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Book Review: Laura Lippman’s Charm City

Book Review: Laura Lippman’s Charm City

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Charm Cityby Laura Lippman mystery, private investigator in a paperback edition that was published by Avon Publications on October 1, 1997 and has 304 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Girl in the Green Raincoat, Baltimore Blues, Butchers Hill, In Big Trouble, Games Creatures PlaySecond in the Tess Monaghan mystery series set in Baltimore, Maryland and revolving around a former journalist turned private detective. My Take The primary theme is one of betrayal. Betrayal of one’s ethics and of friends. Using and manipulating friends to help is one thing; doing it to achieve one’s personal goals is another. A preponderance of the latter weighs very heavily in Charm City from a battering of journalistic ethics, making that career leap, destruction of lives to maintain past secrets, and hiding one’s primal enjoyment of the kill. Most of which can be traced to one man’s pride. Lippman keeps the action moving forward as Tess tells the story with some of my guesses teetering wildly […]

Posted November 5, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s One Salt Sea

Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s One Salt Sea

Someone has kidnapped the sons of the Duchess Dianda Lorden, regent of the Undersea Duchy of Saltmist. To prevent a war between land and sea, Sir October “Toby” Daye must not only find the missing boys, but also prove that the Queen of the Mists was not behind their abduction. She’ll need all her tricks and the help of her allies if she wants to make it through this in one piece.

Posted October 31, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments