Grafton, Sue. “J” Is for Judgment (1993) Fawcett Crest, 360 pages, $6.99 paperbackISBN 0 449 22148 2 A little over five years ago Wendell Jaffe disappeared from his sail boat, leaving behind a suicide note and a failed, fraudulent investment company. Jaffe also left behind a business partner who went to jail for fraud, a […]
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Karr, Mary. The Liars’ Club: A Memoir Viking, 1995Hardcover, 320 pagesISBN 0-670-85053 Recommended Poet Mary Karr grew up in an East Texas town, where her Daddy, like everyone else’s daddy, worked at the oil refinery. After work the men would congregate at the American Legion Bar and swap stories, a gathering that became known as the
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Woods, Stuart. Dead in the Water (1997) Harper Collins, 325 pages, $25.00 hardcover ISBN 0 06 018368 3 Stone Barrington arrives in St. Marks, a Caribbean island nation, where he has chartered a yacht for 10 days of sailing. You can look at this site to know where to buy all the supplies
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Cross, Amanda. In the Last Analysis (1964) rpt. Avon Books, 176 pages, $5.50 paperback ISBN 0-380-54510-1 Carolyn G. Heilbrun, the reality behind the pseudonym Amanda Cross, was a professor at Columbia University in New York City. In Cross’s Kate Fansler mysteries I hoped to find books with a bit more substance than many current
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Woods, Stuart. Dirt (1996) HarperCollins, 272 pages, $24.00 hardcover ISBN 0 06 017666 0 When fax machines all over the country begin receiving exposés about ruthless New York gossip columnist Amanda Dart, she hires Stone Barrington to find out who’s giving her a dose of her own medicine. Barrington is a former policeman, now
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Feminist critic and scholar Carolyn G. Heilbrun was a tenured professor of literature at Columbia University in New York City. She published mystery novels featuring heroine Kate Fansler under the pseudonym Amanda Cross. I originally read In the Last Analysis, the first Kate Fansler novel, because I had frequently heard this series described as “literate
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Woods, Stuart. Santa Fe Rules (1992) Harper Paperbacks, 332 pages, $5.99 paperback ISBN 0 06 109089 1 After leaving his Santa Fe home one morning to travel to his Hollywood home and workplace, film producer Wolf Willett is stunned to read his own obituary in The New York Times. He, his wife, and
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Westlake, Donald E. The Ax (1997) Mysterious Press, 273 pages, $23.00 hardcover ISBN 0 89296 587 8 Most of the serial killers we meet in modern fiction are tortured souls, abused as children or tormented by multiple personalities. But what if an otherwise ordinary man made a perfectly logical decision to become a
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Woods, Stuart. New York Dead (1991) HarperPaperbacks, 325 pages, $5.99 paperback ISBN 0-06-109080-8 Having read two other Stone Barrington novels (Dirt and Dead in the Water) previously, I decided to go back and be properly introduced to this character whom Stuart Woods can’t seem to let go. In New York Dead Stone Barrington
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Westlake, Donald E. Smoke (1995) Mysterious Press, 454 pages, $21.95 hardcover ISBN 0-89296-543-7 Freddie Noon is a twice-convicted thief in New York City. So when he’s caught by Dr. David Loomis and Dr. Peter Heimhocker stealing electronic equipment from their research facility, he decides that becoming their experimental subject is better than the
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