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First some reviews and links to order them now!
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Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a periennial favorite!
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"Trouble in Paradise"
by Robert Parker
Following the success of "Night Passage", Robert Parker
revisits Paradise, Massachusetts, and its police chief,
Jesse Stone, in "Trouble in Paradise". In this second
installment, Parker takes more time to flesh out Jesse's
troubled life and his relationship with his ex-wife, Jenn.
The novel is also a riveting tale of cat and mouse, as Chief
Stone tries to head off the elaborate score plotted by Jimmy
Macklin and his team of expert killers and thieves.
"Prime Cut"
by Diane Mott Davidson
Diane Mott Davidson is the master of the culinary mystery.
In her "Prime Cut", Goldy Schulz lands a plum
contract catering for a fashion shoot. But just when things
are looking up, she finds herself investigating two deaths
that strike close to home. "Prime Cut" mixes an intricate
mystery with a dash of clever characterization and a
generous serving of cooking insight (plus some delicious
recipes to boot).
"Field of 13"
by Dick Francis
The 1996 Mystery Grand Master, Dick Francis, a Welsh
steeplechase jockey who transformed himself into one of the
most respected and popular mystery writers in the world, has
published his first short-story collection, "Field of
13." From a spring race in Cheltenham to the Grand National
and the Kentucky Derby, the volume collects several
published and unpublished Francis mysteries crafted with
Francis's inimitable grace.
The writer chisels an office out of her home, a pleasant
though low-ceilinged space she shares with the oil burner--
the perfect companion as it is not human, doesn't talk, and
gives off a nice steady hum just like a library. This, of
course, is after finally making some money at writing, since
such an act would have been deemed frivolous, to say nothing
of selfish, before. She posts a notice that she is not to be
disturbed except in dire emergency. Thirty seconds after the
posting, a dire emergency arises--two Girl Scouts at the
front door selling cookies. The kind of cookies to buy and
the transaction itself is apparently something only the
writer has the authority to do. She throws open the office
door in response to the frantic knocking, and upon hearing
the request, with eyes ablaze, she lets loose with, "An
emergency is the house catching fire!"
Then she slams the door. The next sound she hears is the muted whimpering of a
betrayed child. It takes a while to train the household
troops that the writer in their midst is a volatile alien
requiring a daily ration of solitude. A published writer, as
opposed to a writer who simply writes for love, is a ruthlessly disciplined person. This is something I tell my
writing students incessantly, but they don't really get it.
They moan that they just don't have the time to write.
(There are only three writers in the country flush enough to
have the time to write--three plus that handful of writers
blessed by Oprah and, to a lesser extent, Imus. The rest are
on the phone trying to sell you beef from Omaha.) So I ask
the students how long it takes to make their beds. Average
time they figure--4 minutes. So I say, "There's 4 minutes
right there!" Then I ask: "How long to eat lunch?" Students:
"Half an hour." Me: "We're already up to 34 minutes! Do you
watch TV at all?" No answer. My students are now slinking out
of the room to see if they can drop my class and sign up for
Fundamentals of Accounting. That's what it's like to be a
writer. Sleeping on wrinkly sheets with the bottoms pulled out.
"The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories"
by Elmore Leonard
Order now"Incident at Twenty Mile"
by Trevanian
Order now"Blue Light"
by Walter Mosely
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Here's a rich selection of mysteries and thrillers from some major authors. Get a jump on the holidays and order your copies of these novels by Iain Pears, Lawrence Block, and Anne Perry.
"A Breach of Promise"
"Death and Restoration"
"Everybody Dies"
by Lawrence Block (one of my "all time favorite" authors)
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by Anne Perry
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by I Pears
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