Marjorie Dorner, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $16.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-07-017784-0
Exemplary writing and the methodical buildup of suspense rivet one's attentions on Dorn's first novel until it falls apart at the end. The author commands feeling for Linda Hammond, a divorcee, and her daughter Dana, 11. Life is pleasant in their...
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Marjorie Dorner, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $17.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-07-017786-4
Naturally, there's a skeleton. It's discovered in a sealed cistern when new owners raze Barbara Mullen's childhood home. The medical examination reveals that the bones belong to Barbara's Uncle Tony, missing since World War II and, it seems now,...
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Marjorie Dorner, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-688-09530-7
A dense bit of irony lies at the core of this romantic thriller in which the suspense is not always maintained. On sabbatical in England, American college professor Beth Conroy enjoys the winding, echoing streets of Cambridge, until her pleasure is...
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Marjorie Dorner, Author Milkweed Editions $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57131-027-9
Dealing with several too many hot-button topics, this slightly dated and certainly gender-stereotyped novel about six college friends reuniting for a week's retreat at a Midwestern lodge has the outworn feel of a 1970s story. Jan, Linda, Sharon,...
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Marjorie Dorner, Author, Allen Servoss, Illustrator Milkweed Editions $11.95 (203p) ISBN 978-0-915943-86-9
In her debut collection of 12 stories that follow the lives of seven families in a Midwestern farming community from the 1930s to the present, mystery writer Dorner ( Freeze Frame ) realistically portrays the hardships of rural life and evokes a...
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Marjorie Dorner, Author, M. Dorner, Author Zebra $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8217-3766-8
Stilted dialogue and sticky-sweet romance undercut the chilling effects of this thriller--a BOMC selection in cloth--about an American professor on sabbatical in England who is stalked by a serial killer. (June)
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Majorie Dorner, Author, Marjorie Dorner, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (304p) ISBN 978-0-688-09531-4
Adoptee Kate Lundgren, 23, is caught up in murder as she pursues her biological mother in this emotionally intense mystery with a surprise ending. After years of legal efforts to get in touch with the woman who bore her but who has twice refused...
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