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Title: Skeletons by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1-55166-749-5 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: First Time
Comment: First time I have read this author - read the book in one sitting and was truly surprised and delighted. The plot was excellent, the heroine intelligent, and the book continued where most writers simply run out of steam or to formula. I'll be reading more of Ms. Wilhelm for the sheer luxurious pleasure of all the criteria above. Thanks!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Guilty Pleasure!
Comment: Lee Donne is an underachiever, mired in a family of overachievers-a mother with three doctorates, an economics genius for a father, a grandfather who is a world-renowned Shakespearean scholar, and a brother who has just graduated from medical school and is embarking on an internship. Even her roommate is a computer genius. But Lee can't even settle on a major. She changes it every time she gets within a whisker's length of graduating. She does have one ability going for her, though-a photographic memory.
With nothing better to do, she agrees to house sit for her grandfather. She's braced herself for a boring time of cataloguing books and quiet evenings, but that scenario soon proves to be false. She starts hearing strange noises at night, and sees a shadowy figure lurking on the grounds. She's convinced that someone is trying to scare her to the point of leaving the house unguarded. She can't even guess at what he might want from inside the house. Soon, however, she discovers that it's skeletons in her own family's closet that holds the key to the mystery. To make matters worse, the dark secrets she discovers go well beyond her own family and into the political arena. Armed with only her photographic memory and with the aid of her roommate and a newspaper reporter hell-bent on breaking a top story, she is suddenly on a rollercoaster ride of an investigation that takes her from the northwest to New Orleans. However, her investigation could not only have grave repercussions for her family, but also put her life and the lives of her two friends at great risk.
Romantic mysteries are not usually my genre of choice. There is no substance or nutritional value. However, every now and then, like breaking a strict diet, I need to feed on a guilty pleasure, such as candy or a hot fudge sundae. This book is like that. It fills a need, like junk food for the mind. It limped along at the beginning, but soon picked up a full head of steam and kept me engrossed and turning pages. I fell in love with Lee Donne for all her foibles and character flaws. The mystery was no great mystery, but it was fun to see how she unraveled it in her own mind, like watching Columbo-even though you know who done it, it's fun to see him wade through the mystery. The book limps again a little bit at the very end, but all in all it succeeded in fulfilling my craving for a much-needed guilty pleasure.
Rating: 4
Summary: Quedice's Review of "Skeletons" by Kate Wilhem
Comment: Quedice ripped Wilhelm for "a narrow view of New Orleans".
For some reason I have thought that what Wilhelm was writing was
"fiction". For some reason Quedice thinks that his/her fact should be in Wilhelm's fiction. My feeling is if you want fact,
you should read "non fiction" and then most of the time you still get a lot of fiction.
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Title: Clear And Convincing Proof by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1551666979 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Defense for the Devil by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1551666286 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Deepest Water by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1551668467 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Desperate Measures by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1551669072 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: No Defense by Wilhelm ISBN: 1551667851 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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