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Summary: Highly recommended for a light-weight read.
Review: Although I generally prefer the Amelia Peabody books, this was one of the best Elizabeth Peters books I have read. Jacqueline Kirby is one-of-a-kind. It's a great story with just enough gentle sarcasm about mystery/romance writers. Good, suspsenseful plot.
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Summary: A PARALLEL OF RICHARD LOCKRIDGE'S "WRITE MURDER DOWN"
Review: DID THE AUTHOR REALIZE THE VILLAIN IN THE TWO BOOKS HAVE THE SAME NAME? THE SAME THEME OF UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS? LOCKRIDGE PUBLISHED HIS BOOK IN '72 AND PETERS [BARBARA MERTZ] PUBLISHED IN '89. MAYBE IT WAS WRITTEN BY THE SAME PERSON. COULD THAT BE POSSIBLE?
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Summary: Jacqueline Kirby books are always a treat!
Review: I didn't think this book was as good as "Die for Love," which I thought was hilarious. It lacked the humor and outrageousness of that book, but I still enjoyed the mystery and "unveiling," which came as a surprise. I LOVE JACQUELINE KIRBY! As a longtime fan of Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels, I only wish that she would write more books with this wonderful lady as her central heroine!
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Summary: Jacqueline Kirby books are always a treat!
Review: I didn't think this book was as good as "Die for Love," which I thought was hilarious. It lacked the humor and outrageousness of that book, but I still enjoyed the mystery and "unveiling," which came as a surprise. I LOVE JACQUELINE KIRBY! As a longtime fan of Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels, I only wish that she would write more books with this wonderful lady as her central heroine!
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Summary: Witty and fascinating as are all her books, but haunting too
Review: Jaqueline Kirby is a wonderful character, not as unusual as Ms. Peters' more popular sleuth Amelia Peabody (a hilarious Lady Egyptologist of the last century), but equally delightful to spend time with. The fourth Kirby book isn't as funny as the earlier "Die For Love" (set at a Romance Novel convention), but it's more absorbing and even haunting. This could be called Peter's "Gaudy Night", it accomplishes the rare feat of having an established lighthearted character show more feeling and depth than the reader expected, and doing it well.Kirby has gone from being an outrageously outspoken librarian to an outrageous "eccentric" bestselling author, and wins the chance to write a sequel to one of the best-selling books of the decade, whose young author disappeared seven years ago. She goes to the home town of the author, intending to do research, but is naturally caught up in the mystery of the disappearance. She finds a somehow haunted town, populated with people unable to go on with their lives, to accept the loss, obsessed with her, needing more from her, living in the past. Where could a strong-willed, outspoken, brilliant amateur sleuth be needed more? One of Peters' most moving and naturalistic books, I must have read this one ten times.
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Summary: Naked Once More
Review: Love this book - It pulls you in right from the first word and keeps you reading right to the enexpected end. Hated to put it down. Read it more then once.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Seven years before this novel opens, Kathleen Darcy, a novelist famous for her one book, __Naked in the Ice__, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Although no body was ever found and the only evidence was her abandoned car, which yielded no clues, her disappearance was officially ruled to be a suicide. Many of her friends, family, and fans question this conclusion and believe that she was either murdered or is still alive. In the present, our protagonist Jacqueline (don't dare to call her Jackie!) Kirby, a successful novelist in her own right, wins a competition and is chosen to write a sequel to Ms. Darcy's novel. Upset by this decision are some fans who believe that no sequel should ever be written, and at least two of the other authors who lost out to her in the competition. These two rather unsavory characters are the aptly (self)named Brunhilde, and the bullying Jack Carter. How Jacqueline "destroys" these two through public humiliation is almost a case study in "coolness." Jacqueline is a bit of an amateur detective whose instincts tell her that something is really amiss. There are a lot of people who might have had motives to get rid of Kathleen Darcy, and maybe Jacqueline, too. She therefore makes it her business to determine: (A): If Kathleen Darcy was murdered, or (B): She committed suicide, or (C): She is still alive, and (D): If murder, who is responsible, or (E): If she committed suicide, why, or (F): If she is still alive, where is she, and (G): Who murdered the owner of a local bookstore, a fanatical fan of Darcy, and why, and finally (H): Who is setting up "accidents" that threaten Jacqueline's life, and why do they mirror a series of so-called accidents that happened to Darcy shortly before her disappearance? Whew! That's a lot. Now let's throw in a sleazy lawyer, Kathleen's most unappealing half-brother, a handsome chef, a handsome neighbor, a dishonest agent, a couple of Kathleen's sisters, the two losing authors already mentioned, and one or two others, all with seeming motives, and all with something to hide. It's Jacqueline's self-assigned job to sort through all of these people and possibilities while protecting herself, and o find the solution to this "who-dunnit." How well does she do? You'll have to make it your job to find out.
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Summary: SUICIDE? -- MURDER? -- OR?
Review: Seven years before this novel opens, Kathleen Darcy, a novelist famous for her one book, __Naked in the Ice__, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Although no body was ever found and the only evidence was her abandoned car, which yielded no clues, her disappearance was officially ruled to be a suicide. Many of her friends, family, and fans question this conclusion and believe that she was either murdered or is still alive. In the present, our protagonist Jacqueline (don't dare to call her Jackie!) Kirby, a successful novelist in her own right, wins a competition and is chosen to write a sequel to Ms. Darcy's novel. Upset by this decision are some fans who believe that no sequel should ever be written, and at least two of the other authors who lost out to her in the competition. These two rather unsavory characters are the aptly (self)named Brunhilde, and the bullying Jack Carter. How Jacqueline "destroys" these two through public humiliation is almost a case study in "coolness." Jacqueline is a bit of an amateur detective whose instincts tell her that something is really amiss. There are a lot of people who might have had motives to get rid of Kathleen Darcy, and maybe Jacqueline, too. She therefore makes it her business to determine: (A): If Kathleen Darcy was murdered, or (B): She committed suicide, or (C): She is still alive, and (D): If murder, who is responsible, or (E): If she committed suicide, why, or (F): If she is still alive, where is she, and (G): Who murdered the owner of a local bookstore, a fanatical fan of Darcy, and why, and finally (H): Who is setting up "accidents" that threaten Jacqueline's life, and why do they mirror a series of so-called accidents that happened to Darcy shortly before her disappearance? Whew! That's a lot. Now let's throw in a sleazy lawyer, Kathleen's most unappealing half-brother, a handsome chef, a handsome neighbor, a dishonest agent, a couple of Kathleen's sisters, the two losing authors already mentioned, and one or two others, all with seeming motives, and all with something to hide. It's Jacqueline's self-assigned job to sort through all of these people and possibilities while protecting herself, and o find the solution to this "who-dunnit." How well does she do? You'll have to make it your job to find out.
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Summary: Naked Once More
Review: This book is one of E. Peter's very best, and I know, I have read every E. Peter's book including those under Barbara Michael's real name. The book is a clever satire and mystery rolled into one. There are many Peter's books I would happily re-read, this one tops the list.
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Summary: This is a book worth reading
Review: This book was my first Elizabeth Peters book, but my 3rd by this Author (Barbara Michaels). I have also read Shattered Silk and Stitches in time. I enjoy the the Author's style of writing and will read her books again. I like books that keep your attention without shocking you or using too many of the same cliches. These are more written in a way that is very believable.
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