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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July 2008

Abbeville by Jack Fuller
Bella by Lisa Samson
Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton
Bobbie Faye's (Kinda, Sorta, Not-Exactly) Family Jewels by Toni McGee Causey
Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais
Damned, Delicious and Dangerous by Delilah Devlin, Lisa Renee Jones, Megan Kerans
Don't Tell a Soul by David Rosenfelt
Dragon and Liberator by Timothy Zahn
Escape from Amsterdam by Barrie Sherwood
Every Secret Crime by Doug M. Cunnings
Fall with Honor by E.E. Knight
Fool on the Hill by Morgan Hunt
Getting Even by Mitzi Szereto (Editor)
Highland Fire by Hannah Howell
I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Ink and Steel by Elizabeth Bear
Jaded by Karin Tabke
Leave It to Chance by Sherri Sand
Lovehampton by Sherri Rifkin
Mage-Guard of Hamor by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Medium of Murder Edited by Susan Budavari and Suzanne Flaig
Mission Canyon by Meg Gardiner
Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva
Nights in Black Leather by Noelle Mack
Null-A Continuum by John C. Wright
Occupational Hazards by Jonathan Segura
One With the Darkness by Susan Squires
Peach Blossom Pavilion by Mingmei Yip
Phantom in the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon with Dianna Love
Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross
The Aztec Heresy by Paul Christopher
The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell
The Brimstone Murders by Jeff Sheratt
The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt
The Elite by Jennifer Banash
The Fourth Watcher by Timothy Hallinan
The Front Porch Prophet by Raymond L. Atkins
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
The Night Bird by Catherine Asaro
The Time Engine by Sean McMullen
Too Little, Too Late by Victoria Christopher Murray
Trio by P.F. Kozak, Devyn Quinn, Jane Ledger
Tumbleweed by Jane Candia Coleman
Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren
Washington's Lady by Nancy Moser
We All Fall Down by Simon Wood
What She Wants by Cathy Kelly

June 2008

A Fatal Waltz by Tasha Alexander
America the Beautiful by Laura Hayden
August Moon by Jess Lourey
Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton
Blue Smoke and Murder by Elizabeth Lowell
Chernobyl Murders by Michael Beres
China Lake by Meg Gardiner
Cold Plague by Daniel Kalla
Delusion by Peter Abrahams
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
High Marks for Murder by Rebecca Kent
Killing Bridezilla by Laura Levine
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
No One Left to Tell by Jordon Dane
Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell
Nothing to Lose by Lee Child
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
Old Flames by Jack Ketchum
Paint it Black by Michelle Perry
Scream For Me by Karen Rose
Shadow of Light by James E. Cherry
Shadow of Power by Steve Martini
Spectre by Phaedra Weldon
The Betrayal by Kathleen O’Neal Geer and W. Michael Geer
The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
The Dark of Day by Barbara Parker
The Dirty Secrets Club by Meg Gardiner
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The Julius House by Charlaine Harris
The Murder Notebook by Jonathan Santlofer
The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds
The Prodigal Nun by Aimee and David Thurlo
The Reapers by John Connolly
The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending by Jon Land
The Whole Truth by David Baldacci
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

May 2008

A Dog Among Diplomats by J. F. Englert
A River To Die For by Radine Trees Nehring
Blood Trail by C.J. Box
By Reason Of Insanity by Randy Singer
Careless in Red by Elizabeth George
Clubbed to Death by Elaine Viets
Cruel Zinc Melodies by Glen Cook
Dawn’s Light by Terri Blackstock
Dying Breath by Wendy Corsi Staub
Flight to Freedom by D.J. Wilson
Free Fall by Laura Anne Gilman
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
If You Ever Tell by Carlene Thompson
In a Dark Season by Vicki Lane
Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon
Lost Prince by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Murder Can Crash Your Party by Selma Eichler
Perfect Poison by Joyce and Jim Lavene
Phantom Prey by John Sandford
Poisoned Tarts by G.A. McKevett
Sister Pellagia and the Black Monk by Boris Akunin
Streets of Fire by Troy Soos
The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli
The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur
The Edge of Reason by Melinda Snodgrass
The Ghost and the Femme Fatale by Alice Kimberly
The Hollow by Nora Roberts
The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes
The Vampire’s Betrayal by Raven Hart
The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo
Twisted by Andrea Kane
What Burns Within by Sandra Ruttan
Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark

April 2008

Avalanche by Patrick F. McManus
Bad Blood by L.A. Banks
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana by Anne Rice
Corpse Pose by Diana Killian
Daughter of York by Anna Easter Smith
Death Walked In by Carolyn Hart
French Pressed by Cleo Coyle
Getting Away Is Deadly by Sara Rosett
God's Spy by Juan Gomez-Jurado
Guilty by Karen Robards
House of Whispers by Margaret Lucke
In the Earth Abides the Flame by Russell Kirkpatrick
Judas Horse by April Smith
Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson
Matter by Iain M. Banks
Murder Is Binding by Lorna Barrett
Murder of a Chocolate Covered Cherry by Denise Swanson
Nightshade by Susan Wittig Albert
No One Heard Her Scream by Jordan Dane
People of the Weeping Eye by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear
Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong
Poison Pen by Sheila Lowe
Poison Sleep by T.A. Pratt
Random Victim by Michael A. Black
Santa Fe Dead by Stuart Woods
Separated at Death by Sheldon Rusch
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
Smoke & Mirrors by John Ramsey Miller
South of Shiloh by Chuck Logan
The Amateur Spy by Dan Fesperman
The Atlantis Prophesy by Thomas Greanias
The Bible of Clay by Julia Navarro
The Crystal Skull by Manda Scott
The Dark Lantern by Gerri Brightwell
The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
The Genius by Jesse Kellerman
The Hunted by Rachel Lee
The Orpheus Deception by David Stone
The Rosetta Key by William Dietrich
The Third Circle by Amanda Quick
Wicked City by Ace Atkins
Winter Study by Nevada Barr

March 2008

A Flaw in the Blood by Stephanie Barron
Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman
Betrayed by J.M. Windle
Biting the Bullet by Jennifer Rardin
Black Widow by Randy Wayne White
Blasphemy by Douglas J. Preston
Blind Fall by Christopher Rice
Bone Song by John Meaney
Calumet City by Charlie Newton
Carrot Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Charley’s Web by Joy Fielding
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
Daughter of York by Anna Easter Smith
Dead Heat by Joel C. Rosenberg
Dead Time by Stephen White
Delicate Chaos by Jeff Buick
Demons Are a Ghoul’s Best Friend by Victoria Laurie
Duma Key by Stephen King
Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder
Freefall by JoAnn Ross
Guns Will Keep Us Together by Leslie Langtry
House of Cards by C.E. Murphy
Killer Heat by Linda A. Fairstein
Lifelines by C.J. Lyons
Murder Melts in Your Mouth by Nancy Martin
Shadow Waltz by Amy Patricia Meade
The Accident Man by Tom Cain
The Dark Lantern by Gerri Brightwell
The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross
The Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang
The Invisible by Andrew Britton
The Magdalene Chronicles by Suzen Wuerth
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black

February 2008

A Bone To Pick by Charlaine Harris
As The World Churns by Tamar Myers
Betrayal by John Lescroart
Chile Con Corpses by J.B. Stanley
Cutting Loose by Tara Janzen
Final Curtain by R. T. Jordan
Ghost of a Chance by Kate Marsh
Hand of Evil by J.A. Jance
Hooked Up by Joyce and Jim Lavene
Ice Trap by Kitty Sewell
Killer Mousse by Melinda Wells
L.A. Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker
Last Call by James Grippando
Midnight Reign by Chris Marie Green
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris
Shadow Music by Julie Garwood
Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno
Stranger in Paradise by Robert B. Parker
Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb
The Abyssinian Proof by Jenny White
The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone
The Deadliest Strain by Jan Coffey
The First Patient by Michael Palmer
The Ghost War by Alex Berenson
The Murder Game by Beverly Barton
The Poisoner of Ptah by P.C. Doherty
The Purrfect Murder by Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
The Shanghai Tunnel by Sharan Newman
The Thieves of Faith by Richard Doetsch
Thugs and Kisses by Sue Ann Jaffarian
Thunder Moon by Lori Handeland
Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis
Wash and Die by Barbara Colley
Wild Inferno by Sandi Ault

January 2008

A Bucket of Ashes by P.B. Ryan
A Rush of Wings by Adrian Phoenix
Across The Face Of The World by Russell Kirkpatrick
Another One Bites The Dust by Jennifer Rardin
Beverly Hills Dead by Stuart Woods
Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky
Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper
Capitol Conspiracy by William Bernhardt
Death Song by Michael McGarrity
Dragon Harper by Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey
Getting Old is to Die For by Rita Lakin
Grounds for Murder by Sandra Balzo
Half the Blood of Brooklyn by Charlie Huston
Keepers of the Flame by Robin D. Owens
Monday Night Jihad by Jason Elam & Steve Yohn
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance by Gyles Brandreth
Robert Ludlam's The Arctic Event by James Cobb
Salt River by James Sallis
Sizzle and Burn by Jayne Ann Krentz
Solemnly Swear by Nancy Moser
State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy
Stone Cold by David Baldacci
Strike the Dragon by Charles Dyer and Mark Tobey
Sucker Bet by Erin McCarthy
The Book of Old Houses by Sarah Graves
The Crazy School by Cornelia Read
The Devil’s Footprints by John Burnside
The Good Liar by Laura Caldwell
The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
The Serpent’s Daughter by Suzanne Arruda
The Serpent’s Tale by Ariana Franklin
Touchstone by Laurie R. King
Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom

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