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Category: ‘Adult Lit

04 Aug, 2010

Review: Let the Dead Lie

Posted by: Susan In: Adult Lit

Bibliography: Nunn, Malla.  (2010).  Let the Dead Lie.  New York: Washington Square Press. ISBN: 978-1416586227
Plot Summary:  Disgraced and dismissed at the end of A Beautiful Place to Die, former Detective Sargeant Emmanuel Cooper is working on the docks of Durban trying to catch corrupt cops when he stumbles on the body of a murdered child.  [...]

19 Jul, 2010

Review: Sharp Objects

Posted by: Susan In: Adult Lit

Bibliography: Flynn, Gillian. (2006). Sharp Objects. New York: Crown Publishing Group.  ISBN: 978-0307341549
Plot Summary: With every fiber of her being protesting, newspaper reporter Camille Preaker returns home to Wind Gap, Missouri to get the scoop for her third rate newspaper on the kidnapping and murder of two little girls.  Not exactly the return of the [...]

14 Jul, 2010

Review: Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story

Posted by: Susan In: Adult Lit

Bibliography: Turgeon, Carolyn. (2009). Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story.  New York: Three Rivers Press.  ISBN: 978-0307407993
Plot Summary:  You just think you know the real Cinderella story.  What if the fairy chosen to be Cinderella’s godmother was not old but young?  What if she had sneaked into the palace and fallen for the prince herself?  What [...]

16 Jun, 2010

Review: Vision in White

Posted by: Susan In: Adult Lit

Bibliography: Roberts, Nora. (2009).  Vision in White. New York: Berkley Trade. ISBN: 978-0425227510.
Plot Summary: Mackensie loves shoes.  She loves her job, capturing special moments in people’s lives for the wedding business she runs with her lifetime best friends.  She really loves her best friends, who love her even when she’s not at her best.  She [...]

14 Jun, 2010

Review: Once a Spy

Posted by: Susan In: Adult Lit

Bibliography: Thomson, Keith. (2010). Once a Spy. New York: Doubleday. ISBN: 978-0385530781
Plot Summary:  When down on his luck  gambler Charlie brings his father Drummond home from the social agency that found him wandering the streets and his father’s apartment explodes, he starts to wonder if some of the old man’s mumblings about spies and covert [...]


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