Julia Navarro, Author , read by James Langton. Random House Audio $29.95 (
, abridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7393-4232-9
, abridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7393-4232-9
The Da Vinci Code
, in all its many incarnations, has a lot to answer for. This latest entry in the religious suspense sweepstakes is by a bestselling Spanish novelist, who stirs up the pot by mixing fact and fiction to tell what happened to the...
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Julia Navarro. Vintage, $16.95 trade paper (864p) ISBN 978-1-101-97325-7
As thick as the DSM, Navarro’s (The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud) latest is a loose, baggy monster about a particularly monstrous character. The titular sociopath is Thomas Spencer, born “without a conscience” to a New York family whom he...
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Julia Navarro, Author, Andrew Hurley, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. Bantam $23 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-33962-9
For readers who can't get enough of the religious suspense genre, here's a heaping helping of more of the same. When the unidentified body of a tongueless man turns up in the ashes of a suspicious fire in the Turin cathedral, home of the...
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Julia Navarro, Author, Andrew Hurley, Translator Bantam $24 (497p) ISBN 978-0-385-33963-6
International bestseller Navarro (The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud) wades back into the religious artifact suspense pond, but this time she's pretty much dead in the water with too many unpleasant characters, repetitive exposition, a plodding plot
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