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Hannah Durkin
Rave The Denver Post An extraordinary story ... With her research and her sympathetic writing, Durkin has rescued the survivors of the Clotilda from such ignominy. The Survivors of the Clotilda is a gripping account of one of the most despicable events in U.S. history.
Peter Heller
Positive The Denver Post It’s a good story that’s intertwined like leaves afloat in a river with the current of Heller’s descriptive powers ... Simple but powerful.
Stephanie Barron
Rave The Denver Post Barron’s delightful writing, her characters and the twists and turns of their relationships, and the colorful Regency setting, by themselves, are enough to carry the book ... the mysteries just get better and better. So, good reader, with gratitude to the author, enjoy this charming addition to the most excellent Jane Austen mystery series. You have done it again, Miss Barron, and we are in your debt.
Peter Heller
Positive Denver Post The Guide is not really a mystery, nor is it an outdoor guide. It is a literary work and a paean to fishing, as inspiring as A River Runs Through It. Heller is poetic when he describes what fishing means to Jack ... At times, the story is overblown, and Jack becomes something of an action figure, but those are minor criticisms. The Guide is a beautifully written book, a tribute to Colorado, its bounty and its ability to heal the soul.
E.J. Levy
Rave The Denver Post The Cape Doctor is based on the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, born Margaret Anne Bulkley in 1795 in Cork, Ireland. A prominent physician and surgeon who performed the first successful cesarian operation, Barry was discovered to be a woman only after he died. He had left instructions that he was not to be undressed before burial, but the order was ignored. Some claimed the body showed Barry had had a child. Not much is known about Barry, which is just as well, because that allows author E.J. Levy, a Colorado State University professor, the freedom to create an irrepressible character in Perry ... The story is a good one, but it is the exquisite writing and the portrayal of women in the first half of the 19th century that make The Cape Doctor such an intriguing book.
Nick Arvin
Positive The Denver Post You have to love a book that starts like this: A cow falls through the roof of a house, landing on Mother. She dies, but her voice lives on. This book has it all...gripping battlefield scenes and descriptions of poverty and greed, along with bags of purloined gold coins and the bombardment of Fort McHenry, while somebody is writing a poem that will become the national anthem. Despite its sparseness, “Mad Boy” is a complicated tale filled with a cast of a dozen characters. Mad Boy is a finely honed literary achievement...and as clever as it is memorable.
C. J. Box
Positive The Denver Post \"...the latest in Box’s best-selling series, is a tightly crafted story with a sense of place. Box makes you smell that sawmill burner and feel the cold of a Wyoming blizzard as Pickett struggles through the snow to solve the mystery of Cowboy Kate.\