Underrated Reads

In Secret Service – Mitch Silver

Posted on April 11, 2015 by J D Jung

Reviewed by Lillian Thurston Ian Fleming may be gone, but this fascinating tale of a 40-year-old secret resurrects the old master. Raymond Greenberg of New Haven, Connecticut, is dead. As executor to his will, his granddaughter, Amy Greenberg, a young American historian, receives a letter from a Dublin bank. Due to impending closure they request…

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The Alpine Zen: An Emma Lord Mystery – Mary Daheim

Posted on April 7, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Melanie Hamilton) The Alpine Zen is the last of the alphabet series by Mary Daheim. For me, though, it is the first; and I am looking forward to starting from the beginning. In this Emma Lord Mystery, we find Emma at her Alpine Advocate desk writing her editorial. Not much breaking news in…

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Intent to Hold – Thonie Hevron

Posted on April 2, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “But she’d killed a man. Even though he was inches away from stabbing a deputy, it instigated a worse series of incidents that had almost killed her. The last months had drained her in ways she never knew existed and allowed the insidious contamination of betrayal to gain a hold in…

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Posted on April 1, 2015 by J D Jung

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A Killer Retreat – Tracy Weber

Posted on March 28, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Glenda Anderson) Orcas Island, Washington, site of a beautiful resort, is the locale of the new Downward Dog Mystery, A Killer Retreat. Invited to a wedding, Kate, a Seattle yoga teacher, drags along her newish boyfriend and her 100-lb. German shepherd for some get-to-know-each-other-time and festivities. Even though their cabin is more Plymouth-Rock-Austere…

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Dogwalker – Arthur Bradford

Posted on March 23, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) You know what it’s like when you first wake up from a weird dream, but you remember that it didn’t seem weird at all at the time?. That is, it seemed quite natural, then totally surreal when you woke up? You may even try to analyze it. What does it all…

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You Can’t Win – Jack Black

Posted on March 20, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “From the day I left my father my lines had been cast, or I cast them myself, among crooked people. I had not spent one hour in the company of an honest person. I had lived in an atmosphere of larceny, theft, crime. I thought in terms of theft. Houses were…

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A Corner of the World – Mylene Fernández Pintado (Translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster)

Posted on March 11, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “It doesn't seem crazy to want to live in my country. Or there must be a lot of crazy people around. Or is it that I belong to a group you left out…? The group for whom being here is more important than the superlatives of over there.” Marian’s country is…

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The Lost Treasures of R & B – Nelson George

Posted on March 3, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “They were both Golden Gloves boxers and had that good foot work. They both did splits. Weren't afraid to get on the floor. Not spinning like hip hoppers but they would get on their knees to sell a song...That man could get on his knees in his suit and bend backward like…

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Posted on February 26, 2015 by J D Jung

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