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Title: Sugar Skull: An Eve Diamond Novel (Eve Diamond Novels) by Denise Hamilton ISBN: 0-7434-8221-2 Publisher: Pocket Star Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: engaging investigative tale
Comment: Los Angeles Times reporter is working on the weekend homicide count when a flustered angry man races into the newsroom accusing the cops of indifference towards the disappearance of his daughter. To calm the father Vincent down, reporter Eve Diamond agrees to make inquiries into the vanishing of Isabel Chevalier.
However, as Eve starts looking into the disappearance and finishing her cataloguing the thirty plus known murders, the killing murder of socialite Dellaviglia Langdon sends shockwaves throughout the city. Dellaviglia's spouse Carter is running for mayor and his wife's body floating in her pool provide him a tremendous lift towards winning the race. Overnight he has become the overwhelming favorite as everyone sympathizes with the grieving politician. That is everyone except Eve who via a pair of Speedo sees links to the promise she made to the distraught father and to another dead person that leads to corruption at the highest level of the city and could change the dynamics of the mayoral race.
This is an engaging investigative tale that displays how a high profile case can overwhelm anything else on the plate. The store line is very invigorating as Eve paints a vivid but somewhat ugly picture of the mean streets of Los Angeles that interconnect. Eve makes the tale work as she tries to clean up her home city even when her bosses, the police, and the mayor demand she back off.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: Sweet
Comment: Eve Diamond is a reporter for the L.A. Times whose morning starts hectically when a father bursts into her offices trying to enlist help to find his missing daughter. His daughter experimented with squating, and in fact admired the squatting youth of L.A. so much she dated one, who was prime suspect in her murder. The same weekend Venus (won't try to spell part of name) Langdon was found floating in her swimming pool. And a pool cleaner was killed in an apparant drive by shooting.
Three aparantly unconnected homicides, yet Eve is determined to find the truth in all three.
Hamilton's style is amazing, having worked as a reporter she sure knows her subject, and there is a definite passion in her story-telling. This novel is much like Ms. Eve Diamond, compassionate, sardonic and witty. The pacing is amazing and Hamilton writes the L.A. youth with remarkable skill.
Overall an excellent second entry into the Eve Diamond Mythos.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent! Fabulous writing!
Comment: I, too, could not put this book down. Ms. Hamilton's writing style (one of the best), coupled with the great plot and interesting descriptions of Los Angeles (I also live in the L.A. area) were great. I look forward to reading much more of Eve Diamond's adventures.
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Title: The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton ISBN: 0786015233 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Last Lullaby: An Eve Diamond Novel (Eve Diamond Novels) by Denise Hamilton ISBN: 0743245407 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Narrows: A Novel by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316155306 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Novel by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0743245423 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The 37th Hour by Jodi Compton ISBN: 0385337132 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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