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Tag Archives: ARC

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Darkest Hour by Meg Cabot (BR00031)

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March 28 2004

Plot or Premise

Cover: Darkest Hour by Meg Cabot

Suzannah is a mediator — she helps ghosts move on from this plane to the next. But when she’s not embracing her sixth sense, she’s earning money as a staff babysitter at a hotel/resort and dreaming about Jesse who haunts her current home. Then she meets trouble in the form of spoiled brat Jack who can also see ghosts, but doesn’t know that ghosts are actually real and is instead three steps away from a nervous breakdown.… Read the rest

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So Like Sleep by Jeremiah Healy (BR00038)

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October 9 2003

Plot or Premise

Cover: So Like Sleep by Jeremiah Healy

John Cuddy gets asked by a friend to look into what appears to be an open-and-shut case — a young impoverished black man tries to get ahead at university, dates a white co-ed, and then after she turns up dead, he confesses to the crime while holding the murder weapon.… Read the rest

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Coffee Break Mysteries by William S. Shepherd (BR00028)

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April 26 2003

Plot or Premise

Cover: Coffee Break Mysteries by William S. Shepherd

A collection of 20 solve-them-yourself mysteries, perfect for reading on your break. For context, the stories are all short, suitable for reading one or two on a coffee break. If you have seen the 5-minute mysteries in the back of magazines like Reader’s Digest or remember the old Encyclopedia Brown series, then you understand the premise — you read a short-short story (almost flash length) with a mystery of “who did something”, ending with the narrator announcing she or he knows the solution.… Read the rest

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Scarpetta’s Winter Table by Patricia Cornwell (BR00087)

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October 10 1999

Plot or Premise

Cover: Scarpetta's Winter Table by Patricia Cornwell

A cookbook disguised as a novel.

What I Liked

Nothing.

What I Didn’t Like

It was ADVERTISED as a combination of a cookbook with stories about Dr. Kay Scarpetta, and in that light, it fails on all counts. There IS no story, and nothing happening in the non-story — and worse still, none of the characters act like they do in the novels.… Read the rest

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