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dead ringer

My mom goes to a lot of book sales and is always picking new stuff up for me. I had never heard of the author (Lisa Scottoline) of this book before, but I’ll pretty much give anything a shot, so I put it on my reading list. I was pleasantly …

prayers for the dead

This was a pretty good crime novel. At times, I felt like I was reading Ed McBain, which is a compliment to the author, Faye Kellerman. The only negative, really, was that some of the dialog was forced. Really forced. The less annoying of the two examples was the main …

cross country

This was another book from James Patterson’s Alex Cross series. This time, Alex goes to Africa to track down a killer. This was a quick read, but it didn’t leave me with much.

double cross

This was another book from James Patterson’s Alex Cross series. Either I’m sick of this series or James Patterson’s writing isn’t what it used to be. I think it might be the latter. The book was entertaining enough but it really lacked depth–the characters were very one-dimensional. That said, I …