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Review: Hard Knocks

December 19, 2012 By Seeley James

Hard Knocks by Zoë Sharp – $3.99 E The phrase “cozy mystery” brings the image of my Aunt Mabel sipping tea by the fire on a rainy day while reading a mystery featuring a heroine of her age and gentleness. As you might have already guessed—I’ve never read a cozy mystery.* Zoë Sharp provides something […]

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Review: Beekeeper

November 14, 2012 By Seeley James

Beekeeper — by Juliet Moore $0.99 E / $6.99 PB A debut mystery written by a romance writer? Normally I would pass anything  remotely related to ‘romance’ (don’t scowl, I don’t read cookbooks or poetry either). But for some odd reason I was drawn to this book. Maybe I was secretly looking for a little […]

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Review: Riot Act

September 28, 2012 By Seeley James

Riot Act – by Zoë Sharp, $3.49 E Every book I read has a great endorsement by someone or other. Zoë Sharp’s first book, Killer Instinct, had a rousing Foreword by Lee Child. That caught my eye. Mr. Child reported that someone said, I love your books but Zoe Sharp is better. Interesting admission from […]

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Online Booksellers, You Owe Us Better

September 26, 2012 By Seeley James

This is an open letter to online booksellers. Endorse it with your name in the comments section. Dear Amazon, you owe us better book reviews. You too Barnes & Noble, Google, Goodreads and all the others who sell books/ads online. We understand and appreciate the whole thing about free speech, everyman voice, real user reviews […]

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Review: Wanted Man

September 22, 2012 By Seeley James

Wanted Man – by Lee Child, $27.95 HC / $13.99 E Creative writing professors have been stuck on James Joyce for too long. I think a hundred years of exaltation is plenty for a dead guy. Professors who want to be relevant in the 21st Century should start teaching Lee Child. Where Joyce challenged the […]

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