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Summary: A comfort Sanders novel.
Review: A strange choice for a comfort readI know, but every now and then I come back to read this book again. The familiarity of Edward X Delaney and his delicious sandwiches. The developement of a killer who you grow to like and feel sorry for, even as she continues her murderous adventures. It does not matter that you know she is a killer, it is not even that important how Delaney catches her, I just the style of Sanders writing in this book. It is not similar in any way to his later McNally series, but the one thing Sanders does fantastically is to create characters you believe in.
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Summary: A comfort Sanders novel.
Review: A strange choice for a comfort readI know, but every now and then I come back to read this book again. The familiarity of Edward X Delaney and his delicious sandwiches. The developement of a killer who you grow to like and feel sorry for, even as she continues her murderous adventures. It does not matter that you know she is a killer, it is not even that important how Delaney catches her, I just the style of Sanders writing in this book. It is not similar in any way to his later McNally series, but the one thing Sanders does fantastically is to create characters you believe in.
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Summary: This is Sanders's best book!
Review: Even though you find out whodunit in the opening pages, this nvel is riveting. Not only do you get Edward X. Delaney and his sandwiches, you also get a couple of hundred pages from the killer's perspective. Some of Sanders's later works were kind of weak, but this one is superb!
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Summary: This is Sanders's best book!
Review: Even though you find out whodunit in the opening pages, this nvel is riveting. Not only do you get Edward X. Delaney and his sandwiches, you also get a couple of hundred pages from the killer's perspective. Some of Sanders's later works were kind of weak, but this one is superb!
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Summary: Super police procedural
Review: Maybe Sanders's best book (other choice is First Deadly Sin). Same detective in all the Sin books, but each has a slightly different feel. This is Ed McBain-ish, but (much) better.
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Summary: Simply not as remarkable as his first...but getting there.
Review: The Third Deadly Sin had a lot of factors that i found resembled the first novel a LITTLE bit too closely, such as the suspect dying of physical deterioration towards the end, the suspect's pathological relation to the act of sex...things like that. Also, the relationship between Monica and Edward Delaney (the detective) really does not clash well with the rest of the story. Who cares what Monica thinks- i think she is a pathetic and dull character- thats also what made the First Deadly Sin much better- it focused more on the detective, not his wife. Otherwise it was a good book. Lawrence Sanders is GOOD, but he was best in "THe Tenth Commandment." If anyone is wondering what one person thinks is his best work, thats it.
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Summary: Sanders slipped a bit here.
Review: This is an interesting serial-killer novel, except for the parts involving sandwiches and Zoe Kohler's suitor, Ernest Mittle. The sandwich stuff makes you feel like you're reading transcripts from The Food Channel, and poor little Ernest Mittle is simply too prim and proper for words. By the time you've known him for about five paragraphs, you yearn for him to meet Irene in a hotel bar very soon, and join the ranks of her victims.
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Summary: How To Lose A Guy In One Date
Review: This is an interesting serial-killer novel, except for the parts involving sandwiches and Zoe Kohler's suitor, Ernest Mittle. The sandwich stuff makes you feel like you're reading transcripts from The Food Channel, and poor little Ernest Mittle is simply too prim and proper for words. By the time you've known him for about five paragraphs, you yearn for him to meet Irene in a hotel bar very soon, and join the ranks of her victims.
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Summary: Bad book about sandwiches
Review: This is the third in the Sin series. It is the only one I read. It was so bad I didn't want to read the others. The first two might be good. The first one was made into a fairly good movie.The series is about Detective Delaney who hunts down serial killers. In this book, you meet the killer right off. She is a semi-sympathetic character who is killing bad men, such as cheating husbands. But, the author makes sure she should be caught and punished by having her kill one victim who turns out to be good and has second thoughts about cheating on his wife. Most of the book deals with how the killer does in her victims or how the detective makes a sandwich. Instead getting details on how the crime is solved, we get details about sloppy, gross sandwiches that are eaten over a sink. In the end the crime really isn't solved and the killer is discovered mostly by accident.
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Summary: Bad book about sandwiches
Review: This is the third in the Sin series. It is the only one I read. It was so bad I didn't want to read the others. The first two might be good. The first one was made into a fairly good movie. The series is about Detective Delaney who hunts down serial killers. In this book, you meet the killer right off. She is a semi-sympathetic character who is killing bad men, such as cheating husbands. But, the author makes sure she should be caught and punished by having her kill one victim who turns out to be good and has second thoughts about cheating on his wife. Most of the book deals with how the killer does in her victims or how the detective makes a sandwich. Instead getting details on how the crime is solved, we get details about sloppy, gross sandwiches that are eaten over a sink. In the end the crime really isn't solved and the killer is discovered mostly by accident.
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