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reviewed Sons of Fortune (Archer, Jeffrey). April 13, 2011
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Sons of Fortune (Archer, Jeffrey)
Fletcher Davenport and Nat Cartwright are two successful young men - but they also happen to be twins separated at birth as a result of the unscrupulous actions of a well-meaning nurse in the hospital …
reviewed The Simple Truth. April 09, 2011
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The Simple Truth
Rufus Harms, a giant of a black man, has served 25 years of a life sentence in a Virginia military prison for the brutal killing of a young white girl. When some obscure government correspondence results …
reviewed The Rule of Four. April 07, 2011
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The Rule of Four
The Rule of Four is a coming-of-age novel built around a real-life mystery, The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance book that has puzzled scholars and historians for 500 years. As a literary device, …
reviewed Aztec. April 03, 2011
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Aztec
In a word, Jennings' monumental work on the Aztec empire is outstanding. A simultaneous success on multiple fronts, Aztec is a gut-wrenching drama, a romance, an epic family saga, a titillating R-rated …
reviewed Mind Games. April 02, 2011
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Mind Games
Dr Timothy Dare is a forensic psychiatrist working as a consultant for the criminal courts in Vancouver. His wife, unquestionably the light of his life, has just left him and is having an affair with …
reviewed One for the Money. March 31, 2011
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One for the Money
Let's face it - the basic premise of this book is so whacked that you just gotta laugh before you even start reading it! Stephanie Plum, a down on her luck and out of work lingerie buyer cons her …
reviewed The Last Juror. March 29, 2011
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The Last Juror
Mississippi's Ford County local weekly newspaper hangs on the edge of bankruptcy and Willie Traynor, a rather shiftless ne'er do well college dropout, hears from a chum that a publication like …
reviewed Pride and Prejudice (book). March 26, 2011
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The marriage, property and inheritance laws of the late 18th and early 19th century, by today's standards, can be considered cruelly misogynistic.      The Bennett family estate …
reviewed Orphans of the Sky. March 25, 2011
Orphans of the Sky
The mutiny took place many, many years ago on an enormous star ship outfitted for a multi-generational voyage to Far Centaurus. The last remaining member of the original crew, for right or wrong, made …
reviewed God Is Not Great: How Religion Poison.... March 24, 2011
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
An atheist manifesto, GOD IS NOT GREAT contains content that ranges from thought-provoking essays to vitriolic diatribes against both the existence of an all-powerful God and the current and historical …
reviewed Digital Fortress: A Thriller. March 24, 2011
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Digital Fortress: A Thriller
TRANSLTR is perhaps the most powerful multiple parallel processor computer on the earth, run by the National Security Agency, dedicated solely to the process of brute force code breaking. An extraordinary …
reviewed Ship of Magic. March 19, 2011
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Ship of Magic
Vivacia is a liveship - a seagoing vessel made of wizardwood sailing out of the trading hub Bingtown - that has magically come alive into self-awareness after the death of Ephron Vestrit, patriarch of …
reviewed The Alienist. March 19, 2011
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The Alienist
In 1896, Theordore Roosevelt hadn't yet made it to the White House. As Commissioner of the New York City Police, Roosevelt was sadly aware that the gruesome serial mutilation and killing of young …
reviewed The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. March 17, 2011
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Like JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, HARRY POTTER, THE WIZARD OF OZ and so many other children's stories that have entered the realm of literature classics, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE …
reviewed The Search (Eve Duncan). March 06, 2011
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The Search (Eve Duncan)
John Logan, ultra-rich businessman, entrepreneur and power broker, has a serious problem. Devastated by the recent death of his Korean wife, Chen Li, from leukemia, he pulls out all the stops on the development …
reviewed 7th Heaven (The Women's Murder Club). March 05, 2011
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7th Heaven (The Women's Murder Club)
7TH HEAVEN is (you guessed it!) the seventh entry in the long-running and surprisingly successful James Patterson series about THE WOMEN'S MURDER CLUB, an informal grouping of professional women that …
reviewed Tchaikovsky (Life and Works (Naxos)). March 03, 2011
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Tchaikovsky (Life and Works (Naxos))
Even from the earliest age, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, like so many other musically precocious world-class composers, displayed an emotional insecurity that was to develop into a string of personal crises, …
reviewed Hound of the Baskervilles (Aladdin Cl.... March 02, 2011
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Hound of the Baskervilles (Aladdin Classics)
When Henry Baskerville, the last remaining scion of the family, travels from Canada to England to take up residence in Baskerville Hall after the puzzling violent death of his uncle, Sir Charles, he is …
reviewed Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explo.... March 01, 2011
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Freakonomics
Freakonomics is a refreshing, thoroughly enjoyable, easy reading, fast paced, witty and cynical breath of fresh air! Levitt and Dubner offer up a series of pointed, thought provoking essays composed in …
reviewed Mad Ship. March 01, 2011
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Mad Ship
In "Mad Ship", Hobb accelerates the pace of her epic saga of the Liveship Traders and significantly expands the breadth and scope of the canvas on which she dramatically paints the lives of …
reviewed The Justice Game. February 27, 2011
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The Justice Game
THE JUSTICE GAME opens with a proverbial and literal bang!      Larry Jamison, crazed and bent on revenge, crashes into a news studio and guns down investigative news reporter Rachel …
reviewed Silent Witness. February 26, 2011
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Silent Witness
Having enjoyed the recent addition of England's Simon Beckett's to the intensely crowded North American forensic pathology thriller field, I was looking forward to another rural mystery with that …
reviewed Derailed. February 23, 2011
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Derailed
I put it to you that there isn't a single forty- or fifty-something man on the planet that hasn't found himself in Charles Schine's shoes at some point!      You have a …
reviewed The Gods Themselves. February 20, 2011
The Gods Themselves
To elevate a work of science fiction from mere novel to literary masterwork is an achievement to which few authors can lay claim. Asimov is one of those authors and "The Gods Themselves" is …
reviewed Dissolution. February 19, 2011
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Dissolution
It's 1537, the height of the English Reformation, and Thomas Cromwell, vicar general for the court of Henry VIII, is absolutely bent on the systematic ruthless dismantling of England's feudal …
reviewed Shatter. February 18, 2011
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Shatter
Joe O'Loughlin, practicing clinical psychologist, and his wife, Julianne, a strikingly beautiful woman and an up-and-comer in the high-flying world of international corporate finance, moved to Somerset, …
reviewed Blind Justice (Sir John Fielding). February 16, 2011
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Blind Justice (Sir John Fielding)
In 1768, a recently orphaned Jeremy Proctor arrives in London and promptly finds himself in the dock facing false charges of theft under the gavel of the blind magistrate, Sir John Fielding. The justice, …
reviewed The Wind in the Willows. February 15, 2011
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The Wind in the Willows (first edition; 1908)
... As history-books have showed;   But never a name to go down to fame   Compared with that of Toad!"      THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, a turn-of-the century …
reviewed The Dead Secret (Oxford World's Class.... February 13, 2011
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The Dead Secret (Oxford World's Classics)
Mrs Treverton, who is not expected to live through the night, summons her lady's maid, Sarah Leeson, to her side. Their hushed conversation reveals that, many years ago, Sarah and Mrs Treverton conspired …
reviewed Body Double. February 12, 2011
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Body Double
Boston medical examiner, Dr Maura Isles, returns home from a working vacation at a forensic pathology conference and is shocked to discover that her home is a murder crime scene with herself starring …
reviewed Flashforward. February 11, 2011
Flashforward
Like Schrödinger's Cat, Flashforward is a confounding, challenging, magnificent thought experiment that is, at once, breathtakingly simply and yet staggering in its possible scope and ramifications.   …
reviewed 2nd Chance (The Women's Murder Club). February 09, 2011
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2nd Chance (The Women's Murder Club)
"The Women's Murder Club", introduced to legions of new fans in "1st To Die", is an intelligent, plausible, modern idea whose time has come. It's also appealingly warm and …
reviewed Storm Cycle. February 06, 2011
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Storm Cycle
The story starts well enough!      Rachel Kirby, a computer whiz kid in Houston, Texas, and a rock hard business woman, will let nothing and nobody stand in the way of the only goal …
reviewed Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel. February 03, 2011
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Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel
In CARVED IN BONE, forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton obviously is the fictionalized version of his creator, Dr Bill Bass, the founder of the real-life Body Farm, a research facility that he runs in …
reviewed Still Life With Crows. January 30, 2011
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Still Life With Crows
What do you get when you combine the supercilious fastidiousness and overbearing punctiliousness of Hercule Poirot; the intensity, pure logic and deductive power of Sherlock Holmes; the austerity, speed, …
reviewed Tanequil (High Druid of Shannara, Boo.... January 29, 2011
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Tanequil (High Druid of Shannara, Book 2)
In Jarka Ruus (Book 1), Grianne Ohmsford, struggled with the inner demons of her former evil life as the Ilse Witch and the politics of her new role as Ard Rhys, High Druid of Paranor. A faction of dissenting …
reviewed The Fiend in Human: A Victorian Thriller. January 26, 2011
The Fiend in Human: A Victorian Thriller
With no small amount of national pride, I'm thrilled to report that mere superlatives somehow seem insufficient to convey Gray's debut success with The Fiend in Human.     Edmund Whitty …
reviewed The Egyptologist: A Novel. January 25, 2011
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The Egyptologist: A Novel
The Egyptologist is an extraordinary, lush piece of literature that trots across the mummy-crazed globe of the 1920s and witnesses Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter's seminal discovery of the vast …
reviewed The Amulet of Samarkand. January 23, 2011
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The Amulet of Samarkand
At the tender age of six years, Nathaniel is taken from his parents and apprenticed as a learning magician to Arthur Underwood, a minor functionary in a dark and fantastical English government. This bleak …
reviewed Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel. January 21, 2011
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Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel
Most thriller fans will pick up a Michael Connelly novel expecting that it's going to be about Harry Bosch. Similarly, most Jeffrey Deaver fans (and I expect there's a whole pile of crossover), …
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