MURDER-GO-ROUND: REVIEWS BY HARRIET KLAUSNER

Harriet Klausner, was chosen the number one reader in the entire USA by BOOK Magazine. What does that mean to you? She reads constantly and knows what's out there and wants to let you know, too. Read on for tips to great books from the wonder reader Harriet Klausner.


Check her new column in FMAM's hardcopy magazine entitled "Murder-Go-Round by Harriet Klausner."

I was born in the Bronx where I obtained a Masters in Library Science. My thesis topic was the Impact of Science Fiction Reading by High School Seniors on Standardized Reading Scores. I met my spouse Stan when he read my palm in a Bronx outdoor cafe.

After being married for seven months, we moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where I worked in the local bookstore. Our only child was born just outside the city on the same day as the Three Mile Island "meltdown" began. A few months later, we moved to Massachusetts where I worked in a small used book store that catered to fans of horror and science fiction. Ultimately we moved to Georgia where we currently live.

There I have worked with the library and found an acquisition job in a bookstore. I also started my book reviewing career here. I have always been a big fan of fiction. My favorite books span most genres. I enjoy a heated romance, especially written by the Sandras - Chastain and Brown. I love science fiction and fantasy when the realm feels real. Horror is entertaining to me when the vampires seem as if they are another living (dead?) species. Koontz remains my king.

However, I particularly take pleasure from almost all the sub-genres of mystery to include comic books starring Batman and Ms. Tree. I do not enjoy non-fiction, especially biographies (Boring) or most westerns. Being a hyper-speed-reader (as my husband calls me), I sometimes read two-three novels in a day. I enjoy writing a short synopsis of what I read and evaluate the tale. I take immense pleasure telling other readers about newcomers or unknown authors who have written superb novels. Finally, my husband has told me that my epitaph will read "Give me literature or give me death."

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May 2007

A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
A Killer's Stitch by Maggie Sefton
A Killing In Comics by Max Allan Collins
Always by Nicola Griffith
At the Edge by Cait London
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
Blood Ties by Judith E. French
Cat in a Red Hot Rage by Carole Nelson Douglas
Dreaming the Serpent Spear by Manda Scott
Fat Free and Fatal by G.A. McKevett
Free Fire by C.J. Box
Halfway to Half Way by Suzann Ledbetter
Here She Lies by Kate Pepper
In the Woods by Tana French
Invisible Prey by John Sandford
Kept by D.J. Taylor
Organize Your Corpses by Mary Jane Maffini
Poisoned Petals by Joyce and Jim Lavene
Revenge of Innocents by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Saturnalia by Lindsey Davis
Stone Rain by Linwood Barclay
Swapping Paint by Joyce and Jim Lavene
The Arrangement by Suzanne Forster
The Edict by Bob Cupp
The First Stone by Judith Kelman
The Jericho Pact by Rachel Lee
The Overlook by Michael Connelly
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
The Screaming Room by Thomas O’Callaghan
The Three Motives for Murder by Michelle Perry
Tumbling Blocks by Earlene Fowler
Virtually His by Gennita Low

April 2007

Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson
The Alibi Man by Tami Hoag
All Jacked Up by Penny McCall
Anatomy of Fear by Jonathan Santlofer
Angelica by Arthur Phillips
The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
Dark Room by Andrea Kane
Fresh Disasters by Stuart Woods
The Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood
Heartstopper by Joy Fielding
Invisible Shield by Scarlett Dean
Kingdom Come: The Final Victory by Tim LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins
The Missing by Chris Mooney
Murder of a Botoxed Blonde by Denise Swanson
Obsession by Karen Robards
The Refuge by Sue Henry
Right from the Gecko by Cynthia Baxter
The River Knows by Amanda Quick
Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert
Shadows in the White City by Robert W. Walker
Shell Game by Jeff Buck
Spanish Dagger by Susan Wittig Albert
Sparkles by Louise Bagshawe
The Sun Over Breda by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Turquoise Girl by Aimee & David Thurlo
Tutu Deadly by Natalie M. Roberts
Unholy Grail by D.L. Wilson
What's A Ghoul to Do? by Victoria Laurie

March 2007

A Crazy Little Thing Called Death by Nancy Martin
The Assassin by Andrew Britton
At Some Disputed Barricade by Anne Perry
Blood Secrets by Vivi Anna
The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty
Capital Threat by William Bernhardt
Cat Pay the Devil by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Cover-up by Michele Martinez
Cynnador by Patrick Welch
Daddy's Girl by Lisa Scottoline
The Dead Room by Heather Graham
Deadly Advice by Roberto Isleib
Dragonwell Dead by Laura Childs
Dry Ice by Stephen White
Fortune's Fool by Mercedes Lackey
Friends in High Places by Marne Davis Kellogg
Intimate Danger by Amy J. Fetzer
Magic City by James W. Hall
Nerve Damage by Peter Abrahams
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
No Safe Place by JoAnn Ross
Restore My Heart by Cheryl Norman
Scavenger by David Morrell
Sweet and Deadly by Charlaine Harris
The Survivors by Dinah McCall
The Vandenberg Diamonds by John Russo
The Watchman by Robert Crais

February 2007

The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry
Black Monday by R. Scott Reiss
Blood Ties: Possession by Jennifer Armintrout
By the Time You Read This by Giles Blount
The Chick and the Dead by Casey Daniels
Choke Point by Jay MacLarty
Count to Ten by Karen Rose
Damage Control by Robert Dugoni
Dead Giveaway by Brenda Novak
Dead Head by Allen Wyler
Death of a Maid by M.C. Beaton
The Echelon Vendetta by David Stone
Field of Fire by James O. Born
Flesh and Bone by Jefferson Bass
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hell Hath No Curry by Tamar Myers
Hide by Lisa Gardner
High Profile by Robert B. Parker
Innocent In Death by J.D. Robb
Irish Linen by Andrew M. Greeley
The Liar's Diary by Patry Francis
The Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Most Likely To Die by Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton, Wendy Corsi Staub
Nevermore by Maureen Child
The Next Victim by Jonnie Jacobs
No Regrets by Shannon K. Butcher
Speak No Evil by Allison Brennan
Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
Water Like A Stone by Deborah Crombie
Wedgewood Grey by John Aubrey Anderson

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