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24 Latest MostlyFiction Book Reviews:
(Last Updated: November 16, 2006 )
 

Book review of  THE GIRLSTHE GIRLS
by Lori Lansens

Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Extraordinary.

 

Book review of  ANGEL AND APOSTLEANGEL AND APOSTLE
by Deborah Noyes

With THE SCARLET LETTER as her inspiration, Noyes recreates the life of Pearl, daughter of Hester Prynne and an unnamed father.

 

Book review of THE HIDDEN ASSASSINSTHE HIDDEN ASSASSINS
by Robert Wilson

A nude male turns up in a municipal dump. Before Seville's Insp. Jefe Javier Falcón has time to investigate, a huge bomb explodes in a mosque flattening an apartment complex and a day-care center.

 

 

Book review of GLAD NEWS OF THE NATURAL WORLDGLAD NEWS OF THE NATURAL WORLD
by T. R. Pearson

Narrator Louis Benford is back again. The Thirty-four year old slacker from Neely, North Carolina is shipped off to New York to work for an insurance company.

 

Read a review of OLD FILTHOLD FILTH
by Jane Gardam

Raised as a Raj Orphan, Sir Edward Feathers (Old Filth) is a retired barrister looking back on the past that produced him. Sophisticated and subtle.

 

 

Book review of THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERILTHE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERIL
by Paul Malmont

It's 1932 and the two top pulp fiction writers, Walter Gibson (THE SHADOW) and Lester Dent (DOC SAVAGE) are tying to solve a real crime.

 

 

Book review of 54 by Wu Ming54
by Wu Ming

The midlife crisis of Cary Grant, the founding of the KGB and the Neapolitan years of mafioso Lucky Luciano are just three of the plot lines woven into this dense, playful and always surprising literary behemoth set in 1954.

 

Book review of LOVE BURNSLOVE BURNS
by Edna Mazya

Obsessive love drives a middle-age man to murder. Debut novel by the famed Israeli playwright.

 

Book review of NO TRACENO TRACE
by Barry Maitland

The latest Brock and Kolla mystery finds the Scotland Yard partners looking into the kidnapping of a six-year-old girl.

 

 

Book review of RESTLESSRESTLESS
by William Boyd

Ruth Gilmartin learns the true identity and WWII profession of her aging mother and is understandably surprised to learn that she had been a spy.

 

Book review of  PAINT IT BLACKPAINT IT BLACK
by Janet Fitch

The author of WHITE OLEANDER does not disappoint in her second novel, which is about a woman who contends with her boyfriend's unexpected suicide.

 

Book review of THE NIGHT GARDENERTHE NIGHT GARDENER
by George Pelecanos

A literary page-turner, set once again in the gritty streets of Washington, D.C. Three detectives have a chance to solve a twenty year old case -- that is similar to a current murder.

 

 

Book review of THE WRONG MANTHE WRONG MAN
by John Katzenbach

For art student Ashley Freeman a one night stand with Michael O'Connell has dire consequences.

 

Book review of THE TRUDEAU VECTORTHE TRUDEAU VECTOR
by Juris Jurjevis

Full Arctic night--the kind that lasts for months--unveils a biological nightmare at Trudeau Arctic Research Station.

 

Book review of THE BOOK OF FATETHE BOOK OF FATE
by Brad Meltzer

Hot shot Wes Holloway's face was disfigured while shot during a frantic assassination attempt the President's life. That was eight years ago.

 

 

Book review of  FROM A CROOKED RIBFROM A CROOKED RIB
by Nurrudin Farah

Ebla runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when her grandfather promises her in marriage to an older man. Farah's first novel reprinted.

 

Book review of  MESSENGER OF TRUTHMESSENGER OF TRUTH
by Jacqueline Winspear

British psychologist and PI Maisie Dobbs is asked to look into the death of a classmate's brother. 4th in this set in post-WWI. See also our review of PARDONABLE LIES now available in paperback.

 

Book review of NO GOOD DEEDSNO GOOD DEEDS
by Laura Lippman

The old saying that "no good deed goes unpunished" is proven once again in Laura Lippman's new Tess Monaghan novel.

 

 

Book review of HOPSCOTCHHOPSCOTCH
by Julio Cortazár

This novel is a classic Latin American novel originally published in 1963, it's title reflects its nonlinear format. A rewarding challenge.


 

Book review of  SICK PUPPYSICK PUPPY
by Carl Hiaasen

Florida muckraker Hiaasen writes a devilishly funny caper revolving around the environmental exploitation of his home state by greedy developers.


 

Book review of  TO A POWER OF THREETO A POWER OF THREE
by Laura Lippman

Stand-alone mystery about three high school girlfriends and a school shooting.

 


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