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5 | Exciting Continuation of First 4MK Novel; Bishop/Porter Story Is Still Incomplete | THE FIFTH TO DIE (A 4MK THRILLER) is a continuation of [[ASIN:0544968840 The Fourth Monkey]]. It is NOT a sequel, and it will make no sense unless you’ve read the previous book, which contains the full text of the diary of the 4MK serial killer (Anson Bishop). THE FIFTH TO DIE chronicles Detective Sam Porter’s contin... | [] | 0544973976 | 0544973976 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,529,335,241,089 | 0 | false |
4 | Aimee Seeks Missing Tell-All Notebook, Is Targeted by Murderers | MURDER ON THE LEFT BANK (AN AIMEE LEDUC INVESTIGATION) is the 18th novel in this series. One can’t argue with success, but the last two (of three that I’ve read) are pretty much interchangeable, except for the specific Parisian locations that Aimee visits. Aimee gets a client, or a puzzle to solve, then runs around P... | [] | 1616959274 | 1616959274 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,528,903,210,421 | 0 | false |
5 | Exciting Police Procedural About Johannesburg Nuclear Industry | My favorite police procedurals are the ones with rich, exotic backdrops, like this one, BAD SEEDS (A PI Jade de Jong Novel). It’s set in Johannesburg, South Africa, and successfully transports the reader to that locale, as private investigator Jade de Jong looks into a security officer’s mysterious disappearance follo... | [] | 1616957948 | 1616957948 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,528,852,254,303 | 0 | false |
5 | Terrific Starter Book for Those Wanting to Design Their Own 3D Models | 3D PRINTING PROJECTS is a terrific starter book for anyone who wants to create his/her own 3D printed models (instead of simply downloading other people’s instructions for making their models). The book starts with a brief, illustrated explanation of how 3D printers work, then goes on to explain in detail how to use a... | [] | 146546476X | 146546476X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,528,301,915,216 | 1 | false |
5 | Authentic Down-Home Southern Cooking Recipes | SOUTHERN FROM SCRATCH: PANTRY ESSENTIALS AND DOWN-HOME RECIPES is my kind of cookbook, because there are so many recipes for jams, pickles, canned sauces, vinegars, relishes, applesauce, sauerkraut (fermented cabbage), and other “homely” foods. (I love to preserve fresh fruits and vegetables from my local farmer’s ma... | [] | 1611803314 | 1611803314 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,527,391,211,173 | 3 | false |
3 | Lincoln Defends Unpopular Accused Killer in Springfield in 1838 | FINAL RESTING PLACE: A LINCOLN AND SPEED MYSTERY is the third novel in this series, which is loosely based on the actual close friendship that existed between Abraham Lincoln and Kentucky native Joshua Speed. The story is set in 1838 in Springfield, Illinois, at a time when Lincoln had an active law practice, was run... | [] | 1683315987 | 1683315987 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,527,371,838,617 | 0 | false |
5 | Sauces Look Gorgeous in Photos; Recipes Read “Scrumptious” | My husband loves sauces, but for me, they’re strictly “meh”. I was hoping that this book, THE ART OF THE PERFECT SAUCE: 75 RECIPES TO TAKE YOUR DISHES FROM ORDINARY TO EXTRAORDINARY, would inspire me, and win me over. But even such mouth-watering offerings as “Creamy Green Peppercorn Pan Sauce” or “Sour Cream and Car... | [] | 1624145043 | 1624145043 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,527,216,154,717 | 2 | false |
5 | Gorgeous to Look at, Filled With Valuable Technical Advice | FASHION AND LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY: SUCCEED IN THE COMMERCIAL WORLD AND BECOME A STAND-OUT PHOTOGRAPHER delivers everything you want in a photography book—it’s gorgeous to look at, and it’s full of really valuable advice and tips for improving your own photographs.<br /><br />The illustrations all have descriptive capti... | [] | 1781574227 | 1781574227 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,527,212,585,480 | 0 | false |
5 | Excellent Reference for New, Experienced Sewing Machine Users | If you have a sewing machine that you use for mending or for making clothes, pillows, etc., then THE SEWING BOOK: OVER 300 STEP-BY-STEP TECHNIQUES is an excellent reference book to have on hand. It consists mostly of large photographs that show you exactly how to accomplish everything from the most basic tasks (e.g.,... | [
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3 | Archeological Alien Horror Fantasy—Total Bloodbath of a Novel | FORSAKEN (A UNIT 51 NOVEL) is the second “Unit 51” alien archaeological horror thriller (for the first, see [[ASIN:0786041587 Subhuman]]), and it works reasonably well as a standalone. However, the series ought to be be read in order, because FORSAKEN is a direct continuation of the first novel (in which Unit 51 scien... | [] | 0786041609 | 0786041609 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,526,179,331,447 | 5 | false |
4 | Feminist-Centered Plot Introduces Author’s New Detective | FALL OF ANGELS (AN INSPECTOR REDFYRE MYSTERY) introduces Barbara Cleverly’s new detective, John Redfyre. He’s sort of a cross between Inspector Lynley and Inspector Morse, because he’s a well-connected, educated policeman assigned to a university town (Cambridge). Redfyre is unique, though, because his series is set ... | [] | 1616958766 | 1616958766 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,525,646,958,597 | 3 | false |
3 | Unlikeable “Girl Reporter” Investigates Jockey’s Murder in 1962 Saratoga Springs Area | A STONE’S THROW: AN ELLIE STONE MYSTERY is a competently written mystery/thriller—your basic PI procedural. The PI is “girl reporter” Ellie Stone, a surprisingly thin-skinned Jewish lass (she’s outraged by fairly mild anti-Semitic jokes, and disapproving of any and all bad language). Her thin skin is surprising, beca... | [] | 1633884198 | 1633884198 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,525,629,376,867 | 2 | false |
4 | Pleasant, Beautifully Illustrated Picture Book About Crafting Experience | WITH MY HANDS: POEMS ABOUT MAKING THINGS is a pleasant, beautifully illustrated children’s picture book. It has short poems about “making” and “being a maker”, as well as about individual crafts (e.g., soap carving, building a cardboard spaceship, origami, baking cookies, etc.). The poems emphasize making things th... | [] | 0544313402 | 0544313402 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,524,601,483,127 | 1 | false |
5 | Technology That Lets You Travel Between Alternate Universes | I don’t completely understand SIDE LIFE, but what a ride! Imagine a technology that transports you to an alternate universe (one of an infinite number), and drops you into the mind of someone facing an emotional crisis (e.g., Churchill planning the Gallipoli campaign). You experience that world first-hand, then autom... | [] | 1616958898 | 1616958898 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,523,819,762,725 | 10 | false |
3 | Readable Narrative Woven From Archival Records of Contracts, Financial Transactions | THE QUEEN’S EMBROIDERER: A TRUE STORY OF PARIS, LOVERS, SWINDLERS, AND THE FIRST STOCK MARKET is a remarkable accomplishment: a readable narrative woven from myriad archival records of financial transactions and contracts executed in France between 1604 and 1790. It’s a chronicle of the rise and fall of two money-gra... | [] | 1632864746 | 1632864746 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,523,737,738,688 | 3 | false |
5 | Excellent Mystery/Thriller Introduces Pastor Tommy Bosco | CLEAN SWEEP: A CRIME NOVEL is a superb debut mystery/thriller—who’d have thought that an award-winning Canadian automobile journalist would have such a talent for fiction? The novel isn’t really a page-turner, but it’s entertaining and engrossing, and it has a rip-roaring ending. The characters are well-developed and... | [] | 1770413979 | 1770413979 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,521,606,597,144 | 0 | false |
4 | Investigation Into Disappearance of Priceless But Cursed Goya Painting | THE BLACK PAINTING: A NOVEL has one very intriguing plot element: a privately owned Goya painting (a self-portrait from the artist’s “Black Paintings” of 1819–1823), that is rumored to cause madness or death upon viewing. (The painting is fictional.) For those familiar with Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son” (from tha... | [] | 1335953817 | 1335953817 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,521,504,255,465 | 1 | false |
5 | Excellent High School Mathematics Teaching Tool | THE COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS COMPANION:THE STANDARDS DECODED, HIGH SCHOOL: WHAT THEY SAY, WHAT THEY MEAN, HOW TO TEACH THEM (Corwin Mathematics Series) is a truly excellent high school math teacher’s tool. Although I’m not a teacher (and my algebra is rusty), this book makes me feel that I could teach high school math ... | [] | 1506332269 | 1506332269 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,521,342,468,790 | 3 | false |
5 | Slipcased, Profusely Illustrated, But Skims Surface of Topic | Like many DK books, WORLD HISTORY: FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO THE INFORMATION AGE is a slipcased factoid picture book. It’s NOT a wordy, dry-as-dust, history book; but it skims very lightly over the surface of the topic of world history.<br /><br />The book’s approach is to summarize major civilizations, eras, historic... | [] | 1465462406 | 1465462406 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,521,247,816,108 | 2 | false |
5 | Excellent LSAT Test Prep (Using Real LSAT Questions, Extra Online Videos) | Just looking at sample LSAT questions can be extremely discouraging, but if you want to go to a good law school, you need an excellent score on the exam. You need to prepare as rigorously for the LSAT as for your future State Bar Exam. This book, LSAT UNLOCKED 2018-2019: PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR EVERY QUESTION TYPE + ON... | [] | 1506225594 | 1506225594 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,521,244,779,589 | 3 | false |
5 | Readable Account of How Darwin Interpreted Fossils Collected During Famous Voyage | DARWIN’S FOSSILS: THE COLLECTION THAT SHAPED THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION is an extremely readable, entertaining account of how Darwin discovered, collected, and interpreted the fossils he shipped back to England during the 5-year voyage of the BEAGLE. Many of the creatures that produced the fossils were previously unknow... | [] | 158834617X | 158834617X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,521,076,514,899 | 4 | false |
5 | Another Excellent Page-Turner Featuring Claustrophobic Ex-Marine Peter Ash | LIGHT IT UP (A PETER ASH NOVEL) is the third book in this excellent action thriller series (starting with [[ASIN:0735215200 The Drifter]]). Peter is a one-man army, but he’s no Rambo. He’s a former Marine, home from Afghanistan and Iraq, with PTSD so severe, he can’t stay indoors for more than a few hours at a stretc... | [] | 0399575634 | 0399575634 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,520,969,542,011 | 0 | false |
5 | Holmes’ Last Adventure—Into Quantum Mechanics | It isn’t often that I like novels based on classic literary characters or works (usually Sherlock Holmes or Jane Austen). It’s such a shortcut, for a writer to skip imagining and developing his/her own characters or settings. But I really liked HOLMES ENTANGLED, because the plot is so imaginative and engrossing.<br /... | [] | 1633882071 | 1633882071 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,520,901,473,525 | 6 | false |
2 | Fails to Sell Reader on Bizarre Plot Premise | I liked author Julia Heaberlin’s previous novel, [[ASIN:0804178011 Black-Eyed Susans]], a lot, but didn’t care at all for PAPER GHOSTS: A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE. The basic premise—a young woman locates her sister’s probable killer, who is suffering from dementia, and obtains his release from a care home for a 10-day, 2-pers... | [] | 080417802X | 080417802X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,520,869,096,229 | 6 | false |
5 | Good Trivia Reference, Because of Excellent Index | Because I haven’t yet seen the latest “Star Wars” movie, I wanted this book, STAR WARS: ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW, UPDATED AND EXPANDED (Journey to Star Wars: the Last Jedi), to get up to speed with popular culture. Well, the “cartoon graphic factoid” format doesn’t help me with the movie plots and overal... | [
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2 | Pedestrian Thriller About Long-Hidden Secrets of WW II | THE HONORABLE TRAITORS (A THOMAS LAKER THRILLER) is a stock mass-market thriller. It is so pedestrian, you need to read it in a single session—because if you put it down, you won’t want to bother to pick it up again. The writing is fine, but everything about it is boring and predictable.<br /><br />In the novel, a Gr... | [] | 0786040939 | 0786040939 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,520,217,401,436 | 0 | false |
2 | Esoteric Background/Setting Places Heavy Burden on Reader | The esoteric background and setting of THE WIDOWS OF MALABAR HILL—a novel about a Zoroastrian (Persian) family law firm that represents traditional Muslims practicing polygyny (multiple wives) and purdah (seclusion of women in their homes, behind the veil) in 1921 Bombay, India—simply defeated me. It seemed like every ... | [] | 1616957786 | 1616957786 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,520,214,225,403 | 16 | false |
4 | Gardener’s Daily Calendar With Interesting Essays, Beautiful Garden Photos | A YEAR IN THE GARDEN: 365 INSPIRATIONAL GARDENS AND GARDENING TIPS is a gardener’s perpetual daily calendar (months and dates only, no days of the weeks or years) with beautiful full-color garden photos. It’s very heavy (4 lbs. 8.8 oz.) for such a small hardcover book (8” x 8”), and somewhat clumsy to handle.<br /><b... | [] | 3791384244 | 3791384244 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,520,134,832,103 | 0 | false |
3 | Modern Retelling of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” | When I ordered MACBETH (HOGARTH SHAKESPEARE)—which is described in the marketing material as “a heart-pounding new thriller”—I thought (silly me!) that “Hogarth Shakespeare” was the name of a character in a mystery/thriller series. Instead, Hogarth Shakespeare is a publishing project, launched in October 2015, that “s... | [] | 0553419056 | 0553419056 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,520,132,803,359 | 34 | false |
3 | Boring Mystery About Crime Reporter’s Investigation of Mother’s Murder | THE ECHO KILLING: A MYSTERY is a competently, professionally written private investigator mystery, but it’s just plain boring. Also, the basic premise, that two murders committed 15 years apart must be linked because the crime scenes are almost identical, is weak and unconvincing from the get go.<br /><br />In the nov... | [] | 1250148847 | 1250148847 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,520,020,590,531 | 2 | false |
4 | Weirdest “Historical” Mystery/Romance Ever Encountered | CADAVER & QUEEN is the weirdest historical mystery/romance that I’ve ever encountered. Set in Victorian England, it tells the story of a female student’s first year at a medical school renowned for its research and development into Bio-Mechanical soldiers. Bio-Mechanicals are re-animated cadavers, sometimes fitted wi... | [] | 1335470468 | 1335470468 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,519,958,018,299 | 3 | false |
5 | Santeria Priest Solves Murder of Cuban Cooking Blogger | Cooking blogger Yarmila Portal learned Cuban recipes from her strait-laced grandmother, who claimed they were the secret to keeping a man—because “love comes in through the kitchen”. Unfortunately for Yarmi, the recipes as repeated in her lighthearted blog (Yarmi Cooks Cuban) only led to DEATH COMES IN THROUGH THE KIT... | [] | 1616958847 | 1616958847 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,519,867,545,552 | 4 | false |
1 | Pointless, Depressing, Fantastical Suspense Novel | RATTLE is among the most pointless and depressing mystery/thriller/suspense novels that I’ve ever read. The killer, a hospital worker, is a collector of human bones and skeletons that exhibit rare deformities (particularly fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva). He takes special delight in dissecting his specimens, a... | [] | 0786042583 | 0786042583 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,519,863,240,528 | 6 | false |
2 | Sudden Ending Spoils Otherwise Terrific “Darko Dawson” Mystery | Until the final few pages, DEATH BY HIS GRACE (A DARKO DAWSON MYSTERY) is a terrific police procedural—a fast-reading, page-turner of a novel with an interesting plot and strong characterization. Like the previous series books, it is set in Ghana (though the setting is rather incidental to the story this time).<br /><... | [] | 1616957085 | 1616957085 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,518,906,658,068 | 5 | false |
2 | Pure Extreme-Feminist Fantasy | Vigilante justice is seldom admirable, and I really dislike the “Sisterhood” vigilantes. NEED TO KNOW is like “The First Wives Club” (which I happen to love) on steroids. The sisters have a dark viciousness about them—laughing and giggling about all the bad things they are going to do to their chosen target—that canc... | [] | 1420140698 | 1420140698 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,518,121,613,602 | 0 | false |
3 | Disappointing Gourmet Chocolate Series Is Continuation of “Home Repair Is Homicide” Series | DEATH BY CHOCOLATE CHERRY CHEESECAKE (A DEATH BY CHOCOLATE MYSTERY) isn’t really the first novel in a new series. Instead, it’s a continuation of the author’s “Home Repair Is Homicide” series—same Eastport, Maine setting, same characters. The difference is that Jacobia and Ellie have opened a chocolate-specialties ba... | [] | 1496711289 | 1496711289 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,516,909,146,829 | 4 | false |
5 | Unforgettable Novel About Powerful Natural, Supernatural Forces | FROM AWAY is one heck of a fine ghost story. It’s also a “coming of age” story, and generally I don’t care for these. But this novel has a unique twist—it’s the story of how an aimless young video store clerk discovers his true calling as a Medium between this world and the next. It’s also a hard-to-put-down story a... | [] | 1945551100 | 1945551100 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,516,586,710,101 | 2 | false |
5 | Highly Entertaining Road Novel, Filled With Memorable Oddball Characters | LULLABY ROAD: A NOVEL is set in the middle in the middle of nowhere—along remote Highway 17 in Utah’s high desert. It’s a mystery novel that tells the story of independent trucker Ben Jones’ back-and-forth highway trips, as he hauls water and other essentials to the colorful, oddball desert folk living in the area’s ne... | [] | 1101906545 | 1101906545 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,516,324,264,246 | 0 | false |
4 | Read It for Weird Characters, Priceless Jabs at Corporate Culture | THE PERPETUAL SUMMER (A CHUCK RESTIC MYSTERY) isn’t as consistently funny as the first series novel ([[ASIN:1945551046 The Silent Second]]), but it still has a lot of weird characters, and many more hilarious jabs at corporate culture and silly “MBA-speak”. Amateur detective Chuck’s account of his strategic interviewi... | [] | 1945551127 | 1945551127 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,516,044,771,105 | 1 | false |
4 | Memorable Portrait of Grim, Dystopian, Near-Future San Francisco | THE NIGHT MARKET is memorable for its portrait of a grim, dystopian, near-future San Francisco, where it rains all the time due to climate change, and decaying buildings everywhere are being dismantled by desperate kids seeking copper and bricks to sell.<br /><br />As in the other two novels in Jonathan Moore’s loosely... | [] | 0544671899 | 0544671899 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,514,924,368,253 | 2 | false |
2 | Introduces Preach Everson—Another Damaged Cop | WRITTEN IN BLOOD introduces Joe “Preach” Everson, a damaged cop tasked with solving a series of murders staged like famous literary murders (Dostoevsky, Poe, Christie, Nabokov). That’s two current mystery/thriller cliches out of the way! Everson is probably healed by the end, but he isn’t all that interesting while d... | [] | 1633883612 | 1633883612 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,514,227,362,577 | 7 | false |
4 | Orphan X Avenges Murder of Trainer Jack | HELLBENT: AN ORPHAN X NOVEL is the third entry in the Evan Smoak series (the first is [[ASIN:1250067847 Orphan X]]). It works reasonably well as a standalone, but it’s best to start the series at the beginning. The concept is all too believable—Smoak is Orphan X, one of a group of orphaned children who were recruit... | [] | 1250119170 | 1250119170 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,513,437,734,424 | 4 | false |
2 | Misleading “Historical Thriller” Subtitle Is a Mystery | It’s a mystery, why THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ADELE BEDEAU is subtitled “A Historical Thriller”. It’s NOT historical (unless you consider a novel first published in 1982 to be “historical”), and it’s NOT a thriller (it’s slow-moving and extremely boring). It’s not even an “unreliable narrator” mystery, because the narrato... | [] | 1510723099 | 1510723099 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,511,280,746,181 | 8 | false |
4 | Amusing Biography Focuses on Twain’s Drive to Make Money | The world probably doesn’t need another biography of Mark Twain, but this one is well-written, apparently solidly researched, and humorous. The focus of this book, HOW NOT TO GET RICH: THE FINANCIAL MISADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN, is upon Twain’s lifelong obsession with money and the accumulation of lots of it. Luckily ... | [] | 0544836464 | 0544836464 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,510,612,463,204 | 0 | false |
3 | Peculiar Crimes Unit Investigates Series of Murders in London’s Parks | The “Peculiar Crimes Unit” mysteries work as standalones, but they’re kind of an acquired taste, because of the unusual methods of the octogenarian detectives (Bryant and May). While the Unit itself is kind of peculiar (staff and office always in disarray), the Unit is actually named for its mission—to investigate cr... | [] | 1101887060 | 1101887060 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,510,601,304,546 | 6 | false |
3 | Great Concept, Poorly Executed | RETROGRADE has a great concept, but it’s poorly executed. The concept: The international (U.S., China, Russia, Eurasia) colony on Mars is prepared for absolutely everything that can go wrong on Mars, but is totally unprepared for anything to go wrong on Earth. So when nuclear war breaks out, with no one knowing who ... | [] | 1328834557 | 1328834557 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,508,121,041,162 | 5 | false |
5 | Advanced Projects for Making Things “Talk” to Other Things Over Networks | MAKING THINGS TALK: USING SENSORS, NETWORKS, AND ARDUINO TO SEE, HEAR, AND FEEL YOUR WORLD is one of those books that make me wish for unlimited hobby time. It has so many projects that I’d like to try—from the Catcam to the physical object locators to the NFC two-factor authentication.<br /><br />But this is a book f... | [] | 1680452150 | 1680452150 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,508,102,372,080 | 6 | false |
2 | Literary Mystery Focuses on Five Unlikeable Characters | If you like literary mysteries that focus on characterization, rather than on the step-by-step solving of a murder, then you may enjoy A WELCOME MURDER. However, this novel just isn’t my type of mystery-thriller.<br /><br />The murder victim (Rayce) is a despicable person whose death is welcomed by all who knew him. ... | [] | 1633882632 | 1633882632 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,507,492,207,477 | 0 | false |
5 | Engrossing Story Unfolds Against Background of Bangkok’s Freewheeling Ladyboy Bar Scene | I’m a big fan of Timothy Hallinan’s comic mysteries (e.g., [[ASIN:B0120AUB3I King Maybe]]); and this mystery, FOOL’S RIVER (A POKE RAFFERTY NOVEL), has totally sold me on the author’s “Poke Rafferty” series. The unfamiliar Bangkok setting and Thai characters were a little off-putting at first, but the complex, engross... | [] | 1616957506 | 1616957506 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,507,487,504,931 | 0 | false |
4 | Psychic’s Visions Solve Serial Murders Occurring in Arizona Caves With Petroglyphs | DESERT REMAINS: A GUS PARKER AND ALEX MILLS NOVEL has some bumpy writing (not-quite-consistent viewpoints), and a muddled, slightly disappointing ending, but overall it’s a page-turner of a mystery/thriller. Parker (a psychic who’s the real deal) and Mills (a veteran homicide detective nearing burnout) make an effecti... | [] | 1633883531 | 1633883531 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,507,398,213,305 | 0 | false |
2 | Female Detective Shares Innermost Thoughts in Far Too Much Detail | A SEASON TO LIE: A DETECTIVE GEMMA MONROE MYSTERY reads more like a romance than a mystery. The detective (Gemma) is a new mother--breastfeeding, of course--who must interrupt her active crime-scene investigations because her breasts are throbbing (it's time “to pump”).<br /><br />Gemma is also a highly insecure femal... | [] | 1250089417 | 1250089417 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,506,960,341,430 | 10 | false |
5 | On-the-Run Hitman Becomes Pretty Good Rabbi | GANGSTER NATION isn't particularly funny, but it's entertaining and well-plotted, with a surprise ending that made me think of Vic’s fate in the TV series, “The Shield”. It really couldn't end any other way, could it?<br /><br />In the novel, gangster-hitman-on-the-run Sal Cupertine has assumed the role of a Las Vegas... | [] | 1619027232 | 1619027232 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,506,889,745,428 | 0 | false |
4 | Very Good Job for First Mystery/Thriller Novel | For a first mystery/thriller novel, RAGGED LAKE: A FRANK YAKABUSKI MYSTERY is a heck of a good job. It bogs down a little in the victim's journal (flashback) sections, but is otherwise a fast-moving story with interesting plot twists. It’s refreshing to encounter a seasoned investigator (Yakabuski) who actually make... | [] | 1770413944 | 1770413944 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,506,880,253,702 | 0 | false |
3 | Readable “As-Told-To” Confessional About Doping in Professional Cycling | DESCENT: MY EPIC FALL FROM CYCLING SUPERSTARDOM TO DOPING DEAD END is an “as told to” confessional--unlike many of these, it's not overly self-serving, and it's a decent, fast read. Former superstar cyclist Thomas Dekker takes responsibility for his illicit use of Dynepo and blood-doping, and doesn't whine “why me?” o... | [] | 1937715809 | 1937715809 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,506,015,971,394 | 0 | false |
5 | Entertaining, Thought-Provoking “Police Procedural” Set on Earth After “the Fall” | BANNERLESS (THE BANNERLESS SAGA) is an entertaining “police procedural” set on a future Earth where civilization as we know it has collapsed under its own weight.<br /><br />In the novel, a worldwide plague killed so many people, there weren't enough left to sustain the existing national and local infrastructures (e.g.... | [] | 0544947304 | 0544947304 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,505,776,669,133 | 0 | false |
3 | Literary Novel by Author of Wallander Mysteries | AFTER THE FIRE is Henning Mankell’s last novel (he passed away on 10/05/2015). It's a well-written literary effort, written in the first person, featuring a 70-year-old retired surgeon whose settled life is turned upside down by a fire. It's an arson fire that he barely escapes from alive; it totally destroys the hom... | [] | 0525435085 | 0525435085 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,505,758,005,615 | 1 | false |
5 | Thought-Provoking Stories, Rich in Detail, Full of Twists | MACHINE LEARNING: NEW AND COLLECTED STORIES was my introduction to the fiction of Hugh Howey, author of the best-selling science fiction novel [[ASIN:1476733953953 Wool]], and I was simply blown away. The stories are thought-provoking in the extreme, rich in other-worldly detail, and full of surprise twists.<br /><br ... | [] | 1328767523 | 1328767523 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,505,268,571,954 | 30 | false |
3 | Art Expert Seeks Priceless Titian, Engages in Thuggy Budapest Intrigue | The fictional heroine (Helena) of the THE APPRAISAL is an art expert, a master of disguises, a burglar, and a dangerous martial-arts-trained killer. But what else would you expect from the daughter of a skillful painter of fake “Old Masters” and easy-to-fake Corots?<br /><br />In the novel, Helena is hired to buy a pr... | [] | 177041410X | 177041410X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,505,084,573,471 | 3 | false |
4 | Search for Father of Harte’s Friend’s Daughter--Plus Murders--in Inbred Maine Town | This is the third Audrey Harte mystery (the first is [[ASIN:0316302503 It takes One]]). It works fine as a standalone, with just the right amount of teaser backstory that doesn't give away the earlier plots. Harte is certainly an oddball heroine--a licensed psychologist specializing in troubled teenagers, who is also... | [] | 0316302554 | 0316302554 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,505,069,959,258 | 0 | false |
3 | Well-Written Novel About CIA Analyst and Russian “Sleeper” Spy | The well-done FX television series, “The Americans”, does a terrific job of humanizing a murderous Russian “sleeper” spy couple, so it's hardly surprising that novels about Russian sleeper-cell spies have begun to arrive. NEED TO KNOW: A NOVEL is so well written, it is probably among the best of these.<br /><br />Howe... | [] | 1524797022 | 1524797022 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,504,910,051,528 | 12 | false |
5 | Superb Analysis, Explanations of LSAT PrepTests 62-71 | To get into a top law school, you need an excellent LSAT score, and that won't happen unless you study and thoroughly prepare for the exam. To do well on the LSAT, you need to be able to handle the material, but you also must be an expert at analyzing and recognizing types of multiple choice questions, so that you can... | [] | 1506223435 | 1506223435 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,504,059,161,013 | 4 | false |
5 | Familiar Opening Premise Quickly Changes to Something Extraordinary | FINAL TARGET (A JONATHAN GRAVE THRILLER) is a thriller that opens with a familiar premise--a U.S. black ops team finds out, mid-operation, that it’s been sold out, so that survival going forward depends on quick thinking, military training and weaponry, and a lot of luck. But this thriller quickly becomes something tr... | [] | 0786039787 | 0786039787 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,503,965,295,584 | 0 | false |
5 | Edgar and Max Investigate Anarchist Plot to Disrupt 1953 Coronation | THE BLOOD CARD is the third “Magic Men” mystery (the first is [[ASIN:0544811879 The Zig Zag Girl]]. Like the others, it is a police procedural with a complex and twisty, yet believable, plot. It works fine as a standalone. The “Magic Men” characters are mostly magicians and other performers, all of whom served durin... | [] | 0544750306 | 0544750306 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,503,962,554,755 | 1 | false |
5 | Everything You Need to Know About Caring for Indoor Plants | HOW NOT TO KILL YOUR HOUSEPLANT: SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE HORTICULTURALLY CHALLENGED is one of the best plant care books that I've come across. All of the instructions are extremely concise--exactly what busy people need. The basic selection, potting, and watering instructions are truly excellent.<br /><br />Better yet... | [] | 1465463305 | 1465463305 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,503,765,977,282 | 1 | false |
3 | Grisly Murder of Ethnic Hungarian in Victorian England | AN ECHO OF MURDER: A WILLIAM MONK NOVEL is the 23rd entry in the William Monk series. It's slow-moving in the extreme, filled early on with Commander Monk’s ruminations about pure hate as the likely motive for the grisly murder of a bayoneted Hungarian businessman. The presence of 17 candles at the dreadful murder sce... | [] | 0425285014 | 0425285014 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,503,501,154,334 | 0 | false |
5 | Beautiful “Coffee Table” Book Is Advanced Photography Reference Book | FOCUS IN PHOTOGRAPHY: MASTER THE ADVANCED TECHNIQUES THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY FOREVER is a gorgeous “coffee table” book that is also an advanced photography reference book.<br /><br />It explains how focus works in simple language that is accompanied by diagrams, in a way that even an amateur digital “point an... | [
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3 | Hugo Investigates Murders Relating to Spy Camera in Romance Writer’s Paris Hotel Room | THE SORBONNE AFFAIR: A HUGO MARSTON NOVEL is the 7th police procedural novel featuring former FBI profiler Hugo Marston, who is currently the head of security for the U.S. Embassy in Paris. It's extremely slow-moving, despite the added subplot that perhaps explains why Hugo (and his best friend Tom Green) left the FB... | [] | 1633882616 | 1633882616 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,503,337,782,463 | 1 | false |
5 | Suspense Novel About Safecracking, With Moving Love Story | SAFE: A NOVEL is a suspense novel with a moving love story (but it’s happily devoid of gratuitous sex scenes or cheap romantic sentiment). Two main characters (Ricky, an expert DEA safecracker; and Glasses, a murderous crime boss’ top lieutenant) tell their intersecting stories in first person narrative, in alternatin... | [] | 0374253374 | 0374253374 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,503,277,144,612 | 0 | false |
5 | Activity Book Brought Up to Date With Contemporary Facts | The BIG BOOK OF WHY ACTIVITY BOOK (A TIME For Kids Book) is exactly the sort of activity book that I loved as a kid--and still enjoy reading through. This one has lots of facts sprinkled in among a variety of easy puzzles (connect the dots, crosswords, copy the drawing, fill in words to finish the story, etc.).<br /><... | [
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4 | Stultifying Island Atmosphere Plays Role in Ill-Conceived Burglary Scheme That Leads to Disaster | BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS: A NOVEL is a literary mystery/thriller, which is a genre that I generally don't care for. However, the novel does a superb job of capturing the suffocating, claustrophobic, heat-infused atmosphere of a small Greek island (Hydra) during the summertime. In a way, the island itself can be blamed for t... | [] | 0553447378 | 0553447378 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,501,175,595,073 | 6 | false |
4 | Entertaining Mystery Based on Mortgage Fraud, Idiotic Corporate Rules | Who would have thought that a mystery based on mortgage fraud and idiotic corporate rules would be interesting and fun to read? Yet that's what happens with THE SILENT SECOND: A CHUCK RESTIC MYSTERY.<br /><br />In the novel, human resources manager Chuck Restic has established himself in a safe, upper-corporate-manage... | [] | 1945551046 | 1945551046 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,501,025,808,786 | 0 | false |
3 | Decent Literary Suspense Effort by Laurie R. King | LOCKDOWN: A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE is by Laurie R. King, and she's such a good writer, you can't ever go too far wrong with one of her novels. However, the problem with LOCKDOWN is that it isn't particularly suspenseful. It's the story of a disadvantaged middle school’s “Career Day” event that ends in a shootout and a scho... | [] | 0804177937 | 0804177937 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,500,856,165,440 | 0 | false |
4 | Psychic Former Spy John Smith Returns, Investigating Dangerous “Downvote” Software | FLASHMOB: A NOVEL is the second entry in the “John Smith” series about a former CIA spy who reads minds. Well, not exactly. He “hears” other people's thoughts--the thoughts of everyone around him, from stressed-out nannies to politicians to arms dealers--and it's a burden, not a gift. Just listening in gives JS head... | [] | 0062568493 | 0062568493 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,500,326,882,430 | 1 | false |
2 | Portrays Woman Trapped in Abusive Marriage | THE WALLS is a rather slow-moving novel about a severely abused wife's inner turmoil regarding staying with her husband (if she leaves, will he carry out his threats to her teenage son and elderly father?), and plotting her ultimate escape (can she use her prison-insider knowledge to plot a murder, and get away with it... | [] | 0316268763 | 0316268763 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,500,305,088,871 | 0 | false |
5 | Roe’s Obsessed With New Baby, But Can't Ignore Dead Body in Her Backyard | In SLEEP LIKE A BABY: AN AURORA TEAGARDEN MYSTERY, Roe is a brand-new mother who is totally caught up in baby care and breastfeeding. Normally I dislike cozy mysteries where the heroine is obsessing over how important her children are to her, but author Charlaine Harris is such a pro, I loved this fast-reading novel, ... | [] | 1250090067 | 1250090067 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,500,259,414,671 | 5 | false |
4 | Fast-Moving PI Novel Inspired by Abu Ghraib Revelations | THE ROOM OF WHITE FIRE is a somewhat brutal and shocking, fast-reading PI procedural that is obviously inspired by accounts of the “interrogation” techniques (e.g., waterboarding) used by the CIA and the U.S. Army at Abu Ghraib Prison during the war in Iraq. These techniques were presumably based on the psychological ... | [] | 073521266X | 073521266X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,499,623,670,170 | 2 | false |
5 | Causes of Middle East Conflict in a Nutshell | FRACTURED LANDS: HOW THE ARAB WORLD CAME APART is a slender, highly readable volume that will bring you up to speed, as painlessly as possible, on the causes of the current turmoil in the Middle East (civil war in Syria, ISIS fighting in Iraq, etc.). But It’s still painful to read, as it tells the stories of individu... | [] | 0525434437 | 0525434437 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,499,615,491,740 | 1 | false |
5 | Humorous Crime Caper Novel Has All the Right Stuff | THE DOWNSIDE is a crime caper novel with all the right stuff: an impossible-to-access, heavily guarded, electronically monitored vault; a ragtag heist team with awesome excavation and building-trades skills; a likeable, “honorable” chief thief; conspiracies and double-crosses; and humorous, unexpected plot twists. As ... | [] | 1504044614 | 1504044614 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,499,355,313,175 | 0 | false |
3 | Maggie Seeks to Learn Fate of Compromised SOE Spy | THE PARIS SPY: A MAGGIE HOPE MYSTERY finds Maggie in WWII occupied Paris, seeking to learn the fate of a Special Operations Executive (SOE) spy who stopped including security checks in her transmissions to England. The 7th “Maggie Hope” novel, this one continues from where [[ASIN:0804178720 The Queen’s Accomplice]] le... | [] | 0399593802 | 0399593802 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,499,264,702,342 | 5 | false |
5 | Useful Pictorial Reference That Explains Why Certain Foods Are Healthy | I love popular reference books, like SUPER CLEAN SUPER FOODS, which have photos, drawings, factoids, recipes, and descriptions of specific foods (e.g., quinoa, cashews, peas, moringa powder). In this book, each 2-page layout for a supposedly-healthy-to-eat food is “eye candy” for the food lover in me.<br /><br />I als... | [] | 1465456295 | 1465456295 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,498,591,309,745 | 0 | false |
2 | Patronizing, Overly Wordy Textbook With Decent Flow Charts | INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION LITERACY FOR STUDENTS is a textbook for computer research courses. It has decent flowcharts that describe the basic concepts of Internet and library research. However, the text is incredibly wordy, and it talks down to the reader (especially true if the text is intended for college students... | [] | 1119054753 | 1119054753 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,498,582,383,135 | 2 | false |
5 | Activity Book With 70 Puzzles To Help Prepare Kids for 3rd Grade | When I was in grade school, I enjoyed Scholastic’s WEEKLY READER, except that the teacher’s hated pop quizzes took much of the learning pleasure away. This WEEKLY READER: SUMMER EXPRESS (Between Grades 2 & 3) workbook shows that the Scholastic folks haven't lost their touch. It's filled with a lot of interesting puzz... | [] | 1338108913 | 1338108913 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,495,913,390,000 | 3 | false |
3 | Impossibly Cluttered Plot; Highly Disorganized Female Investigator | MURDER IN SAINT-GERMAIN is my first “Aimee Leduc” novel, and I suspect that it's NOT among the best in this long-running series. (It's the 17th “Aimee Leduc Investigation”; the first is [[ASIN:1616957301 Murder in the Marais]].) Aimee comes across as a dismayingly disorganized private investigator (surely she's not ju... | [] | 1616957700 | 1616957700 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,495,896,683,000 | 3 | false |
2 | Disjointed, Obscure Storytelling; Depressing Central Character | I really enjoyed [[ASIN:B00LYXED0A The Honest Folk of Guadaloupe]] by this author, in which the story was told from multiple viewpoints, with flashbacks, and had to be pieced together by the reader. The description of Guadaloupe itself and its political/judicial system was beautifully done, and was part of the novel's ... | [] | 1616957204 | 1616957204 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,495,057,659,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Uninspired Reworking of Agatha Christie’s Famous Plot Concept | TEN DEAD COMEDIANS: A MURDER MYSTERY is a reworking of Agatha Christie’s very famous murder mystery, [[ASIN:0671552228 TEN LITTLE INDIANS (aka AND THEN THERE WERE NONE)]]. Ten comedians (some still actively performing, some wealthy, some retired, some washed up) are invited to a Caribbean island by a famous comedian, ... | [] | 1594749744 | 1594749744 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,494,877,305,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Disquieting Blueprint for Stealing U.S. Presidential Election | Originally published in 1980, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JANUARY provides a detailed blueprint for a foreign power’s successful intervention in a U.S. Presidential election. Back then, the story surely seemed plausible, but probably somewhat farfetched. Fast forward to 2017, and the novel is disquieting to read, as it illu... | [] | 0486819221 | 0486819221 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,494,258,248,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Girl on Run From Two Assassins in Glittery Hollywood-Between-the-Wars | THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH is an enjoyable mystery/romance with “lite” sex scenes that advance the plot without taking it over. The main characters (secretary and girl reporter Anna/Irene; retired magician and hotel owner Oliver) are strong and likeable, so that the reader really hopes the two will get together at the... | [] | 0399174478 | 0399174478 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,492,272,611,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Scholarly Analysis of External Factors That Contributed to Austen's Popularity | THE MAKING OF JANE AUSTEN is a rather tedious academic analysis of the external factors (book illustrations and illustrators, parlor dramatizations, stage performances, famous movies, biographies, close relatives’ activities) that supposedly transformed the spinster author into a literary icon. To my mind, it minimize... | [] | 1421422824 | 1421422824 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,492,267,631,000 | 6 | false |
4 | FBI Agents Investigate Serial Murders of Female Train Hoppers | THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS is the sixth “Stevens and Windermere” novel (the first is [[ASIN:B005GSZJ9I The Professionals]]), and it works fine as a standalone. It's inspired by the all-too-real Vancouver murders of some 49 “throwaway” women (mostly prostitutes and women of Native descent). It was known that women were vanish... | [] | 0399174559 | 0399174559 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,491,184,433,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Ugly Story of Heavy Drinking, Clandestine Liaisons, “Friends” With Murderous Intent | CRUEL IS THE NIGHT tells an ugly story. Two couples, presumably old friends, meet in an apartment in London’s fabulous Shard skyscraper, but one husband arrives with a packet of strychnine intended for the other. In the course of a single evening, all four unfaithful spouses drink heavily, engage in clandestine liais... | [] | 161695681X | 161695681X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,491,177,358,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Routine Police Procedural Spends Too Much Time on Medical Issues | Early in THE DYING DETECTIVE: A MYSTERY, the detective (Johansson) has a stroke. The novel gets the stroke symptoms, rehab, and treatment right, but this material fills far too much of the book. And it's depressing to read about a main character who is supposedly dying, even though it's the man’s lifestyle (and result... | [] | 0307907635 | 0307907635 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,491,165,145,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Mystery Series for Wine Connoisseurs (and Everyone Else) | If you're a wine connoisseur, the “Verlaque and Bonnet” mystery series has an extra bonus, because of the name-dropping of all the vintage wines enjoyed by the sophisticated Aix-en-Provence investigators. If you're not a wine connoisseur (I’m certainly not!), there's still a lot to like about this pleasant, well-plott... | [] | 0143110942 | 0143110942 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,491,005,213,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Richly Descriptive Literary Novel About Veterans With PTSD | THE STANDARD GRAND: A NOVEL is an impressive example of what I see as moderately “experimental” fiction. There is a story, but the vivid, descriptive words just pile up, and pile up, until the reader is nearly exhausted by the weight of all the language. The prose makes me think of Proust or Joyce--it's actually too... | [] | 1250108942 | 1250108942 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,490,998,120,000 | 2 | false |
5 | New Head of Special Branch Investigates Suspicious Death of Queen Victoria’s Close Friend | MURDER ON THE SERPENTINE is the 32nd (!) Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel, and the last before a new generation of Pitts takes over the series. It's my first Anne Perry novel, and now I know what I’ve been missing. This novel works fine as a standalone, but I’ll be going back to the beginning ([[ASIN:0345513568 The Ca... | [] | 0425284980 | 0425284980 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,490,978,458,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Cozy Mystery That's Hard to Love | CRUEL WINTER: A COUNTY CORK MYSTERY is a cozy mystery that's hard to love. The plot is so thin, there's hardly any story at all. A group of people are snowed in at a pub, and, for entertainment, they attempt to solve a notorious cold case. It's a local murder--a woman, wearing nightclothes and laced-up boots, was f... | [] | 1683311000 | 1683311000 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,489,634,966,000 | 4 | false |
5 | FBI's Child Pornography Prosecution as Seen From Perspective of Federal Judge Presiding Over Defendant's Trial | THE ONE-EYED JUDGE: A NOVEL is the second entry in this unusual legal procedural series, which ls written from the perspective of a federal criminal judge who is hearing the fictional cases in the books. (The first novel is [[ASIN:1480441945 The Hanging Judge]], but so far the series novels work as standalones.) The ... | [] | 1504035259 | 1504035259 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,489,536,746,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Narrator Plays Watson to His Detective Fiancee's Holmes | In MY DARLING DETECTIVE, a literary mystery set in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the narrator (Jacob) plays a sort of Doctor Watson to the Sherlock Holmes of his detective fiancee (Martha). The mystery is why Jacob's mother (Nora) escaped from a mental health institution, solely to attend an auction of valuable historical pho... | [] | 0544236106 | 0544236106 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,489,524,706,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Historical Mystery Inspired by Flamboyant 19th-Century French Chef | Inspired by the life of a great French chef (Alexis Soyer), THE DEVIL'S FEAST (A Blake and Avery Novel) is an excellent historical mystery. The fictional Chef Alexis Soyer is a highly memorable character, and apparently his flamboyant persona closely resembles that of the real Chef Soyer. The book includes a lot of f... | [] | 039917169X | 039917169X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,489,454,627,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Collection of Adorable, Simple-to-Crochet, "Literary" Dolls | LITERARY YARNS: CROCHET PROJECTS INSPIRED BY CLASSIC BOOKS is a cute collection of simple-to-make crocheted dolls. Designer Cindy Wang is very imaginative in using alterations in accessories, yarn colors, and hair styles to make the little dolls all look different, even though they're mostly variations on one basic sh... | [
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5 | Pure Caper Novel With Memorable Thief, Con Man; Many Unexpected Plot Twists | ROCKS BEAT PAPER: A WILSON NOVEL is purely a caper novel--Wilson is after a fortune in uncut diamonds and diamond jewelry stored in a location with all-but-impossible-to-breach security. The plot starts slowly (too much detailed description of the security measures), but if you stick around, it moves fast and has many... | [] | 1770411011 | 1770411011 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,488,743,211,000 | 0 | false |
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