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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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Murder-Go-Round: Reviews by Harriet Klausner

March 2010

Able One by Ben Bova
Antiques Bizarre by Barbara Allan
Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison
Blood Vines by Erica Spindler
Capitol Betrayal by William Bernhardt
Cook the Books by Jessica Conant-Parks and Susan Conant
Dark Secrets of the Old Oak Tree by Dolores J. Wilson
Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White
Do They Know I’m Running? by David Corbett
False Mermaid by Erin Hart
Feathered Serpent 2012 by Junius Podrug
Flirt by Laurell K. Hamilton
Forget Me Not by Vicki Hinze
From the Grounds Up by Sandra Balzo
Ghouls Gone Wild by Victoria Laurie
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Live to Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub
Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard
Night Tides by Alex Prentiss
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
Our Lady of Immaculate Deception by Nancy Martin
Plaster and Poison by Jennie Bentley
Pretty in Ink by Karen E. Olson
Red Inferno: 1945 by Robert Conroy
Safer by Sean Doolittle
Shattered by Karen Robards
The Brain Thief by Alexander Jablokov
The Intrigue at Highbury or Emma’s March by Carrie Bebris
The Last Illusion by Rhys Bowen
The Serialist by David Gordon
The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz
The Teabury Strangler by Laura Childs
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
The Wild Zone by Joy Fielding
The Winter Thief by Jenny White
Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline
Warriors by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Wild Laws by Jim Hanson
Wild Ride by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
You Can’t Stop Me by Max Allan Collins and Matthew Clemens

February 2010

A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
A Dog at Sea by J.F. Englert
A Night Too Dark by Dana Stabenow
A Stitch in Crime by Betty Hechtman
Black Rain by Graham Brown
Blood Ties by Kay Hooper
Diary of a Confessions Queen by Kathy Carmichael
Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb
Foolproof by Barbara D'Amato, Jeanne M. Dams, Mark Richard Zubro
Hold On Tight by Stephanie Tyler
How to Host a Killer Party by Penny Warner
If Books Could Kill by Kate Carlisle
Last Snow by Eric Lustbader
Sizzle by Julie Garwood
Sleeping with Anemone by Kate Collins
Split Image by Robert B. Parker
SPQR XIII: The Year of Confusion by John Maddox Roberts
State of Decay by James Knapp
Stolen Seduction by Elisabeth Naughton
The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming
The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer
The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
The Midnight House by Alex Berenson
The Proof Is in the Pudding by Melinda Wells
The Red Door by Charles Todd
The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
Thereby Hangs a Tail by Spencer Quinn
This Is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams
Too Hot to Hold by Stephanie Tyler
Treasure Hunt by John Lescroart
Victim Six by Gregg Olsen
Wicked Craving by G.A. McKevett
Wild Penance by Sandi Ault

January 2010

Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig
Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
Crawlspace by Sarah Graves
Dead Air by Mary Kennedy
Death of a Valentine by M.C. Beaton
Deeper than the Dead by Tami Hoag
Double Trouble by Susan May Warren
Dusted to Death by Barbara Colley
Fired Up by Jayne Ann Krentz
Heat Wave by Richard Castle
Hunting Julian by Jacquelyn Frank
Impact by Douglas Preston
Iron River by T. Jefferson Parker
Jaclyn The Ripper by Karl Alexander
Kitty’s House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn
Let Darkness Come by Angela Hunt
Merry Wives of Maggody by Joan Hess
Shadows From the Past by Lindsay McKenna
Sleepless by Charlie Huston
Stirring Up Strife by Jennifer Stanley
The Darkness by Jason Pinter
The First Rule by Robert Crais
The 5 Greatest Warriors by Matthew Reilly
The Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry
The Puzzle Lady vs. the Sudoku Lady by Parnell Hall
The Rook by Steven James
The Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins
Who Killed the Pinup Queen? by Toni L.P. Kelner

December 2009

A Catered Birthday Party by Isis Crawford
An Echo In The Bone by Diana Gabaldon
Body in the Sleigh by Katherine Hall Page
Bound To Shadows by Keri Arthur
Breathless by Dean Koontz
Bryant & May On The Loose by Christopher Fowler
Dead and Kicking by Wendy Roberts
Dial H for Hitchcock by Susan Kandel
Divine Misdemeanors by Laurel K. Hamilton
Dying Scream by Mary Burton
Eggs Benedict Arnold by Laura Childs
First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher
Forty-eight X: The Lemuria Project by Barry Pollack
Haunting Jordan by P.J. Alderman
Hidden Empire by Orson Scott Card
Holly and Homicide by Leslie Caine
Ice by Linda Howard
Immortal by V.K. Forrest
Murder Had a Little Lamb by Cynthia Baxter
Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie
Stuff to Spy For by Don Bruns
Tempted by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
The Crisis by David Poyer
The Disciple by Stephen Coonts
The Gate House by Nelson DeMille
The Hidden by Tobias Hill
The Mirror and the Mask by Ellen Hart
The Morning Show Murders by Al Roker & Dick Lochte
The Tomb of Hercules by Andy McDermott
The White Garden by Stephanie Barron
Too Many Murders by Colleen McCullough
Trial by Fire by J. A. Jance
True Blue by David Baldacci
U Is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Untraceable by Laura Griffin
Vampire Sunrise by Carole N. Douglas
Wyatt's Revenge by H. Terrell Griffin

November 2009

Abandoned by Cody McFadyen
All the Wrong Moves by Merline Lovelace
Black Friday by Alex Kava
Cat Striking Back by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Council of the Cursed by Peter Tremayne
Decked with Folly by Kate Kingsbury
Earthway by Aimee and David Thurlo
Holiday Grind by Cleo Coyle
Huckleberry Finished by Livia J. Washburn
Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb
Mariposa by Greg Bear
May Earth Rise by Holly Taylor
Merry, Merry Ghost by Carolyn Hart
Mrs. Jeffries and the Yuletide Wedding by Emily Brightwell
Nine Dragons by Michael Connolly
Primitive by Mark Nykanen
Queene of Light by Jennifer Armintrout
The Asylum Prophecies by Daniel Keyes
The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw
The Cart Before the Corpse by Carolyn McSparren
The Concubine’s Daughter by Pai Kit Fai
The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin
The End of the Road by Sue Henry
The Fall of Eden by Richard Michaels
The Fury by Jason Pinter
The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland
The Perfect Murder by Brenda Novak
The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill
The Wrecker by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
To Know Evil by Stephen Gaspar
Traffyck by Michael Beres
Unhallowed Ground by Heather Graham
What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris

October 2009

13 1/2 by Nevada Barr
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory
A Wee Christmas Homicide by Kaitlyn Dunnett
Acts Of Mercy by Mariah Stewart
Angel Time by Anne Rice
Cursed to Death by L.A. Banks
Dark Road Rising by P. N. Elrod
Dexter by Design by Jeff Lindsay
Dracula: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning
Elvis and the Grateful Dead by Peggy Webb
Evidence of Murder by Lisa Black
Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong
Hell's Kitchen Homicide by Charles Kipp
I Scream, You Scream by Wendy Lyn Watson
In Their Blood by Sharon Potts
Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie
Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke
Risk by Colin Harrison
Sink Trap by Christy Evans
Skin Medicine by Tim Curran
The Chocolate Cupid Killings by JoAnna Carl
The Night Monster by James Swain
The Ninth Daughter by Barbara Hamilton
The Rock & Roll Queen of Bedlam by Marilee Brothers
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
The War After Armageddon by Ralph Peters
There Goes the Bride by M.C. Beaton
Tragic Magic by Laura Childs
When A Man Loves A Weapon by Toni McGee Causey

Spetember 2009

Doom with a View by Victoria Laurie
Civil Twilight by Susan Dunlap
Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
Cold Midnight by Joyce Lamb
Crush by Alan Jacobson
Damnable by Hank Schwaeble
Drawn in Blood by Andrea Kane
Ghastly Glass by Joyce and Jim Lavene
Ground Zero by F. Paul Wilson
Hardball by Sara Paretsky
Heaven’s Keep by William Kent Kreuger
Hot House Orchid by Stuart Woods
In the Guise of Mercy by Wendy Hornsby
Larceny and Lace by Annette Blair
Meltdown by Chuck Holton
Reclaim My Life by Cheryl Norman
Shamrock Alley by Ronald Damien Malfi
Silent Killer by Beverly Barton
Spire by Richard North Patterson
The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Hidden Man by David Ellis
The Justice Game by Randy Singer
The Silent Spirit by Margaret Coel
The Tale of Applebeck Orchard by Susan Wittig Albert
Treasure of the Golden Cheetah by Suzanne Arruda
Walking Dead by C. E. Murphy

August 2009

Alpha Female by April Christofferson
Black Hills by Nora Roberts
Boston Scream Pie by Rosemary & Larry Mild
Burn by Linda Howard
Cornered by Brandon Massey
Drawing In The Dust by Zoe Klein
Dust To Dust byBeverly Connor
Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
Greedy Bones by Carolyn Haines
Guardian of Lies by Steve Martini
Hot Pursuit by Suzanne Brockmann
House Secrets by Mike Lawson
Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson
Murder on a Midsummer Night by Kerry Greenwood
No Mercy by John Gilstrap
Plague of Secrets by John Lescroart
President Lincoln's Secret by Steven Wilson
Purses and Poison by Dorothy Howell
Relentless by Dean Koontz
Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen
Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell
Storm Cycle by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen
The Bone Factory by Nate Kenyon
The Calling by David Mack
The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Defector by Daniel Silva
The Doomsday Key by James Rollins
The Hidden Man by David Ellis
The Magician's Death by Paul Doherty
The Memory Collectors by Meg Gardiner
The Missing Ink by Karen E. Olson
The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford
The Shimmer by David Morrell
The Unscratchables by Cornelius Kane
Undone by Karin Slaughter
War Games: Kill Zone by Vicki Hinze
Where There’s a Witch by Madelyn Alt
Whiskey Gulf by Clyde Ford
Working Stiff by Annelise Ryan

July 2009

206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan
Bundle of Trouble by Diana Orgain
Cast in Silence by Michelle Sagara
Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson
Even Money by Dick Francis and Felix Francis
Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay
Hitler’s War by Harry Turtledove
Holy Bullet by Luis Miguel Rocha
I Can See You by Karen Rose
Intervention by Robin Cook
Let Sleeping Dogs Doe by Liz Wolfe
Leviathan by David L. Golemon
Liquid Diet by Michael McCarty
New Tricks by David Rosenfelt
Ravens by George Dawes Green
Sew Deadly by Elizabeth Lynn Casey
Slice of Murder by Chris Cavender
Smash Cut by Sandra Brown
Swan for the Money by Donna Andrews
The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles
The Last Ember by Daniel Levin
The Mist by Carla Neggers
The Siege by Stephen White
The Venona Cable by Brent Ghelfi
Vanished by Joseph Finder
Vanished by Kat Richardson
Whack ‘n’ Roll by Gail Oust

June 2009

A Talent for Murder by R.T. Jordan
Angel’s Advocate by Mary Stanton
Awakening by S.J. Bolton
Below Zero by C.J. Box
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Burned by David Hagberg
By Hook or By Crook by Betty Hechtman
Capture by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Dial Emmy for Murder by Eileen Davidson
Dropped Dead Stitch by Maggie Sefton
First Family by David Baldacci
Frozen Fire by Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson
Fugitive by Phillip Margolin
Gold of Kings by Davis Bunn
Knock Out by Catherine Coulter
Mr. and Miss Anonymous by Fern Michaels
Murder on Waverly Place by Victoria Thompson
Naamah’s Kiss by Jacqueline Carey
Nowhere-Land by A.W. Hill
Paper Butterfly by Diane Wei Liang
Return to Me by Christy Reece
Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver
Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey
Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton
Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder
Sworn To Silence by Linda Castillo
The City & The City by China Mieville
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
The Price of Sanctuary by Gaylon Greer
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Trust No One by Gregg Hurwitz
Walking Dead by Greg Rucka
Whispers of the Dead by Simon Beckett

May 2009

A Corpse for Yew by Joyce and Jim Lavene
A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell
Alexandria by Lindsey Davis
Blood Bayou by Karen Young
Blood from Stone by Laura Anne Gilman
Bronx Justice by Joseph Teller
Burning Alive by Shannon K. Butcher
Buyout by Alexander C. Irvine
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
Dead Before Dark by Wendy Corsi Staub
Fifty Grand by Adrian McKinty
Final Finesse by Karna Small Bodman
Flood by Stephen Baxter
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
Intent To Kill by James Grippando
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
Killer Cuts by Elaine Viets
Krapp's Last Cassette by Anne Argula
Martyr by Rory Clements
Mary Jane’s Grave by Stacy Dittrich
Never Say Sty by Linda O. Johnston
No Such Creature by Giles Blunt
Patterns in the Sand by Sally Goldenbaum
Rescue Me by Christy Reece
Sea Changes by Gail Graham
Strong Enough to Die by Jon Land
The Book Of Love by Kathleen McGowan
The Cat, The Quilt, and the Corpse by Leann Sweeney
The Devlin Diary by Christi Phillips
The Killings on Jubilee Terrace by Robert Barnard
The Last Testament by Sam Bourne
The Sign by Raymond Khoury
Wicked Prey by John Sandford
Wormwood by Susan Wittig Albert
Worst Nightmares by Shane Brian

April 2009

Afterthoughts by Lynn Tincher
All the Pretty Dead Girls by John Manning
Blue Diablo by Ann Aguirre
Borderline by Nevada Barr
Dancing on the Head of a Pin by Thomas E. Sniegoski
Dark Pursuit by Brandilyn Collins
Deadlock by Iris Johansen
Devil's Garden by Ace Atkins
Docketful of Poesy by Diane Killian
Double Minds by Terri Blackstock
Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson by Lyndsay Faye
Face of Betrayal by Lis Wiehl and April Henry
Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun by Victoria Laurie
Hounding the Pavement by Judi McCoy
Hunted by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast
Illegal by Paul Levine
In The Court of the Sun by Brian D’Amato
Loitering with Intent by Stuart Woods
Long Lost by Harlan Coben
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
Lords of Corruption by Kyle Mills
Magnolias, Moonlight, and Murder by Sara Rosett
Malice by Lisa Jackson
Mother's Day Murder by Leslie Meier
Murder of a Royal Pain by Denise Swanson
Nightwalker by Heather Graham
Notoriously Neat by Suzanne Price
Perfectly Criminal by Celeste Marsella
Plea of Insanity by Jilliane Hoffman
Run a Crooked Mile by Janet LaPierre
The Dark Volume by Gordon Dahlquist
The King’s Grace by Anne Easter Smith
The Perfect Poison by Amanda Quick
The Sacred Blood by Michael Byrnes
The Venetian Judgment by David Stone
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
Ultimatum by Matthew Glass
Unseen by Nancy Bush
Well Read and Dead by Catherine O’Connell
Whisper of Warning by Laura Griffin
Wrongful Death by Robert Dugoni

March 2009

A Drop of Red by Chris Marie Green
A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
Breach Of Trust by DiAnn Mills
Cream Puff Murder by Joanne Fluke
Cut to the Quick by Dianne Emley
Dante's Numbers by David Hewson
Dead Silence by Randy Wayne White
Deadly Charm by Claudia Mair Burney
Devil’s Gold by Julie Korzenko
Don’t Look Twice by Andrew Gross
Grave Goods by Ariana Franklin
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
Heart of Ice by Gregg Olsen
Knife Edge by David Rollins
Luke’s Story by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Made to be Broken by Kelley Armstrong
Mrs. Jeffries in the Nick of Time by Emily Brightwell
Nutcase by Charlotte Hughes
One Second After by William R. Forstchen
Oolong Dead by Laura Childs
Pain Killers by Jerry Stahl
Pursuit by Karen Robards
Safer by Sean Doolittle
Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
Still Life by Joy Fielding
Storm From the Shadows by David Weber
The Adversary by Michael Walters
The Alchemist’s Pursuit by Dave Duncan
The First Apostle by James Becker
The Girl She Used To Be by David Cristofano
The Long Fall by Walter Mosley
The Vampire’s Revenge by Raven Hart
The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler
The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
Thy Kingdom Come by Don Helin
Ulterior Motives by Mark Andrew Olson
White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison
Wild Sorrow by Sandi Ault

 

 





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