Love Songs for the Dead (Gloria Berk Mysteries)

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Summary: Couldn't Put it Down!
Review: I loved this book! Love Songs for the Dead was full of fascinating characters - Gloria, Manny, Peter and Irma - I just kept reading it because I couldn't wait to see what would happen next. Gloria Berk is a heroine for today's woman - filled with ambition, desires and insecurities. I can't wait to read the next Gloria Berk novel. Gisela Huberman keeps the pages turning with intriguing story filled with surprising twists - I couldn't put it down!

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Summary: Mysterious, Sexy, Dangerous. . .
Review: Love Songs for the Dead, by Gisela Huberman. Beverly Hills, CA: Laredo Publishing, 2000.

Gloria Berk, the heroine of this first novel and series to be, is a radio disc jockey, a law student, an amorous woman, and the type of quick thinker who can make up inventive contests and unmask (and even surreptitiously broadcast) a murderer. In Love Songs for the Dead, first-time novelist Gisela Huberman launches a mystery series, featuring Berk, with a whodunit centering around the murder of a wealthy radio station owner. The intriguing cast of characters includes a beautiful and sexually frustrated wife, a mistress, an unlucky but sensually irresistible disc jockey, Manny, who handles the love songs, a warm and sexy-- but perhaps unavailable--law professor, a station manager with a secret, and a talkative boss. Woven into the story is a contest devised by Berk to not only draw listeners to her station but ultimately to trap a killer. Berk is a detective along the lines of Kinsey Milhone: self-reflective, single, adventurous, sexually frank, and indisputably clever. While negotiating various dangers including a stalking fan, a murderer set upon silencing her, a cop interested in dating her, and a crush on her law professor, Berk manages to entertain us with her internal monologues and her unraveling of a satisfying plot. Huberman draws upon her own experiences as the owner and CEO of a radio station group and practicing attorney in Washington D.C. We might see a new mystery in a university setting as well for Huberman also was a professor of linguistics at the American University. I look forward to the further unfolding of this intriguing new writer and her equally interesting detective.

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Summary: G-L-O-R-I-A!
Review: Loved it. An engrossing whodunit from inside the world of radio, the pages by. Excellent book. Looking forward to the author's next Gloria Berk mystery.