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Hi, here I am again, a guest editor on the Mystery Newsletter. I'll be back again at least two more times.
I'm an avid mystery reader, and now a mystery writer. To become a better writer, one needs to read and read and read, learning along the way what works and what doesn't.
Therefore, when I read a good mystery, I feel I have been helped to better my writing. In this issue, I'll review a well-written mystery I read last week.
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Absinthe of Malice - a review
I opened Absinthe of Malice to read while I waited, something to fill otherwise wasted time. What I discovered was a plot and characters that grabbed me and pulled me into the story. I couldn’t sleep until I finished the novel.
Pat Browning’s craft of weaving a believable and realistic mystery, with crime, hatred, love, and hope all mixed together, should interest most readers, and it certainly did me. I’m picky about what I read, and I often find myself editing rather than enjoying. However, this book gave me very few opportunities to reach for my mental red pencil. Penny MacKennzie was a reluctant detective and heroine, but she decided to find the truth about her friend’s death. Even if she did stumble into a couple of messy situations that would stop my heart, she survived with everything but pride in tact.
The secrets of a small town, and the power struggles often found, created the backdrop for a grave with bones on the edge of a cotton field, the deaths of two women, and the shifting of money and land. What effect did the history of three men have on the present and future of their descendants? The answer was twisted among the romance and love stories of two generations.
Absinthe of Malice is fast paced, racing the reader from one scene to another, between the normal activities of life to the creepy darkness of late night explorations, from a touching scene between older lovers to the meeting and rekindling of an old love. After all, a good mystery needs a touch of romance, and the romance of this book isn’t graphic, but just tantalizing enough to be “just right” for the imagination of the reader to add details.
I enjoyed the book and recommend it, even though a couple of spots aren’t as smooth as the rest. The few, very few, glitches aren’t noticeable through a first reading.
Copies can be ordered through any bookstore, online at http://amazon.com or http://bn.com , or as a Kindle e-book at http://kindlebooks.com . |
Items from W.Com
-- a folder of Thrills and Chills
-- another folder, this time of thriller/suspense and mystery
-- a folder of Mystery Short Stories
-- a story about the Mafia
-- two short stories about Murder
-- mystery and a new life
And this time, although I don't often use a newsletter edited by me to promote my own writing, I want to present one of my mysteries, the story that grew into the novel Midnight Hours: . |
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Mystery: February 04, 2009 Issue [#2865]
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