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Heat Wave, by Richard Castle
If you are a mystery fan, and watch Castle on ABC TV, you may enjoy Heat Wave, by Richard Castle. I recommend both the book and the TV show. Nikki Heat is tough and dominant in the novel. Her TV character Kate Beckett is softer, and Richard Castle more often than not gets the best of her. Rook the reporter tag-along in the novel never wins unless Nikki allows it.
Part of the hype about the book is to guess who the ghostwriter is. My guess was Jayne Ann Krentz of the Arcane Society Novels I wrote about months ago. Anyway, I am convinced it's written from a woman's view. Violence against women gets a lot of ink, and it's well done. Sex scenes would be PG rated on TV, except for Nikki walking around her apartment naked, and you can guess what happens next - violence. The TV series writers have to be male dominated.
I might have guessed the ending early on, but the suspense of getting there was worth the reading.
In my previous blog post about the four books I bought at Barnes & Noble, I mentioned how I responded to multi-media publicity. Another example appeared in this week's Economist news magazine. An excellent book review of a very expensive new publication on Van Gogh; $600 for a 2500-page six volume set. I won't bite on this one. See the link below.
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14743354
Part of the hype about the book is to guess who the ghostwriter is. My guess was Jayne Ann Krentz of the Arcane Society Novels I wrote about months ago. Anyway, I am convinced it's written from a woman's view. Violence against women gets a lot of ink, and it's well done. Sex scenes would be PG rated on TV, except for Nikki walking around her apartment naked, and you can guess what happens next - violence. The TV series writers have to be male dominated.
I might have guessed the ending early on, but the suspense of getting there was worth the reading.
In my previous blog post about the four books I bought at Barnes & Noble, I mentioned how I responded to multi-media publicity. Another example appeared in this week's Economist news magazine. An excellent book review of a very expensive new publication on Van Gogh; $600 for a 2500-page six volume set. I won't bite on this one. See the link below.
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14743354
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