Book Reviews
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Book Review: Cross
Alex Cross, the character popularized by Morgan Freeman in ‘Kiss the Girls’ and ‘Along came a Spider’, is back. This one is a younger version of Cross, though recently widowed and probably more romantic. He has two children, he raises with his grandmother. Alex is now in private practice, having quit the FBI and has Read more
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Book Review: Road to Perdition
Having reviewed the movie a couple of weeks ago,Let us now examine the graphic novel that inspired the movie. Authored by Max Allan Collins and with artwork from Richard Piers Rayner, this book is a black-and-white work of art, a film noir in print. It is a tale of a mob enforcer, Michael Sullivan and Read more
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Book Review: At the Stroke of Madness
This was the first time I’ve read a novel by Alex Kava. Once again, it is a story of a sleuth, on the trail of a twisted serial killer. The sleuth is Maggie O’Dell, an FBI agent, apparently a fixture in most Kava books. As the story begins, O’Dell comes to Connecticut to search for Read more
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Book Review: Innovate like Edison
Sometimes, the best nuggets are found hidden in the bargain rack of your local Borders bookstore. That was exactly where I found this book, that for some reason, seems to have slipped the bestseller radar. From the bestselling author Michael Gelb who produced ‘How To Innovate like Leonardo Da Vinci’ comes this hidden jewel. While Read more
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Book Review: Freakonomics
I loved every moment of reading this book. It is outlandish and out of the ordinary. However, there was one facet, or lack thereof that stood out. It was the lack of a cohesive theme. All the anecdotes and stories broadly and somewhat loosely fall into the category of ‘Hidden details that tell the real Read more
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Book Review: The Coffin Dancer
Coffin dancer is a thriller featuring sleuth, Lincoln Rhymes by Jeffrey Deaver Once again, Lincoln Rhymes and his beautiful cohort Amelia Sachs are on the trail of a psycho hired assassin who enjoys blowing up his victims with his ingeniously made bombs. Paraplegic Rhymes is as always, ably assisted by his high tech toys to Read more
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