Books by Meg O'Brien and Complete Book Reviews
Joan Lowery Nixon, Author, Meg O'Brien, Author Starfire $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-29602-0
According to PW, This entertaining frontier adventure/romance provides a credible, stirring picture of the Wild West ... A fast-paced and compelling narrative. Ages 10-up. (Oct.)
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Meg O'Brien, Author . Mira $6.50 (400p) ISBN 978-1-55166-723-2
At a pace any locomotive would envy, O'Brien's newest romantic thriller (after Crimson Rain
) moves from the dead-end musings of its lovestruck narrator, literary agent Mary Beth Conahan, to writer Tony Blake, the client she's been...
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Meg O'Brien, Author Doubleday Books $16.5 (245p) ISBN 978-0-385-42265-9
Rochester, N.Y., reporter Jessica James returns (after Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow ) in this disappointing tale, which centers mostly on her personal life. After flunking a course for executive bodyguards, which she took in order to research an...
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Meg O'Brien, Author Crimeline $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28488-1
O'Brien's debut is a solid novel with a timely plot and a bright female narrator who joins the growing ranks of heroines to dispute male dominance of the crime genre. She is Jessica (inevitably Jesse) James, a reporter on an upstate New York...
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Meg O'Brien, Author Crimeline $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28617-5
What do women want? Hard-boiled snoop Jessica ``Jesse'' James can only think of one thing: ``to be their own men.'' James, who made her first appearance in The Daphne Decisions , is an unreliable but talented reporter for the Rochester (N.Y.) Herald
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Meg O'Brien, Author Doubleday Books $18.5 (276p) ISBN 978-0-385-42482-0
The author of four mysteries starring reporter Jesse James ( The Daphne Decisions , etc.) takes a break from her series to offer a simplistic plucky-heroine-in-a-tough-spot scenario that she gives narrative drive through a handful of gut-wrenching...
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Meg O'Brien, Author Doubleday Books $18.5 (343p) ISBN 978-0-385-42572-8
O'Brien follows up The Keeper with a melodramatic story of hidden identity and murder set in the worlds of medical research and pharmaceuticals. Mary Clare Ryan, a brilliant young Washington, D.C., research biologist is killed in a car crash that...
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Meg O'Brien, Author St. Martin's Press $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-95586-1
Poor Joanna Carr! Six months in a catatonic state, and now she awakens to find that her ``perfect'' husband, David, is dead, felled, apparently, by the same villain who knocked her silly that dreadful night so long ago. As if that's not bad enough,...
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