Mystery/Thriller Book Reviews
Page One of FiveThe Cat Who Saw Stars by Lillian Jackson Braun
Putnam, Jan., 1999.Hardcover, 227 pages.
ISBN: 0399144315.
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Lillian Jackson Braun has added a fresh new X-Files type element to her long-running series, with great success. The characters are quirky, Quilleran is curious, and the cats are charming as ever. As Quill makes his rounds of the town while looking into the various mysteries of the day and writing his weekly column for the Moose County Something, the atmosphere gets stranger and more entertaining as events unfold. With a surprise ending and more verve than the last entry (The Cat Who Sang for the Birds), this tale shows Braun at her very best.
--Claire E. White
Buck Naked by Joyce Burditt
Ballantine Books, July, 1998.Paperback, 284 pages.
ISBN: 0345401379.
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Buck Naked is a hilarious send-up of the inside world of making a television show. The monumental egos, the crazy producers and the mysterious studio heads are all caricatured here, with very funny results. Dutch is an offbeat and likeable heroine, and holds the reader's interest whether she's arguing with her mother in the middle of an earthquake or warding off the unwanted attentions of the show's star. Let's hope Dutch's next adventure also occurs in Hollywood -- the author knows her way around the set and her riffs on how television writers come up with storylines are hilarious.
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