Re: Please Help! Need Great Reads!

"Karnak17" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >also check:
> >Nevada Barr
> >April Smith
>
> I've tried one each of these guys.  The Nevada Barr ("Ill Wind") was ok,
but
> not smashing.  The other--"New Orleans Mourning"?--I didn't care for.

New Orleans Mourning is Julie Smith, not April Smith.  Ill Wind isn't one of
the very best of Barr's books, nor is it one of the worst.  For the best,
try Firestorm, Blind Descent, or Deep South.

> >Laurie King's [Kate Martinelli series]
>
> Not familiar with Kate Martinelli.  I did read at least one of her Mary
Russell
> (?) mysteries, and kind of hated them.  (The heroine's condescending
attitude
> towards Watson pissed me off.)

The Kate Martinelli books are quite different from the Mary Russell books.
However, they are also somewhat inconsistent.  I think To Play the Fool is a
bit of a masterpiece, and A Grave Talent is also good.  King's last two
books, which are somewhat connected, but not part of either earlier series,
are excellent.  Those would be Folly and Keeping Watch.

Mark Alan Miller