, 2012  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews  No Comments

Book Reviews Galore by Ted Feit

The House at Sea’s End Elly Griffiths Quercus, January 2011 ISBN: 978-1-84916-367-5 Hardcover [It should perhaps be noted that this review is based on the UK and Canada edition; the US edition is now available in the US from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt] As the book opens Kate, the baby born to Ruth Galloway, the forensic [...]

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January 2, 2012  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: My Dark Places by James Ellroy

My Dark Places James Ellroy Vintage Books, 1997 ISBN 0-679-76205-1 Trade Paperback James Ellroy, prolific Los Angeles crime writer, takes us on a rock-strewn, rutted road through his internal landscape in this memoir, which has at its heart, the loss of his mother to an anonymous murder. This intimate view of the inside of James [...]

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December 31, 2011  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Reviews x 4 by Patricia E. Reid

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, There’s A Body In The Car Fran Rizer Bella Rosa Books, January 2011 ISBN No. 978-1933523941 Trade Paperback There is never a dull moment in Callie Parrish’s life.  Callie is employed by Middleton Mortuary.  Her job title is mortuary cosmetologist but Callie also answers the phone, talks to clients and does [...]

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December 29, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Mercury’s Rise by Ann Parker

Mercury’s Rise Ann Parker Poisoned Pen Press, November 2011 ISBN #987-1590580963-2 Trade paperback (also available in hardcover) I love a good historical, and if it’s an American historical—all the better. I am very pleased to say that this is the best historical I’ve read all year. The fourth in the Silver Rush Series set in [...]

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December 28, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews, Guest Reviews  One Comment