A Ted Feit Book Review Trio

Portobello Ruth Rendell Scribner, 2010 ISBN: 978-4391-4851-8 Hardcover This is not an easy book to read.  Nor is it a mystery.  It is a somewhat disjointed story of some disparate characters joined only by the Portobello, a winding street in London filled with stalls and shops where one can find almost anything at any price. [...]

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May 30, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: The Burning Lake by Brent Ghelfi

The Burning Lake Brent Ghelfi Poisoned Pen Press, May 2011 ISBN No. 9781590589274 Trade Paperback (also available in Hardcover) When Alexei Volkovoy, a Russian agent, learns of the death of Katarina Mironova, he is   horrified.  Katarina was a prominent journalist known as Kato and Volk has close ties to Kato.  The two had an intense [...]

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May 23, 2011  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: The Bone Chamber by Robin Burcell

The Bone Chamber Robin Burcell Poisoned Pen Press, 2009 ISBN 9781590583753 Hardcover Feisty independent-minded FBI forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick is off again.  This time she bouncing between Washington, DC, San Francisco and various Italian locations.  All the while she and her cohorts dodge international hit men. Burcell is a good writer and her varied law [...]

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December 9, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade

The Hunchback Assignments Arthur Slade Narrated by Jayne Entwistle Listening Library, 2009 ISBN 0739380206 Unabridged Audio Book Modo is an abandoned child in Victorian London, a child with such a fearsome appearance that no one could possibly care for him.  Mr. Socrates, though, a mysterious gentleman of means,  takes Modo in and raises him in [...]

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March 6, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews  No Comments