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| Happy Holidays from all of us - The Charlotte Austin Review - 3364 BobWhite Mews - Mississauga, Ontario L5N 6E7 Canada - Editor-in-Chief: Charlotte Austin - Best of 2000: Don't miss our Top 30 List of Best Reviewed Books for 2000 nominated by our reviewers and editors - -- Columns - The Art of Reviewing by Charlotte Austin - In this debut column: Book Reviewing Today From the Trenches by author Susan McBride - In this column: Lessons Learned Writing for the Big and the Little by author Natalie Buske Thomas - In this column: New COPPA legislation Feature author interviews with -
Cara Black - Author of the Aimee Leduc Mysteries set in France, Murder in the Marais and Murder in Belleville. Nancy J. Cohen - Author of The Bad Hair Day Mysteries, Permed to Death and Hair Raiser. Dianne Day - Author of the Fremont Jones series with the latest book Beacon Street Mourning. John the Eunuch - The popular toga-clad detective and Lord Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian speaks, in this exclusive interview. Lisa Kleinholz - Author of Exiles on Main Street and Dancing With Mr. D. Lee Meadows - African-American author of the Lincoln Keller Mystery series Silent Conspiracy and Silent Suspicion. Joanne Pence - Author of the Angie Amalfi mysteries A Cook in Time and To Catch a Cook. Martin J. Smith - Award-winning author, Senior Editor of The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and author of Straw Men. Gaynor Young - Talented South African actress whose life changed drastically after a tragic accident, author of the best selling autobiography My Plunge to Fame. * Interviews with Nancy J. Cohen, Dianne Day, Lisa Kleinholz, John the Eunuch, and Martin J. Smith: By author, reviewer and columnist Susan McBride. Interview with Gaynor Young: By our South African Editor Merilyn Tomkins. Interview with Jonanne Pence: By author and Mystery Editor PJ Nunn. Interviews with Cara Black and Lee E. Meadows: By author and Reviewer Phillip Tomasso III. New reviews by category -
Canadian authors - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - Reviewed by Zaheera Jiwaji - Winner of the 2000 Booker Prize for Fiction. The Danger Tree by David Macfarlane - Reviewed by Devorah Stone South African authors - Miriam's Song: A Memoir by Miriam Mathabane - Reviewed by Merilyn Tomkins. UK Authors - Reviewed by our UK Editor Rachel A. Hyde A Storm of Swords: Book Three of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind Moebius Arzach by Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier Star Trek The Next Generation: The Genesis Wave, Book One by John Vornholt Ebooks - The New Dinosaurs by William Stout - Reviewed by Rachel A. Hyde Venom by Faith Martin - Reviewed by Merilyn Tomkins General fiction - Blood Brothers by Iain McCallum - Reviewed by Faith Leslie Desirada by Maryse Condé - Translated by Richard Philcox - Reviewed by Zaheera Jiwaji High on a Cliff by Colin Schindler - Reviewed by Faith Leslie Lust & Other Stories by Susan Minot - Reviewed by Zaheera Jiwaji Monkeys by Susan Minot - Reviewed by Zaheera Jiwaji The Ivory Swing by Janette Turner Hospital - Reviewed by Zaheera Jiwaji - Winner of Canada's Seal First Novel Award. The Oasis: Lords of the Two Lands Vol. II by Pauline Gedge - Reviewed by Marion E. Cason The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks - Reviewed by PJ Nunn What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin - Reviewed by Morgan Ann Adams - Winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2000 for Best Book in Canada and the Caribbean. Non fiction - God’s Funeral by A.N. Wilson - Reviewed by Andrea Collare Jan Wong’s China by Jan Wong - Reviewed by Andrea Collare The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome - Reviewed by Julie Failla Earhart Romance - By Possession by Madeline Hunter - Reviewed by Rachel A. Hyde Intrigue/Intriga by Daniela Salcedo - Reviewed by Zaheera Jiwaji No Angel by Penny Vincenzi - Reviewed by Merilyn Tomkins Thyme Out by Katie Fforde - Reviewed by Merilyn Tomkins Mystery - A Case to Answer by Margaret Yorke - Reviewed by Merilyn Tomkins A Masterly Murder by Susanna Gregory - Reviewed by Rachel A. Hyde Bluebottle by James Sallis - Reviewed by Diane Gotfryd Buried Bones by Carolyn Haines - Reviewed by Susan McBride Dancing with Mr. D. by Lisa Kleinholz - Reviewed by Susan McBride Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley - Reviewed by Julie Failla Earhart Do or Die by Barbara Fradkin - Reviewed by Phillip Tomasso III Final Acts by Alex Abella - Reviewed by Reed Andrus Flint by Paul Eddy - Reviewed by Reed Andrus Garden of Evil by Edna Buchanan - Reviewed by Reed Andrus Hardhead by Barbara Quinn - Reviewed by Julie Failla Earhart Killing Cassidy by Jeanne M. Dams - Reviewed by Phillip Tomasso III Mood Swings to Murder by Jane Isenberg - Reviewed by PJ Nunn Murder in Belleville by Cara Black - Reviewed by Phillip Tomasso III Never Burn a Witch by M.R. Sellars - Reviewed by PJ Nunn Risen by Jan Strnad - Reviewed by Nancy Mehl Silent Conspiracy by Lee Meadows - Reviewed by Phillip Tomasso III Silent Suspicion by Lee Meadows - Reviewed by Phillip Tomasso III Strange Bedfellows by Matt Witten - Reviewed by Julie Failla Earhart The Good and the Dead by Seymour Shubin - Reviewed by Phillip Tomasso III The Immortal Game by Mark Coggins - Reviewed by Maria Y. Lima - Nominated for the 2000 Shamus and Barry Awards. The Sky Is Falling by Sidney Sheldon - Reviewed by Merilyn Tomkins Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters - Reviewed by Rachel A. Hyde Unnatural Fire by Fidelis Morgan - Reviewed by Rachel A. Hyde Unleashed by Laurien Berenson - Reviewed by Susan McBride Wednesday’s Child by Deborah and Joel Shlian - Reviewed by PJ Nunn Wil’s Bones by Kevin Bowen - Reviewed by PJ Nunn Special thanks to: Morgan Ann Adams, Reed Andrus, Lisa Eagleson-Roever, Julie Failla Earhart, Rachel A. Hyde, Zaheera Jiwaji, Susan McBride, Nancy Mehl, PJ Nunn, Natalie Buske Thomas, Phillip Tomasso III, Merilyn Tomkins. |
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