--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA500010 Date: 06/04/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 03:52pm \/To: STEPHANIE SHAPTER (Read 4 times) Subj: Nelson DeMille Stephanie Shapter was telling Phyllis Campbell about Nelson DeMille.. SS>I have FROM POTTER'S FIELD but I haven't read it yet. I am currently read SS>a book called THE LAST COYOTE. I'm not sure who the author is, but it's pre SS>good. I liked the first in the series by Cornwell, CRUEL AND UNUSUAL. BTW, I think Cornwell's first was Post Mortem. :) SS>BTW...have you read anything by Nelson Demille? He's good too. I just finished Spencerville and found it to be a good read. I want to get the General's Daughter and The Gold Coast and see how they pan out. Have you read either of them? *** SLMR 2.1a Chopped cabbage...not just a good idea, it's the SLAW! --- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #189 * Origin: The Mystic Korner, Wenatchee, Wa. 509.886.7607 - 884.0352 (1:344/115.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA500011 Date: 06/04/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 03:57pm \/To: MEG ANTCZAK (Read 4 times) Subj: Kellerman--The Web MA>Hi Friends-- Hi, Meg.... MA> I just finished Jonathan Kellerman's latest book. (No, it is not MA>about the internet.) This is the first book of his that I have been MA>disappointed in. I think I didn't enjoy it because of the setting. Also MA>the only characters I liked were Alex and his girlfriend Robin. Comments MA>anyone? I agree. Compared with most of his other Delaware books, I found the characters to be somewhat shallow and predictable, and the plot a little thin....and far fetched. :( *** SLMR 2.1a *Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route --- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #189 * Origin: The Mystic Korner, Wenatchee, Wa. 509.886.7607 - 884.0352 (1:344/115.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA500012 Date: 06/04/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 04:06pm \/To: MEG ANTCZAK (Read 4 times) Subj: Kellerman--The Web Meg Antzak was say about Joseph Kellerman... MA> > I haven't read it yet, but he is one of my favorite authors MA> > and I look forward to reading it. I did think it was about MA> > the Internet, so thanks for the warning. If I don't like MA> > the other characters, I'm in trouble. I don't particularly MA> > care for Robin, so I'd be left alone with Alex. Hmmm. MA>Well I wouldn't mind being left alone with Alex. Actually I picture MA>him looking like the author and I think he's pretty good looking. The cover MA>only shows his face, I'd like to see a full-length picture of him. Have you read any of his wife's books? Faye Kellerman. I read her latest, JUSTICE and liked it MUCH better than The Web. BTW, she's no slouch in the looks department, either! :) Doncha just hate it...talent, money AND looks!!!! *** SLMR 2.1a A hundred thousand lemmings can't all be wrong. --- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #189 * Origin: The Mystic Korner, Wenatchee, Wa. 509.886.7607 - 884.0352 (1:344/115.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA500013 Date: 06/04/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 10:52pm \/To: STEPHANIE SHAPTER (Read 4 times) Subj: Patricia Cornwell Stephanie Shapter was asking DER if she's seen her somewhere else... SS>I sure hope so!! I find that I can't put them down once I start!! I am SS>disappointed to be finished. Not that any of her books dissapiont me, t's SS>just that I'm sorry I'm finished reading them!! SS>BTW...do you get any other echoes here on FIDO? Your name is very familiar. Oh no! The secret's out! Delores Rowe is a FIDO junkie!! :) Yep, I participate on several of the FIDO echoes, most frequently on Debate, Fishing, EMS, and Cooking. I recently found this echo, and am enjoying it immensly!! I have a list of books from tips picked up here that should fulfill my reading needs for quite some time!! I too enjoy Cornwall very much, and have a tendency to go on a reading marathon whenever I get a new one! Have you read Tami Hoag? If you haven't read any of hers, try NIGHT SINS. I guarantee you that you will like it...and you will run yourself ragged looking for the sequel, GUILTY AS SIN. Have you ever wondered if any of the authors lurk on this echo to see what we are saying about them?:) *** SLMR 2.1a * No one is ever old enough to know better. --- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #189 * Origin: The Mystic Korner, Wenatchee, Wa. 509.886.7607 - 884.0352 (1:344/115.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAA00000 Date: 06/05/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 12:35am \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 4 times) Subj: Exceptions I'd like to say to , Patricia Ferrara (1:3828/1) who said: > I haven't tried any of James Lee Burke's books. Does > he manage all that without being overly descriptive? > One of the main reasons I couldn't get through Margaret > Mitchell's GWTW was that her descriptions ran on and on > and on and on... etc. Well, he IS descriptive, but lyrically so. Sometimes he writes more poetry than prose. BB> Hmm...I've seen quite a few movies that I think were better than the BB> books. "Silence of the Lambs" leaps to mind. Of course there have BB> been far more disappointments. > Well, maybe it's the books and movies I choose, then. I > couldn't stomach Silence of the Lambs. Sounds like we have different tastes. What do you enjoy? --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAA00001 Date: 06/05/96 From: CATHERINE VANICEK Time: 03:34am \/To: TOM ALMY (Read 4 times) Subj: Echo list Tom, I know that you are going to be taking Butter down, so I hate to bother you with a question -- again. But I received mail from the Echolist Robot again. Several months ago I relisted MYSTERY and SF because the moderator, David Dyer-Bennet, was moving and his computer was down. Now, perhaps because *I* did it for him, I've been informed that these echoes will be deleted unless I reregister them. When I registered them last time, I sent mail mail to DDB's wife Pamela and gave her the password for them, but it seems they either don't know time is up, or they didn't reregister it themselves. (I registered it under DDB's name.) To reregister it for them -- they seem terribly slow to do so -- I need the file to guide me through the process, and the number of our local area coordinator. For the time being, YOU'RE our local area coordinator, right? So I use Butter's address? Worry to bug you, and I'll sure miss you and your board. Cate --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 * Origin: Bitter Butter Better BBS, Tualatin OR, 503-691-7938 (1:105/290) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAA00002 Date: 06/05/96 From: CATHERINE VANICEK Time: 04:17am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: FWD: Murder on the Internet (June) [1/6]04:17:5706/05/96 >>> Part 1 of 6... Okay, Everyone, Here comes June's issue of Murder on the Internet. Hope that at least some of you find it of use. Cate == Forwarded Message Follows ========================================= * Originally By: UUCP, of (105/330) * Originally To: Catherine Vanicek * Originally Re: FWD: Murder on the Internet (June) * Original Date: 31 May 96 11:08 * Original Area: Fidonet mail (Personal) * Forwarded by : Blue Wave/386 v2.30 MURDER ON THE INTERNET Mystery News from the Ballantine Publishing Group - Number 22 (June 1996) - After a killer frost one week and record-breaking ninety-degree heat the next, it appears that summer is upon us. And summer means mysteries by the pool, at the beach, in the yard, and even in the comfort of our own homes. This issue of MURDER ON THE INTERNET will lead you to books for any location, as well as an interview with Edgar Award-winner Julie Smith; a focus on Jill McGown and her mysteries; and an excerpt from Robert Cullen's new book, DISPATCH FROM A COLD COUNTRY. I hope you enjoy this issue of MURDER ON THE INTERNET, wherever you may be! WHAT'S NEW IN THE STORES----------------------------------------- DOUBLE JEOPARDY by William Bernhardt Ballantine paperback From the best-selling author of the JUSTICE/Ben Kincaid novels: a non-series race-against-time thriller about a case of mistaken identity that sets an innocent man on the run. RAINBOW'S END by Martha Grimes Ballantine paperback In this latest Richard Jury novel -- the sequel to THE HORSE YOU CAME IN ON -- three apparently unconnected deaths in Great Britain lead the Chief Superintendent to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The journey culminates in greed, mayhem, and more murder. IF WISHES WERE HORSES... by Tim Hemlin Ballantine paperback The launch of a Texas-set murder mystery series positioned in the twin worlds of academe and cuisine. Neil Marshall, the protagonist, is a graduate student who moonlights as a chef -- and (in order to save his own skin) as an amateur sleuth. DON'T LOOK DOWN by Tima Smith Ballantine paperback A pilot/jump instructor and his ex-wife get entangled with smuggling, murder, and each other in this action-packed adventure novel. THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS by Julie Smith Fawcett hardcover In her latest crusade, New Orleans detective Skip Langdon hopes to save the lives of two teenage girls caught up in the cult of preacher-turned-mayoral-candidate Errol Jacomine. Trying to link the evil Jacomine to the murder of his press secretary and the disappearance of the girls, Langdon marches right into the path of a hurricane in her search for clues. A SHRED OF EVIDENCE by Jill McGown Fawcett hardcover In their seventh appearance, Detective Judy Hill and her boss, Inspector Lloyd, team up to unearth a scandal involving adolescent passion and obsession that leaves a local teenager dead and shakes the whole community. DEATH ON THE DIAGONAL by Carolyn Banks Fawcett paperback When equestrienne Robin Vaughan and her husband Jeet notice that something isn't quite right about their new picket-fence town, their reckless and unwanted questions lead to trouble...and murder. RIVER by Roderick Thorp Ivy paperback A novelization of the real-life Green River killings, RIVER follows two men on a parallel course -- one, Garrett Richard Lockman, is a manipulative, psychopathic serial killer who enjoys terrorizing the Northwest; the other, Detective Philip Boudreau, stalks Lockman for eight years before administering the kind of justice that law enforcement and the legal system failed to do. DEATH OF A TRAVELLING MAN by M.C. Beaton Ivy paperback Hamish Macbeth, the charming Scottish sergeant, is in a quandary when a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy is killed in his village. With no one volunteering even a scrap of information, Hamish sets about the delicate work of worming the facts out of his friends and neighbors -- one of whom, he grudgingly admits, may be the killer. SUMMER/FALL PREVIEW---------------------------------------------- June books --Fawcett-- DISPATCH FROM A COLD COUNTRY by Robert Cullen Washington, D.C., newspaperman Colin Burke travels to Russia to solve the disappearance of a young reporter, only to discover the story she was working on could lead to the collapse of the fragile Russian government. This is Cullen's third Colin Burke mystery; 449-91258-2 Hardcover, 416 pp. A PURPLE PLACE FOR DYING by John D. MacDonald In the third book of the famous Travis McGee series, the Florida detective is summoned to Arizona by a wealthy woman looking for help in divorcing her husband; 449-45611-0 Paperback, 250 pp. A FLUSH OF SHADOWS by Kate Wilhelm Five novellas featuring the husband and wife team of psychologist Constance Leidl and arson investigator Charlie Meiklejohn; 449-22434-1 Paperback, 350 pp. >>> Continued to next message... --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 * Origin: Bitter Butter Better BBS, Tualatin OR, 503-691-7938 (1:105/290) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAA00003 Date: 06/05/96 From: CATHERINE VANICEK Time: 04:14am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: FWD: Murder on the Internet (June) [2/6]04:14:3306/05/96 >>> Part 2 of 6... HIGH ISLAND BLUES by Ann Cleeves George Palmer-Jones travels to a bird sanctuary in the upper Texas Gulf Coast marshes to help clear a friend of murder, while his wife Molly stays behind to do some sleuthing in England. This is the seventh installment of the birdwatching mystery series; 449-14979-X Paperback, 250 pp. --Ivy-- HOUSE OF BLUES by Julie Smith New Orleans detective Skip Langdon uncovers more than she bargains for when she investigates the brutal murder of a famous restauranteur; 8041-1342-4 Paperback, 360 pp.