Comments on: Where Memories Lie

By: Paladin08

Paladin08 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:12:19 +0000

I’m currently going through the Lee Child’s books and enjoying Jack Reacher as a character but some of it is too gimmicky for my tastes.

Your words of “professional”, “solid plot” and “non-gimmicky” hooked me. I’ll have to check out this author.

Thanks.

By: ruth

ruth — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:24:29 +0000

I have read all of Deborah Crombie’s novels. What a great writer and your comment today summed it up perfectly. All her books are fabulous but I thoroughly enjoyed Where Memories Lie becauase of the subject matter and the characters.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:36:07 +0000

I picked up an older Crombie joint as part of a paperback mystery binge a year or so ago. A guy was selling books on the street in Queens for like a nickel, so why not? I learned a lot from that bulk purchase, and by far the most pleasant surprise of the group was one of Crombie’s Kincaid/James novels (it may have been called “Mourn Not Your Dead”). Compared to the much more visible Sue Grafton books, which I also sampled as part of that purchase, Crombie was in a whole other league. Her characters were more realistic, her plots more believable and better structured. Just all around good stuff. I’m really glad to hear that I hadn’t just gotten lucky. I’ve actually stockpiled a couple other Kincaid/James novels over the last couple months, and now I’m even more excited to dig in. I’ll have to keep an eye out for “Where Memories Lie” when it hits paperback.