Books by Judith Kelman and Complete Book Reviews
Peter T. Scardino, Author, Judith Kelman, Author, M. D. Scardino, Author . Avery $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-58333-220-7
Many men have a dreaded fear of prostate problems that prevents them from seeking help. In response to that approach, Scardino, a practicing urologist at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, quotes Joe Torre regarding his own...
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Judith Kelman, Author . Putnam $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15109-5
Kelman (Someone's Watching; Summer of Storms; etc.) saddles her protagonist, New York writer Claire Barrow, with a heap of problems in this knotty suspense thriller. Claire's police detective husband has committed suicide, leaving her to...
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Judith Kelman, Author . Berkley $24.95 (359p) ISBN 978-0-425-20556-3
P.J.—"Poor Julia"—Lafferty is a therapist on Riker's Island who carries her parents' early deaths in a car crash like a wound. When she okays a jailhouse mock wedding and the bride is murdered, she loses her job and...
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Judith Kelman, Author . Severn $28.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6443-7
The middle-aged woman's postdivorce rebirth plot is given a rejuvenating jolt by Kelman (Every Step You Take
) in this uplifting bathtub read. Maggie Strickland's emotions shift from shock to grief to rage when she discovers her husband,...
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Judith Kelman, Author . Berkley $24.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-425-21367-4
At the start of this disappointing thriller from Kelman (The Session
), artist Emma Colten, pregnant with her second child, is struggling to balance motherhood with her professional duties and the needs of her husband, Sam, a surgical resident at a...
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Judith Kelman, Author Crimeline $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-29101-8
Kelman's ( Someone's Watching ) creepy suspense novel bears so many similarities to Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs that it's difficult not to make comparisons and find faults. The book opens as 11-year-old Abigail Eakins, weary of her...
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Judith Kelman, Author Bantam $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-29102-5
Suspected killer Theodore Macklin, who's afraid of heights, takes a swan dive off a bridge in Rhode Island. Gail Weider, an angst-ridden New Yorker who fears the open road, drives her Chevy wagon at high speed to her death. What do these two...
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Judith Kelman, Author Bantam $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-56272-9
Kelman's (If I Should Die) latest thriller opens with the death of powerful Sen. Simon Gallatin. All evidence suggests that the killer is Gallatin's girlfriend, the beautiful, plucky artist Thea Harper. But Harper not only has no memory of...
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Judith Kelman, Author Putnam Adult $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-14511-7
Jess and Charles MagillConnecticut residents, Ivy League, professionally secure physicianshave a happy marriage, three healthy kids, satisfying careers and a lovely home. But when their teenaged honor student/athlete son is arrested and accused of...
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Judith Kelman, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-10193-5
A teacher who suspects that a young pupil is the victim of a toddler kidnapping takes a huge step in Kelman's (Prime Evil) hardcover debut. Beth Logan, a special-ed teacher in a New Hampshire private school, elects to return Pip, the headmaster's...
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Judith Kelman, Author Putnam Publishing Group $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-14674-9
Set in a shadowy and sinister New York City, this taut and assured suspense thriller by Kelman (After the Fall, etc.) chronicles the rekindling of a long-dormant murder investigation and the return of a ruthless killer. Thirty years after her young...
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