Tag: mystery
member name: Elizabeth V.
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May 31, 2008 07:43 PM EDT --
I recommend only books that I found not-put-downable, and I recommend What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman. This book came with me to the dinner table, and I didn't put it down to go to sleep but fell . . .
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June 05, 2009 04:41 PM EDT --
If you aren't familiar with Lee Child's books, as I wasn't, you should know that his stories involve Jack Reacher, a former army officer who went to Westpoint, a big man who now, apparently, doesn't own . . .
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July 10, 2009 08:04 PM EDT --
1. The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman Polish Catholic zookeepers hide Jews.
2. The Best Cat Ever by Cleveland Amory Cat ownership is funny but precious.
3. . . .
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May 17, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
A man is released from prison after he spent 13 years on death row for a murder he didn’t commit. Or did he? Throughout, Stephen White’s The Best Revenge , it seems so, then it seems not, . . .
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July 23, 2009 05:17 PM EDT --
IN THE WOODS by Tana French is a novel about the investigation into the death of a child. But it is more complex than that; much more is going on with the people involved.
A . . .
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August 21, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
In VODKA NEAT , Faith Zanetti is a 35-year-old English journalist, a foreign correspondent. Her current assignment is to Russia simply because she lived there 16 years ago when it was the Soviet Union . . .
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August 31, 2009 08:49 PM EDT --
First, no, RED ROVER is not a book about a dog. Deidre McNamer could have chosen a better title for this very moving story.
And whoever chose the cover (or dust jacket) should have picked . . .
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June 21, 2009 07:49 PM EDT --
ONE GOOD TURN by Kate Atkinson begins with a road rage incident involving one crazy guy beating a man with a baseball bat and another man, a wimpy writer of popular crime novels, knocking the crazy . . .
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June 27, 2009 09:10 PM EDT --
The first half of Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO presents two separate lives in Sweden: Mikael Blomkvist, a 40-something journalist convicted of libel, and Lisbeth Salander, a 24-year-old . . .
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May 28, 2008 10:37 AM EDT --
If I don't like a book, I don't read another by the same author--usually. But I read Oblivion by Peter Abrahams even though I had disliked another of his books, The Fan . It was a good decision. . . .
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June 09, 2009 06:49 AM EDT --
A 13-year-old boy, Johnny, and his friend, Jack, search for Johnny's twin sister, Alyssa, a year after she has gone missing, after everyone else, it seems, has given up. "It seems" because the case . . .
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June 13, 2009 07:32 PM EDT --
Martin Cruz Smith is a new author for me, and I didn't realize that HAVANA BAY is part of a series of books about a Russian prosecutor's investigator, Renko Arkady. The series begins with the book . . .
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June 17, 2009 08:48 AM EDT --
Michael Connelly's latest book, THE SCARECROW , involves a soon-to-be-laid-off long-time LA Times reporter Jack McEvoy, who decides to "go out with a bang" by writing an investigative story . . .
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September 15, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penny is a mystery that is very different from your usual mystery. That's why I read it.
The story takes place in Canada around the time of the U.S. Civil War, maybe . . .
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July 12, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
The program in Stephen White’s THE PROGRAM is the Witness Security Program (WITSEC), better known as the Witness Protection Program. Designed to protect people who testify at trials for . . .
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August 23, 2009 06:58 PM EDT --
Lisa Gardner’s SAY GOODBYE begins with a sex scene between a slutty girl and a high school football star. You’re safe in assuming that Chapter 1 and the next several chapters aren’t . . .
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May 27, 2009 02:14 PM EDT --
Without giving away too much of the story, I'll say that John Hart's Down River centers on a young man, Adam, who had been accused of murder five years before, was acquitted, moved out of town for five . . .
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July 03, 2009 08:30 AM EDT --
Donna Leon is an author I was not familiar with. So I recently picked up her novel DOCTORED EVIDENCE , which is, apparently, one novel in a series about the cases of a police detective, Commissario Brunetti, . . .
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May 16, 2008 04:17 PM EDT --
A few months ago I was at a library function for some local mystery/thriller writers and discussed with someone there that, in my opinion, most mysteries/thrillers aren't worth my time. Their authors . . .
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September 16, 2008 05:15 PM EDT --
Have you read P.D. James?
She's an author who's written many books, apparently, but I only recently heard of her. So I assumed she wasn't great. I think I could have been wrong.
Because . . .
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