Books by Sarah Shankman and Complete Book Reviews
Sarah Shankman, Author Pocket Books $5.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-89750-5
An aspiring Nashville songwriter is stalked by her ex. (July)
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Sarah Shankman, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-312-40997-5
Shankman's first novel is a mass of incongruities that may appeal to readers with steely stomachs and a vast tolerance for silly heroines. The plot concerns an unfrocked KKKlansman who mutilates, murders, then rapes women in San Francisco. Annie...
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Sarah Shankman, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66057-4
This upbeat, exuberant journey of discovery follows Emma Fine, a keen-eyed, independent-minded Jewish girl from her home in West Cypress, La., to Atlanta, New York and then California in a restless search for her own identity. Emma's quest begins...
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Sarah Shankman, Author Pocket Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73657-6
Chagrined because she has to watch ``a lot of flesh jiggle up and down a runway'' (i.e., cover the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.) Samantha Adams, star reporter for the Atlanta Constitution , returns in this colorful mystery by the...
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Sarah Shankman, Author Pocket Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-89751-2
This departure from Shankman's popular Samantha Adams series (He Was Her Man) doesn't deliver on the promise of its clever title. There are plenty of laughs in the outrageous, rhinestone-studded story of Shelby Kay Tate, a Nashville waitress hoping...
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Sarah Shankman, Author Pocket Books $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-89753-6
Melodrama reigns in this seventh in the series, which finds Samantha Adams, author of books on the bizarre, starring in her own personal Twilight Zone episode. Sam gets a letter from her mother, who was presumed to have died in a plane crash when...
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Sarah Shankman, Author, Shankman, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-73658-3
Samantha Adams, star reporter for the Atlanta Constitution , returns to investigate the disappearance of a Miss America pageant judge in this colorful mystery. (Oct.)
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Sarah Shankman, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68456-3
Shankman's witty mystery is the second to feature ace investigative reporter Samantha (Sam) Adams, last encountered in Then Hang All the Liars , which appeared under the pseudonym Alice Storey. Sam is visiting from Atlanta when she witnesses a car...
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Sarah Shankman, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68457-0
In two previous mysteries written under the pen name Alice Storey, Shankman introduced Atlanta journalist/detective Samantha Adams; here Sam is hired to find out if foul play is involved when an alcoholic ophthalmologist is run down by a car in New...
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Sarah Shankman, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-73460-2
Her disappointing fifth outing finds amateur sleuth and writer Samantha Adams at a Barbecue Cookoff in Tupelo, Miss., where death assails the eccentrics gathered there. (Sept.)
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Sarah Shankman, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-77553-7
Introduced in First Kill All the Lawyers and seen last in The King is Dead , smart-mouthed Samantha Adams, former crime reporter from New Orleans, here encounters a raft of new friends and felons in Hot Springs, Ark. Fleeing from her unfaithful...
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Sarah Shankman, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $5.5 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-77563-6
A large-hearted, entertaining mystery featuring smart-mouthed New Orleans former crime reporter Samantha Adams. (Sept.)
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