They say true creativity is putting two ideas together for the first time. In the case of On Virgin Moors, the idea was to put Space Opera and Soap Opera together. Soap Opera won out, although there’s a nice Sci-Fi plot hidden in there somewhere. The format of the story is a series of chapters…
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“Watch Her Vanish” by Ellery Kane
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My sister-in-law, who taught high school for far too long, typified Country music as “People making poor life choices and then whining about the results.” A certain level of Police Procedural novel goes about the same way. The detective mystery takes a back seat to the soap opera. Personally, I don’t know why anyone would…
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“The Smuggler’s Daughter” by Claire Matturro
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There are two kinds of detective novels. The first is a detective novel that gives us a bit of the soap opera of the detective’s life to add flavour to the story. The second is a soap opera that uses the detective story for the same purpose. This book is a strange combination of the…
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“Sleep, Savannah, Sleep” by Alistair Cross
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Long ago I discovered that most novels finish exactly the way they start. If a book seems like a certain type of story in the first three chapters, then it will probably end that way. Most novels. Once in a while, we find a book that starts out in one direction but somewhere in the…