Easy Mix Book Review
The Real Katie Lavender by Erica James If Erica James has carved out a niche for herself in the cluttered world of light romance fiction, it is one in which vile weather never descends, there is no...
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Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich ”I don’t feel so good,” Lula said. “It was that last doughnut. There was something wrong with it. It was one of them cream-filled, and I think they used old...
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The White Pearl by Kate Furnivall In 1941 Malaya, a local woman is hit by a car while walking, and dies at the scene. The driver is Constance Hadley, the British wife of a plantation owner and mother...
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Treasury by Maeve Binchy After the underwhelming experience that was Irish writer Maeve Binchy’s most recent new work, 2010’s Minding Frankie, I approached her latest, Treasury, with trepidation....
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The Bomber by Liza Marklund Some of her compatriots prefer roaming through vast tracts of anonymous countryside, with barns, shacks and empty garages serving their nefarious ends; others enjoy the...
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The Thread by Victoria Hislop The most shocking thing I, a grateful beneficiary of New Zealand’s social progressiveness, learned from The Thread was that it was not until 1952 that women in Greece...
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For a Fee of Two Shillings by Faye Whittaker It was her role as a court clerk after leaving school that lit the spark of what became Faye Whittaker’s debut novel, For a Fee of Two Shillings. There she...
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No One Left to Tell by Karen Rose In taking a workmanlike approach to her 13th thriller, No One Left to Tell, Karen Rose opts for the tried-and-true wrongful imprisonment theme and produces something...
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Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” goes the famous line from Anna Karenina, and the Faircloughs, the fractured...
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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman How does a lightly sweetened bildungsroman portray the experience of loss with conviction but without evoking the paralyzing misery of grief – which might ruin a...
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