Reviewer: Shirley - RAM

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Reviews In Database: 159
Most Recent Review Date: 11/18/2009
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A Load of Old Bones by Suzette A. Hill [4.5 stars]

Desolate Angel by Chaz McGee [5 stars]

Dead Write by Sheila Lowe [4 stars]

Mazurka by Aaron Paul Lazar [3 stars]

A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny [5 stars]

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin [5 stars]

No Sanctuary by F. M. Meredith [3.5 stars]

Sweeping Up Glass by Carolyn D. Wall [5 stars]

Murder By The Numbers by Richard Hicks [4 stars]

The Critic by Peter May [5 stars]

Crosscut by Meg Gardiner [5 stars]

A Job to Kill For by Janice Kaplan [3 stars]

Blood Memory by Margaret Coel [5 stars]

Stamped Out by Terri Thayer [4 stars]

Wicked Weaves by Joyce and Jim Lavene [3 stars]

Angel's Tip by Alafair Burke [5 stars]

Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder by Gyles Brandreth [4.5 stars]

Death Swatch by Laura Childs [5 stars]

Goody Goody Gunshots by Sammi Carter [4 stars]

Still Life by Louise Penny [5 stars]

What Are You Wearing To Die? by Patricia Houck Sprinkle [4 stars]

A Tisket, A Tasket, A Fancy Stolen Casket by Fran Rizer [3 stars]

Bring Your Own Poison by Jimmie Ruth Evans [5 stars]

Dead of the Day by Karen E. Olson [5 stars]

Skate Crime by Alina Adams [1 stars]

The Berlin Conspiracy by Tom Gabbay [5 stars]

A Walk in the Sun by Anton White [4.5 stars]

Too Pretty to Die by Susan McBride [4 stars]

Death Song by Michael McGarrity [4 stars]

Killer Mousse by Melinda Wells [4 stars]

Hex Marks the Spot by Madelyn Alt [2.5 stars]

In Secret Service by Mitch Silver [4 stars]

Deadly Vintage by Elaine Flinn [3 stars]

Acts of Nature by Jonathon King [4.5 stars]

Death of a Maid by M. C. Beaton [4 stars]

A Student of Living Things by Susan Richards Shreve [4.5 stars]

The Leopard Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt [4.5 stars]

Hot Rocks by Lev Raphael [4.5 stars]

Never Say Die by Kris Neri [5 stars]

Trial & Error by Paul Levine [5 stars]

Got the Look by James Grippando [4.5 stars]

Play Dead by David Rosenfelt [4.5 stars]

Capable of Murder by Brian Kavanagh [3 stars]

Silence by Thomas Perry [4 stars]

Key Lime Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke [4 stars]

First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde [5 stars]

Death By Chick Lit by Lynn Harris [4 stars]

Killer Weekend by Ridley Pearson [4.5 stars]

Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict [4 stars]

Web of Evil by J. A. Jance [4.5 stars]

I grew up in a small PA town but have lived in Philadelphia, Chicago, rural Iowa and spent years farming in Ohio. Bred Hereford cattle, grew corn and soybeans and eventually pick-your-own blackberries and field grown garden chrysanthemums. I¹ve worked in accounting and taxes, on the census, wrote a column on gardening and country things, and spent the last 10 years living in Columbus and working in the admissions office of Ohio State Univ.

My taste in reading is broad, but I prefer logic to the woo-woo factor and subtlety to extremely graphic sex and violence. Dark is Ok, only like historical novels or anthropomorphic animals if very well done. Some of my favorite authors are Robert Crais, Nevada Barr, C J Box, J A Jance¹s Joanna Brady series, Keith Snyder, Ian Rankin, John Baker, and Stephen Booth.

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