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Monday, October 17, 2005

More of the same in "Eleven On Top"

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Kevin’s Corner Sometimes it seems as if a series begins to crash and burn on itself. What used to be funny or at worst mildly amusing become...
Thursday, September 29, 2005

Venturing into "No Man's Land"

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Kevin’s Corner Meza Azul prison in Arizona is supposed to be proof of what private enterprise can do for the nation’s prison system. Superio...
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Hitting The Circuit

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Kevin’s Corner There is an old adage in writing fiction. No, not the beat to death and should be buried under a mountain of lime one abou...
Wednesday, September 07, 2005

The past comes alive in "The Rogues' Game"

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Kevin’s Corner Like the small west Texas town that is never named, the man with no name is not what he appears to be on the surface. He dri...
Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Scareing Parents in "Five Days In Summer"

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Kevin’s Corner For Emily Parker, mother of three, her life, unknown to her, began to unravel the moment she decided to go to the local groce...
Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Joe Pickett is back in "Out of Range"

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Kevin’s Corner This latest novel in the series finds Joe Pickett reassigned from Saddlestring to Jackson Hole, Wyoming on temporary assignme...

Bearing burdens in "Crusader's Cross"

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Kevin’s Corner “The wind smelled of humus, lichen, the musky odor of pecan husks broken under the shoe, a sunshower on the fields across the...
Monday, August 22, 2005

Death, Treats, And Books--Who Could Ask For More?

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Kevin’s Corner In this soon to be released mystery, Hannah Evans has more than enough to do in the small east Texas town of Destiny. Not onl...
Sunday, August 14, 2005

Journalistic Ethics in "Final Copy"

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Kevin’s Corner The year is 1991 and news reporter Addy McNeil is having a hard time of it. Not only is she battling prescription substance a...
Saturday, August 13, 2005

"Barrington. Stone Barrington."

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Kevin’s Corner As many of the Stone Barrington series novels do, this one begins at Elaine’s; a restaurant Stone dines at frequently in New ...
Thursday, August 11, 2005

Orr and Obsession in "Tribeca Blues"

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Kevin’s Corner “Tribeca Blues” picks up approximately a year after events depicted in “A Well-Known Secret” with the shocking death of Leo, ...

Feeling Lucky, Mr. Smith?

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Kevin’s Corner In this fifth novel of the series, Tony Valentine is still dealing with the temptation of Lucy Price, his own son Gerry and h...
Thursday, August 04, 2005

A Well-Known Secret

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Kevin’s Corner Picking up two years after events depicted in “Closing Time” (reviewed below) very little has changed for Terry Orr. He still...
Sunday, July 31, 2005

Detective Harry Bosch is Back!

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Kevin’s Corner Retired Detective Harry Bosch has always needed a mission—a case to work. Thanks to changes in command leadership at the LAPD...
Thursday, July 28, 2005

Shadows of Pain and Light

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Kevin’s Corner One of the fun things about reviewing (and no, it’s not the money) is finding new authors and series that one might not have ...
Sunday, July 24, 2005

Murder and Mayhem At Sea and On Land

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Kevin’s Corner In this sequel to “The Repo” written by Author Bill Eidson, the team of ex-DEA Agent Jack Merchant and boat repo contractor S...
Friday, July 22, 2005

The "Prey" Legacy Continues.....

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Kevin’s Corner It starts, as many in this long running series do, with the discovery of a body. This time, the body is a dead woman posed on...
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Crime Can Be Funny!

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Kevin’s Corner Lily Marsden is very good at what she does. She has managed to kill and kill again and her signature style is to leave no clu...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

No People and Evil Lurking

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Kevin’s Corner A standard of science fiction is the idea of the vanished people. A small town will be eerily silent, or even a big city, and...
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Monday, July 11, 2005

The Obligations of Friendship

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Kevin’s Corner One would think that by now that the assorted thugs, punks, and lowlifes that inhabit the fair city of Boston would have figu...
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