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37 years old. New Jersey resident. Fan of mystery novels, classic literature, and non-fiction about movies, television, sports, and American history.

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Scarlet Miss

The Scarlet Ruse by John D. Macdonald

March 19, 2023 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Professional “salvage consultant” Travis McGee doesn’t much care for the idea of taking on a case of missing postage stamps, no matter how valuable they apparently are. But lately Trav has been taking one of his long “installments” on his retirement and he needs to replenish his accounts. So he sits down with Hirsh Fedderman, a friend of his friend Meyer, and hears all about how over $400,000 worth of a mobster’s stamp collection have been switched out of a safety deposit box and replaced […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: John D. MacDonald

jeverett15's CBR15 Review No:15 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: John D. MacDonald ·
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Ancient History

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman

March 13, 2023 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

If you were writing an American History textbook you might be tempted to skip from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the September 11 attacks with just a few brief pitstops along the way. Even as they were happening the Nineties tended to feel less consequential than other eras, and in the years since there was been less nostalgia for them than many other decades. But of course there is always a lot going on, in politics, in art, in technology and science, and […]

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jeverett15's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: History · Tags: chuck klosterman ·
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Hello Mudder

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

March 5, 2023 by jeverett15 1 Comment

Horse unfolds in three parallel narratives spanning three centuries. In the 19th century, an enslaved man learns the art of training a horse from his free father and goes on to a long association with the greatest racehorse of his era, the legendary Lexington. In the 20th Century, an influential art dealer known for her work with abstract painters takes an unlikely interest in a painting of Lexington done by a minor artist. And in 2019, an art historian and a scientist find themselves drawn […]

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jeverett15's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Geraldine Brooks ·
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Number Three With a Bullet

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

February 23, 2023 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

The third entry in Richard Osman’s phenomenally successful Thursday Murder Club series follows the arc of most series. The stakes continually get higher, new characters are introduced, and the plots get more and more complicated. For now, though, the grace of Osman’s plotting and the charm of his characters can keep the reader invested. Once again, the elderly members of the Thursday Murder Club insert themselves into a murder investigation, utilizing their wisdom and experience while also cleverly subverting people’s lowered expectations of senior citizens. […]

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jeverett15's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Richard Osman ·
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On the Fence

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

February 20, 2023 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Ray Carney is a man perpetually caught in the middle. As a Black business owner in Harlem he is a fixture in his community, but he has a hard time getting white-owned companies to do business with him. As a dark-skinned Black man he faces colorism from the affluent section of Harlem, including his own in-laws. And as the son of a career criminal, he finds himself struggling to escape from his father’s past while inexorably drawn back into it by his father’s old associates […]

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jeverett15's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Colson Whitehead ·
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Deep Thoughts With Jack Gladney

White Noise by Don DeLillo

February 14, 2023 by jeverett15 2 Comments

Jack Gladney is obsessed with death. As a professor of Hitler Studies, a field he pioneered, death plays a large part in his career. But he’s also obsessed with his own death. He and his fourth wife Babette frequently discuss which of them will be the first to die. Their conversations about death, and all other matters really, are circular and esoteric. They continue to be so even after an ecological disaster (very similar to recent real-life events in Ohio) makes the prospect of death […]

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jeverett15's CBR15 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Don DeLillo ·
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