Thursday, October 8, 2009

Review Thursdays: Quick Fiction Picks

Even Money by Dick Francis and Felix Francis (2009)

Ed Talbot, a bookmaker working the English racing circuit, is shocked when a stranger introduces himself as Ed’s father – who Ed had been told died 30 years ago. When Ed witnesses his father’s fatal stabbing, he finds himself in a race to save his own life.

Woman with Birthmark: An Inspector Van Veeteran Mystery by Hakan Nesser (2009)

Swedish Police Chief Inspector Van Veeteran and his team are bewildered by the murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. Their frustration increases when a second victim suffers the same fate.

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (2009)

It’s 1937 in Shanghai and sisters May and Pearl are leading lives of glamour and freedom. All that changes abruptly when their father announces he’s arranged marriages for them with Chinese businessmen who live in California.

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