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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Who Says You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover?
We've all talked about judging a book by its cover.
I came across this article on the subject.
I do love me a great cover. However, I wasn't really taken with the top choices in the article.
I lean more towards cozy covers. And historicals.
Do you have a cover preference (in certain genres)?
I came across this article on the subject.
I do love me a great cover. However, I wasn't really taken with the top choices in the article.
I lean more towards cozy covers. And historicals.
Do you have a cover preference (in certain genres)?
Review: Murder Past Due by Miranda James
Give me a mystery and I'm happy.
Give me a cat in said mystery, and I'm ecstatic.
Murder Past Due
by Miranda James is the first in the "Cat In The Stacks" series.
From the back cover:
A famous author of gory bestsellers and a former classmate of Charlie's, Godfrey Priest may be the pride of Athena, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant, manipulative jerk - and he's not the only one. Godfrey's homecoming as a distinguished alumnus couldn't possibly go worse: by lunch, he's put a man in the hospital. And by dinner, Godfrey is dead.
Now it's up to Charlie, with some help from Diesel, to pay through the town's grudges and find the killer before an impatient deputy throws the book at the wrong person. But every last one of Charlie's friends and coworkers had a score to settle with the nasty novelist. As if murder wasn't already purr-plexing enough...
This was a thoroughly enjoyable mystery. I loved the setting of Athena, a small southern college town. Charlie is an archivist in the university's library, and he brings his Maine Coon cat with him wherever he goes. Diesel gets walked on a harness leash, and being almost 30 lbs., he's like no other cat that most people have seen.
The storyline is solid, and the characters were believable. I have a picture of Charlie in my mind, but somehow I felt his character would have been better if he was gay. In the book, he's not. It was just the feeling I got when reading it. Do you sometimes picture what a character looks like and then when the movie comes out, they are totally not what you pictured at all? Well, in my mind, Charlie is gay. Not that it matters. He's such a likeable guy, and it's a nice change from the many books I read with female sleuths.
And for me, Diesel just stole the show. A humongous cat that chirps and gets walked on a leash will have me at hello any day!
*****this book was graciously sent to me by the publisher in return for an honest review. I was not required to give a positive review, just an honest one. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Give me a cat in said mystery, and I'm ecstatic.
Murder Past Due by Miranda James is the first in the "Cat In The Stacks" series.From the back cover:
A famous author of gory bestsellers and a former classmate of Charlie's, Godfrey Priest may be the pride of Athena, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant, manipulative jerk - and he's not the only one. Godfrey's homecoming as a distinguished alumnus couldn't possibly go worse: by lunch, he's put a man in the hospital. And by dinner, Godfrey is dead.
Now it's up to Charlie, with some help from Diesel, to pay through the town's grudges and find the killer before an impatient deputy throws the book at the wrong person. But every last one of Charlie's friends and coworkers had a score to settle with the nasty novelist. As if murder wasn't already purr-plexing enough...
This was a thoroughly enjoyable mystery. I loved the setting of Athena, a small southern college town. Charlie is an archivist in the university's library, and he brings his Maine Coon cat with him wherever he goes. Diesel gets walked on a harness leash, and being almost 30 lbs., he's like no other cat that most people have seen.
The storyline is solid, and the characters were believable. I have a picture of Charlie in my mind, but somehow I felt his character would have been better if he was gay. In the book, he's not. It was just the feeling I got when reading it. Do you sometimes picture what a character looks like and then when the movie comes out, they are totally not what you pictured at all? Well, in my mind, Charlie is gay. Not that it matters. He's such a likeable guy, and it's a nice change from the many books I read with female sleuths.
And for me, Diesel just stole the show. A humongous cat that chirps and gets walked on a leash will have me at hello any day!
*****this book was graciously sent to me by the publisher in return for an honest review. I was not required to give a positive review, just an honest one. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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