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Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger,
Grove Press, 2001 - Reviewed by Richard J. McGowan
Award-winning Peace Like a River is leisurely storytelling
at its best. Reuben Land, an asthmatic eleven year-old,
recounts his midwestern family and bears witness to faithful
love.
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Down the Darkest Road, by Tami Hoag,
Penguin, 2011 - Reviewed by Larry W. Riggs
Tami Hoag's new novel includes some of the best writing and most
acute psychological analysis I have seen in popular fiction. Four
years after the disappearance and, almost certainly, the murder of
her . . .
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Left for Dead, by J. A. Jance,
Touchstone, 2012 - Reviewed by Larry W. Riggs
I must revise what I said in my review of Jance's previous book:
she is both a good writer and an excellent storyteller. Jance's
smooth handling of the complications in the new Ali Reynolds novel
synthesizes plotting and writing. The seemingly unrelated, but
ultimately convergent, stories, each beginning with a character
being left for dead, . . .
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