Books by Peter Manus and Complete Book Reviews
Peter Manus, Author . Virgin $15.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-7535-1399-6
Manus's debut depicts a mystery entirely through a blog devoted to noir, but the execution fails to match the intriguing concept. L.G. Fickel lets her audience in on a traumatic event she witnesses—the suicide of a man who jumps in front...
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Peter Manus. Diversion, $16.99 trade paper (376p) ISBN 978-1-62681-842-2
Law school professor Manus’s inventive if convoluted first novel, told in a series of blog entries written by a woman calling herself L.G. Fickel and her followers, pays homage to the authors, books, films, and Hollywood stars of noir. On a Boston...
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Peter Manus. Diversion, $16.99 trade paper (350p) ISBN 978-1-63576-165-8
Boston’s historic, multicultural neighborhood of Dorchester provides the backdrop for this engrossing crime novel from Manus (Fickle). One hot summer afternoon, an old woman who’s a churchgoer and pillar of the community is hit by a car and killed....
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