Book Reviews

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Homicide in Hardcover
10 March 2010, 6:00 pm

by Carlisle, Kate

Brooklyn Wainwright is a bookbinder. Doesn't sound that exciting, but sheenjoys it. When her mentor and former boss is given the project of a lifetime, a copy of Goethe's Faust, Brooklyn is slightly jealous but knowsAbraham deserves it. However the book is said to be cursed and anyone whoworks with it, or on it, will die. When Abraham is murdered everyonethinks it's the curse. But when Brooklyn is accused of the murder shedecides to take matters into her own hands. Will she find the killer? Orwill the murderer find her?______________________________

- reviewed by Elizabeth, , PLCMC

Source: Reader's Club Latest

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The Truth About Lord Stoneville
7 March 2010, 6:00 pm

by Jeffries, Sabrina

Fate brings together two conflicted characters in this Regency Romance by the talented Sabrina Jeffries. Both Oliver Sharpe, the Marquess of Stoveville, and Maria Butterfield, American heiress, are in search of a marriage partner. Oliver needs a fake fiancé to thwart his devious grandmother’s matrimonial threats, and Maria traveled across the ocean to find her lost fiancé.  After a chance encounter at a brothel, of all places, they make a deal to help one another.  Jeffries delivers two complex characters who learn relationships are never easy, and changing is even harder. With a fast paced plot and several surprises, Jeffries has the reader hooked for the new series of the Hellions of Halstead Hall.  

- reviewed by Sally, Beatties Ford Road Branch, PLCMC

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Daily Dose for Mon, Mar 8: Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life
8 March 2010, 2:00 am

Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life by Charles Baxter and Peter Turchi

Reviewed by L. from Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Source: Powell's Books: Daily Dose