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Foul Matter
by
Martha Grimes
fiction, mystery in a paperback edition that was published by New American Library (NAL) on September 7, 2004 and has 384 pages.
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Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Knowledge
This was sooo good! I had a hard time getting into it at first but Foul Matter grew on me. It has a fascinating insight into the publishing industry as I suspect it really is but the best of it was the interaction of the writers and the hit men.
I find that I truly appreciate getting inside the head of a writer. How they write, how they think, how the story progresses. Heck, how the story comes about! Then Grimes adds the philosophical hit men with a heart… Lord wait until you get to the second to the last line at the end of chapter 34. Or the Keystone Kops routine at the Pittsburgh Hilton.
Then the title. I could not figure out how the title fit until the very end. Shame on you Martha! That was so not fair…you had better be writing something “foul”…I need ta know!
