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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December 2007

A Rose from the Dead by Kate Collins
A Time to Die by Beverly Barton
Another Side of Midnight by Mia Zachary
Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts
Borne In Blood by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Dead Men Don’t Get the Munchies by Miranda Bliss
Deadly Shoals by Joan Druett
Divorced, Desperate and Delicious by Christie Craig
Killer Focus by Fiona Brand
Killer Knots by Nancy J. Cohen
Knitting Bones by Monica Ferris
Let Me In by John Ajvide Lindquist
Mark’s Story by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
Midnight Awakening by Lara Adrian
New Slain Knight by Deborah Gabrien
Not Quite Dead by John Maclachlan Gray
On the Loose by Tara Janzen
Preaching to the Corpse by Roberta Isleib
Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
Saint City Sinners by Lilith Saintcrow
Skate Crimes by Alina Adams
Standard of Honor by Jack Whyte
T Is for Trespass by Sue Grafton
The Down Home Zombie Blues by Linnea Sinclair
The Murderers' Club by P.D. Martin
The Sword of Venice by Thomas Quinn
The Watcher by Jeanne C Stein
Third Degree by Greg Iles
Third Strike by Phillip R. Craig & William G. Tapply
Under Vesuvius by John Maddox Roberts
Vendetta by Meredith Fletcher
Wind Follower by Carole Mcdonnell

November 2007

A Carol for a Corpse by Claudia Bishop
A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill
A Murderous Glaze by Melissa Glazer
A Prayer for the Damned by Peter Tremayne
Accessory to Murder by Elaine Viets
All Shots by Susan Conant
Bang Bang by Theo Gangi
Beware False Profits by Emilie Richards
Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning
Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson
Bowled Over by Kasey Michaels
Chat by Archie Mayor
Creation In Death by J.D. Robb
Dance with the Dragon by David Hagberg
DeadFall by Robert Liparulo
Empyre by Josh Conviser
Fatal Feng Shui by Leslie Caine
In for the Kill by John Lutz
Jump Cut by Max Allan Collins
Mark’s Story by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
Naked Addiction by Caitlin Rother
Norway to Hide by Maddy Hunter
Out-Foxed by Debra Webb
Paying the Piper by Simon Wood
Redemption by Lee Jackson
Shadow Lake by B.J. Daniels
Shrouds of Holly by Kate Kingsbury
Sweetheart Deal by Claire Matturro
The Crafty Teddy by John J. Lamb
The Last Secret of the Temple by Paul Sussman
The Ransom by Maggie Price
The Tomb of Zeus by Barbara Cleverly
Unmanned by Lois Greiman
Who is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall
Why Mermaids Sing by C.S. Harris

October 2007

Beg For Mercy by Toni Andrews
Blood Eagle by Robert Barr Smith
Blue Justice by Illona Haus
Die for Me by Karen Rose
Empire Rising by Sam Barone
Fools Rush In by Ed Gorman
Ha'penny by Jo Walton
Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict
Midnight Rambler by James Swain
Perfidia by Elspeth McKendrick
Revenant by Carolyn Haines
Sword of God by Chris Kuzneski
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
The Bone Man by Vicki Stiefel
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon
The Secret Cardinal by Tom Grace
The Vampire Shrink by Lynda Hilburn
Who’s Kitten Who? by Cynthia Baxter
Written in Bone by Simon Beckett

September 2007

A Perfect Game by Rick Mofina
Antiques Maul by Barbara Allan
Crime Seen by Victoria Laurie
Crusade by Robyn Young
Dark of the Moon by John Sandford
Dead Heat by Dick Frances and Felix Francis
Face Down O’er the Border by Kathy Lynn Emerson
Goodbye, Dolly by Deb Baker
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
Hook, Line & Homicide by Mark Richard Zubro
Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Invasive Procedures by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston
Patriot Acts by Greg Rucka
Rebel Island by Rick Riordan
Red Sea by Emily Benedek
Stolen in the Night by Patricia MacDonald
Strip Search by William Bernhardt
Sweet Revenge by Diane Matt Davidson
The Alehouse Murders by Maureen Ash
The Betrayed by Lisa T. Bergren
The Bloody Tower by Carola Dunn
The Girl with Braided Hair by Margaret Coel
The Hades Project by Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore
The Next Killing by Rebecca Drake
The Sunrise Lands by S.M. Stirling
The Way Life Should Be by Terry Shaw
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
Trashed by Alison Gaylin
Walla Walla Suite (A Room with No View) by Anne Argula
When She Was Bad by Jonathan Nasaw

August 2007

A Few Good Murders by Cady Kalian
A Secret Rage by Charlaine Harris
Acts of Nature by Jonathan King
Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Cruise & Bob Mover
Almost Dead by Lisa Jackson
Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter
Capitol Offense by Mike Doogan
Cast In Secret by Michelle Sagara
Critical by Robin Cook
Dark Places by Linda Ladd
Dead Copy by Kit Frazier
Dead Right by Brenda Novak
Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
Grave Apparel by Ellen Byerrum
Kilt Dead by Kaitlyn Dunnett
Last Breath by George D. Shuman
Malice by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Play Dirty by Sandra Brown
Scorched by Rachel Butler
'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy by Leslie Langtry
The Concrete Maze by Steven Torres
The First Commandment by Brad Thor
The Genesis Code by Christopher Forrest
The Lost by Michelle Hancock
The Sanctuary by Raymond Khoury
The Seventh Sacrament by David Hewson
Touch of Darkness by Christina Dodd
Up Close and Dangerous by Linda Howard
Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand by Fred Vargas

July 2007

A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish
A Welcome Grave by Michael Koryta
Blood Red by Heather Graham
Brush with Death by Hailey Lind
Circumference of Darkness by Jack Henderson
Codename: Bikini by Christina Skye
Dark Truth by Lindsay McKenna
Dead Connection by Alafair Burke
Death By Sudoku by Kaye Morgan
Eye of the Beholder by David Ellis
Good Guy by Dean Koontz
Ham Bones by Carolyn Haines
High Noon by Nora Roberts
Justice Denied by J.A. Jance
Killer Weekend by Ridley Pearson
Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants by Lee Goldberg
No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong
On the Fifth Day by A.J. Hartley
Raintree: Sanctuary by Beverly Barton
Short Change by Patricia Smiley
The Cleaner by Brett Battles
The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz
The Dead Whisper On by T.L. Hines
The Death List by Paul Johnston
The Ever-Running Man by Marcia Muller
The Fire Opal by Catherine Asaro
The Hellfire Conspiracy by Will Thomas
The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli
The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva
The Summit by Kat Martin
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger

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