Monday Mourning: A Tempe Brennan Novel

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The secrets of the dead are in her hands.

The bones of three young women are unearthed in the basement of a Montreal pizza parlor, and forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan has unsolved murder on her mind as she examines the shallowly buried remains. Coming up against a homicide cop who is convinced the dead have been entombed on the site for centuries, Tempe perseveres, even with her own relationship with Detective Andrew Ryan at a delicate turning point. In the lab, the clean, well-perserved bones offer few clues. But when Carbon 14 confirms her hunch that these were recent deaths despite the antique buttons found near the bodies, Tempe's probing must produce answers quickly to stop a killer whose grisly handiwork has seen the light of day.

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"A riveting new Temperance Brennan forensic thriller from Kathy Reichs, the internationally acclaimed forensic anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author... Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, has come from Charlotte to Montreal during the bleak days of December to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial. She should be going over her notes, but instead she's digging in the basement of a pizza parlor. Not fun. Freezing cold. Crawling rats. And now, the skeletonized remains of three young women. How did they get there? When did they die? Homicide detective Luc Claudel, never Tempe's greatest fan, believes the bones are historic. Not his case, not his concern. The pizza parlor owner found nineteenth-century buttons in the cellar with the skeletons. Claudel takes them as an indicator of the bones' antiquity. But something doesn't make sense. Tempe examines the bones in her lab and establishes approximate age with Carbon 14. Further study of tooth enamel tells her where the women were born. If she's right, Claudel has three recent murders on his hands. Definitely his case. Detective Andrew Ryan, meanwhile, is acting mysteriously. What are those private phone calls he takes in the other room, and why does he suddenly disappear just when Tempe is beginning to hope he might be a permanent part of her life? Looks like more lonely nights for Tempe and Birdie, her cat. As Tempe searches for answers in both her personal and professional lives, she finds herself drawn deep into a web of evil from which there may be no escape. Women have disappeared, never to return....Tempe may be next. With its powerful mix of nail-biting suspense and cutting-edge forensic science, Monday Mourning is the best yet from this superbly gifted, megastar author who, as New York Newsday says, is ""the real thing "

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Good science overwhelmed by a variety of uninteresting details.......2007-08-27

I came to Kathy Reichs' work via the BONES TV show, which while far-fetched has an entertaining quality that I thought might be a bit more grounded in her fiction. Well, it is grounded and not in a good way. After wading through Brennan's love life, with a dilemma about her boyfriend's young companion that has an answer so obvious it is insulting that Brennan doesn't figure it out or at least ask the right questions to deal with it, Brennan's friend going through her own marital crisis, and the contentious relationship with one of the investigating officers that seems so unprofessional that I can't believe it hasn't been resolved at this point in the series.
The saving grace is the science that is well explained and fascinating, without the sci-fi elements present in the TV show. The case dealing with the discovery of three bodies in the basement of a pizza parlor leads to a variety avenues of investigation which is well done until Brennan plays hero and the reality is once again drained away from the book. I don't think it's fair to judge a popular series with one book, but if this is a prime example of Reichs' work I'll stick with the TV version.

Monday mourning: a long week reading Kathy Reichs.......2007-08-20

I have been a Reichs fan since the start. Initially I was relieved to find such great books after tiring of the increasing implausibility of the Patricia Cornwell series. However, Monday Mourning is a disappointment. Reichs' strength is her intellectually challenging plots, dropping tidbits of information at regular intervals that occupy the mind without enabling us to solve too much of the puzzle before she does. The second half of Monday Mourning does not disappoint in this regard, if you are still reading by then. But the first half . . . slow, repetitive, riddled with painfully laboured descriptive allusions. It's like watching paint dry. There simply doesn't seem to be enough story for it to have any pace. And without pace, one is left to contemplate the stilted, flowery writing. Brennan herself is annoying. These kinds of books work well too if the central character is interesting. But Reichs has taken to portraying Tempe as a caricature: she has no depth. Same old mindless hostility at Claudel, the endless emphasis on how fresh and emotionally affected she is by "her girls" (the crime victims) despite years in the job (if this was for real she'd have a nervous breakdown), and a demonstration of the relationship skills of a goldfish in her senseless attempts to terminate her relationship with Andrew Ryan, without actually ever asking him why he's seemed a bit preoccupied lately. The only relationship that felt at all real was the one with her friend Ann. As I said, the last part of the plot unfolds in true Reichs style, but if the rest doesn't pick up in the next book, I'll be reading someone who hasn't lost their edge instead.

Monday Mourning: A Tempe Brennan Novel.......2007-06-06

Book came in the time frame and in the condition specified.

Great book!.......2007-06-01

The Kathy Reichs books are made all the better by the TV series Bones. You can visualize the Dr. Brennan perfectly. Gifted writer whose story was so compelling I just couldn't put it down!

Another Solid Performance.......2007-04-25

thoroughly enough Tempe and the people she surrounds herself with. For this one Tempe finds herself helping Claudel investigate the burial of three skeletons in a pizza-by-the-slice joint's basement. Claudel feels the bones are ancient and that it's a non-priority case; Tempe feels differently. The book has a slow start with a few subplots that don't really add to the book (and in fact seem to be a device to make sure one character is available at the end of the book) but don't detract from it either. I figured out the twist about 30 pages from the end; not bad for me when it comes to these sorts of books. I'm not sure if that means the book was a bit more predictable or if it means that I'm getting better at the sleuthing thing. The little blurb in the back of the book advertising for Cross Bones makes me want to run out and snatch that book up to read next.

I'm happy with the way Reichs seems to be working on her annoying habit of giving too much description. She doesn't lapse into that nearly as much in this book as she has in previous ones. Her writing appears to be getting tighter with a better flow. Another satisfying read.

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Dan Brown bested by Reiss in this Sci-Fi Da Vinci Code!
Something has invaded most of the world's gas supply....Planes fall out of the sky, food sits rotting, people get hungry...
Oil Apocalypse
Would make a good movie
Down & Dirty goes Clean & Hollywood!

Black Monday: A Novel
R. Scott Reiss
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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ASIN: 0743297644

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A plague that will cause the death of millions. A plague that will destroy countries. A plague that will plunge the world into a dark age. A plague that will make nobody sick...

When the first planes go down -- in Europe, in California, in Asia -- authorities blame terrorists. All flights are grounded as world leaders try to figure out how the global assault has been coordinated. And when cars, ships, and factories stop running too, it becomes clear that the common link is oil. Somehow a microbe, genetically engineered to destroy petroleum, has infected the world supply. The world descends into a new dark age.

Dr. Gregory Gillette, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control, is a disease hunter specializing in microbes that attack human beings. When the Pentagon taps him to be part of the Rapid Response Team assembled to track and kill the devastating Delta-3 bacteria, he quickly discovers that his expertise is ignored, his presence meaningless. The leader of the task force is an old nemesis who sidelines Gillette.

Gillette returns home to Washington, where he watches in horror as food becomes scarce, neighbor attacks neighbor, and government collapses. With winter approaching, the capital faces anarchy and Gillette faces a choice: to stay with his family or to disobey orders and find the microbes' antidote through clues that may not even be real.

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Dan Brown bested by Reiss in this Sci-Fi Da Vinci Code!.......2007-06-03

This has got to be the Da Vinci Code of recent Science Fiction and thriller offerings: It's over the top. The protagonists are good, larger-than-life, almost super-human and improbably lucky; the bad guys are bad, have some strange hang-ups and idiosyncrasies, and get what's coming to them sooner or later; it's rollicking good fun, suspenseful, chilling at turns, a page-turner from the get-go. No wonder a major motion picture studio has already optioned the book.

The "code" in this present-day disaster novel isn't arcane symbolism, musty crypts, lore or manuscripts, but DNA with a truly twisted genetic sequence that must be cracked before this petroleum-eating bacteria --unleashed among the world's oil fields-- throws our planet and its peoples deeper into chaos, rioting, anarchy, cannibalism, arson and worse.

What is this bacteria? Where did it come from? Who let it loose and why? Was it a terrorist or fringe group with a grudge against the West? Is there anything that can be done to stop it, let alone save Earth's supply of refined crude from the poisoned petro fields?

Those questions and more arise in this swiftly-moving, deftly-handled novel that could have taken its premise from Anderson and Beason's 1995 book "Ill Wind," also predicated on a petroleum-eating bacteria run amok. But "Black Monday" is head-and-shoulders above "Ill Wind," more polished, a much better read in my opinion --and one you won't regret.

Some elements are formulaic and predictable and there are wild coincidences and conveniences clearly inserted for the author's convenience rather than the sake of a convincing story line, but what the heck? This is the earth-bound equivalent of "space opera" Sci-Fi; rooted in some hard science, the human elements always outshine the catastrophic backdrop of the rampaging bacteria: Love, lust, angst, greed, avarice, selfishness, brutality and man's inhumanity to man --it's all here in colors blended just skillfully enough to entertain rather than glare.

Forget the odd typo or two, forget that protagonist Dr. Gregory Gillette (Commander, USN), a former gang member-turned physician/scientist has two beautiful women (one of them his wife) lusting after him, an entire neighborhood trusting him and a world depending on him. Never mind that he's impossibly good-looking and can brawl as well he can embody the ideal tender parent in almost the same paragraph.

Open this book, sit back and enjoy the ride, the twists and turns through the murk and mutiny that are the legacy of a post-petroleum world, one in which there is hope as well as desperation.

Warning: Some scenes of violence may unsettle certain readers, e.g. graphic murder.

Something has invaded most of the world's gas supply....Planes fall out of the sky, food sits rotting, people get hungry..........2007-05-30

BLACK MONDAY by R. Scott Reiss is my latest nightmare-inducer. The premise of this tightly written, chilling work is fairly simple: something has invaded most of the world's gas supply, thus rendering a majority of internal combustion engines inoperative. Planes fall out of the sky, food sits rotting, people get hungry and the natives grow restless.

Reiss doesn't dawdle on the road to chaos. Just like those first few raindrops in the middle of a picnic that herald the start of a deluge, he kicks things off with a couple of early warnings: planes mysteriously crash and cars suddenly stop running. There's a scene near the beginning of BLACK MONDAY that is a homage to "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" (arguably the best-known episode of "The Twilight Zone" television series) and sets things up for the disaster and horror that is to come. Gregory Gillette has the best chance of figuring out how and why the gasoline supply has become contaminated, and what to do about it. Gillette is an epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control; while his specialty is the study of disease microbes that attack human beings, it becomes evident to him that something similar is invading the world's oil supply.

While nominally assigned to a rapid response team designated to identify --- and then find some way of destroying --- the deadly microbe that has been code-named Delta-3, Gillette learns he has been backbenched by the head of the team, a longtime nemesis who is letting hubris stand in the way of salvation. Gillette quickly realizes that he must either wait helplessly with his family while their neighborhood and city descend into chaos, along with the rest of the industrialized world, or come up with a way to neutralize and destroy the Delta-3 microbe before the damage to the world (and society) becomes completely irreparable.

Disobeying orders and violating protocol, Gillette embarks on a dangerous and increasingly difficult mission across the country to find the source of the manufactured microbe that threatens to bring civilization crashing down in a matter of weeks. Even as the world is descending into chaos, however, a mysterious assassin is moving through the United States, making a series of apparently random yet carefully chosen killings that are somehow related to the biological attack on the world's oil supply --- and he is on a collision course with Gillette.

Gillette is an interesting and engaging character, whose ordinariness balances nicely with his fortitude and uncanny ability to keep asking questions until he hits the right one --- even as he is subject to baser temptations. For his part, Reiss does a wonderful job of explaining the process by which oil makes its way from a hole in the ground to the pump on the corner. If BLACK MONDAY has a weak spot, it's Reiss's occasional subtle plea for development of alternative fuel sources. Whether it be oil, wind, sun or horses, any mechanism that attempts to distribute power equally over a certain distance, regardless of source, will be vulnerable to the whim of a clown who tries to throw sand in the gears. The solution, as the book ultimately demonstrates, is to make life difficult, if not impossible, for the clown.

In any event, the "what-if" factor of BLACK MONDAY will be more than enough to make you think about it every time you unscrew your car's gas cap and wonder, for just a moment, if you're putting something in the tank besides gas. Don't miss this one.

--- Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub

Oil Apocalypse.......2007-04-18

This is a very good book on many levels. But the most important thing about it is that the author uses a make believe senario (oil eating bacteria) to do very quickly, what humankind is actually doing slowly (consuming the earths oil reserves). The breakdown of civilization is rapid, and deadly. For those of us who believe that world oil depletion will shortly make the Great Depression look like the good old days, the depiction of the downward spiral seems real, and right on target. Definitely a worthwhile read.

Would make a good movie.......2007-03-15

Suspenseful except for the last two chapters of the book then it moprhs into a predictable Hollywood ending. But that's okay, I suppose, because this is a work of fiction (where anything is possible even mundane endings) and most people would rather conclude this story the way the writer did. It got a little bit corny in the end.
I enjoyed the book and although there will be criticisms about the author's alarmist views on our oil dependence, I really did not read it to get any scientific premises on that topic. I bought the book for one simple reason: for entertainment. "Black Monday" was worth it. If you're looking for factual researches on oil-eating bacteria then you've got the wrong book! If you just want to be entertained, then this book will do just that.

Down & Dirty goes Clean & Hollywood!.......2007-03-12

Deinococcus radiodurans showed up in canned meat. It survived radition doses that had previously killed all microbes. This hardy fighter managed to stitch its genome together-actually repair itself- after radiation shredded the membrane of the cell.
The science is there and well presented. The plot is sinister in that the antagonist players could be on the inside rather than breaking into the circle of security.
The is the first half of the novel is an excellent rendition of the scenerio: OIL IS GOING....GOing...going...G o n e !!!!!!!!!!!!
Then what happens to society? What happens to truth?
When trying to get to the truth, It's not journalism any more. It's public relations. The finest minds turned into shills for incompetents.
Soon they ask about the most about powerful narcotic in the world.
OIL: More than opium, more than heroin. The pipelines are syringes. The addicts pay anything for their supply, kill for it.
The first half of this novel is par excellance!
Then it heads south to HOLLYWOOD!!!
Still the first half is all ahead full speed.
After that its a speed read till the last few pages where the author steps outside Hollywood and goes into the close!

You Should Have Died on Monday (A Lizzie Stuart Mystery series)

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An Outstanding Novel
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This latest entry into the Lizzie Stuart series is a great adventure.

You Should Have Died on Monday (A Lizzie Stuart Mystery series)
Frankie Y. Bailey
Manufacturer: Overmountain Press
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ASIN: 1570723192

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In this compelling mystery, African American university professor and crime historian Lizzie Stuart comes face-to-face with her long lost mother, Becca, and ultimately learns that some things are better left buried in the past.

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An Outstanding Novel.......2007-07-20

In her fourth appearance in the series by Frankie Y. Bailey Kentucky criminal justice professor Lizzie Stuart investigates a case that hits dangerously close to home. In 1969, four years after abandoning her days-old infant, Becca Stuart disappeared after being implicated in both a drive-by shooting as well the murder of a Chicago gangster. Determined to discover why her mother callously rejected her as well as the identity of her father, Lizzie joins an investigator in Chicago and soon encounters the murdered man's son and even more casualties left by the beautiful and possibly deadly Becca. Reluctant to give up her search and confused by university police chief John Quinn's presentation of a ring, Lizzie follows her mother's trail to North Carolina and New Orleans, fearful of the truth yet unable to avoid it.

Frankie Y. Bailey has created a wonderfully real, witty, and very smart heroine who draws readers into her world and keeps them fascinated until the very end. In a deceptively fast read Bailey incorporates numerous relationships between parents and children and explores how the baggage and expectations of the former affect the latter. Through Lizzie Bailey as well reveals extensive knowledge of the history of the cities of Chicago and New Orleans, as well as shining a light on the turbulent atmosphere of the late sixties. Even though Lizzie is warned off her search for her mother and the possibility that the knowledge she seeks will only be hurtful, Lizzie's desire and obligation to know truth wins out and makes her more admirable than foolishly stubborn. One of the aspects I found most refreshing in this novel is that while race is acknowledged, in both the history of the sixties as well as her own interracial relationship, it never dominates the story and instead takes a backseat to the conflict between parents and their children. Although this latest in the series can be read as a standalone, the humor, engaging characters, and fascinating lore will have readers hunting down her previous appearances (including a short story in the collection Shades of Black). This is a series that should not be missed.

Excellent.......2007-06-20

This was the best book in this series. I loved the fact that Lizzie and Quinn's relationship has progressed so well. You can feel the love between the two. Also, Lizzie follows leads that lead her to her mother. What a fantastic well written mystery. I was on the edge of my seat and I couldn't stop reading this story. I read it in one sitting. Excellent, Excellent.

This latest entry into the Lizzie Stuart series is a great adventure........2007-05-17

It is a wonderfully diverse mystery. Lizzie travels to Chicago and New Orleans in her search for Becca, a truly unique MOM classification, where she finds government manipulation, mafia and Black Panther members. I will not presume to give a review of Becca, Becca must be experienced.

Expect the unexpected and enjoy.

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Good plot and wonderful characters, but horribly padded
A solid modern-day British mystery
Just my cup of tea!
Not Your Usual Cozy !
Disappointed.

Murder On Monday (Lois Meade Mysteries)
Ann Purser
Manufacturer: Berkley
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ASIN: 0425192970
Release Date: 2003-10-07

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A devoted wife and mother of three, Lois Meade cleans houses in the quaint village of Long Farnden. When a local spinster is murdered, Lois finds herself poking around her clients' houses for clues. But her quest for the killer will uncover some surprising secrets about this seemingly peaceful village-and put her family in mortal danger.

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Good plot and wonderful characters, but horribly padded.......2007-09-11

Murder on Monday is a wonderful portrayal of murder in a small English country village that rivals Agatha Christie in its portrayal of the inhabitants and their goings-on. Lois Meade is likeable without being an over-the-top genius like some other literary detectives. The plot is fiendishly simple: a spinster is murdered, and Lois suspects the murderer resides in one of the five househoulds for which she does housework. Each home has a different secret and true-to-life characters. Where the novel fail dismisally, however, (and this is diffucult to explain without giving too much away) is the relationship between Lois and her husband, which seems perfect at one moment until it takes a disasterous turn out of nowhere which seemed completely out of place, both in the way it was written and the manner in which Lois reacts to it. As for the conclusion, any avid mystery fan knows that the murderer is always the least likely suspect, and I could see it coming half way through the book. However, the novel was nevertheless above average and I definitely look forward to reading the next installment, albeit with higher expectations.

A solid modern-day British mystery.......2007-07-17

I'm a fan of traditional British mysteries and the first five paragraphs of this book led me to believe that this story would be a wonderful Christie-like book. A woman is strangled while making tea for a woman's meeting in the village hall--what a perfect English murder!

Then I flipped the page and met Lois Meade, a most untraditional character.

While this book has all the usual trappings of a British village mystery--country doctors, local vicars, thatched cottages and back gardens--it is frimly rooted in the twenty-first century. And while one might miss the Old World atmosphere, the book has a simple homey charm all its own.

It took me quite some time to warm up to the prickly Lois, but in the end, I found that I really liked her. She has the potential to grow into a fabulous character and I hope the author will continue to develop her throughout the rest of the series.

Lois is a believable person who loves her family (even if they do drive her crazy) and who wants to do something more worthwhile with her life than cleaning other people's houses. She applies to be a Special Constable and is flatly turned down. When the village spinster is murdered soon afterward, she decides to see if she can figure out who the killer is. But Lois is distracted by her own problems at home: her daughter is carrying on with an older boy and her husband has a guilty secret.

Bottom line, if you're looking for a traditional British mystery, this might not be the book for you. If you're looking for edge-of-your-seat thrills, look elsewhere. But if you're interested in reading an entertaining mystery with a different kind of amateur detective, look no farther.

Just my cup of tea!.......2007-03-12

This was my introduction to Lois Meade and I thoroughly enjoyed it. A little bit different--Lois is a house cleaner--and we get to know her family while Lois goes about trying to solve this mystery. I am looking forward to reading more about Lois and her family. I gave this 4 stars instead of five only because nothing is really perfect!

Not Your Usual Cozy ! .......2007-02-25

When a book is advertised as a cozy it brings to mind a unthreatening, pleasent and possibly an unlifting read. Kinda like sunshine on flowers.

Well, Lois is scrappy and her family is gritty...Welcome to the real world of the working class!

This is a very well written British mystery with a great plot, slightly underdeveloped characters and an accurate description of small village life. Definately NOT sunshine on flowers.
If you like your characters more reality based, Lois is your girl.

Disappointed........2006-12-23

You would think by now I would have learned not to judge a book by its cover, but that's exactly what I did in this case. The picture on the front cover is charming. The words "Fresh, engaging, and authentically British" from a Booklist reviewer are splashed on the cover. And that reeled me in.

If you like the cozy mystery genre, and are a fan of Agatha Christie, Anne Perry, Dianne Day, Rita Mae Brown, or Margaret Miles, this may not be the book for you. If you liked the 90's TV show Roseanne, you're in for a treat. She's back, this time as a British house cleaner named Lois. Ann Purser goes out of her way to make Lois unsympathetic, and her husband Derek and daughter Josie downright annoying and unlikeable. It seems as though Purser's trying to break down the stereotype of the British mystery by choosing working-class characters in modern times, which I completely respect, but she's building up another stereotype at the same time: that working-class people are brash, crass, and argumentative.

Aside from unsympathetic and sometimes annoying characters, the conclusion of this mystery is a bit far-fetched, and leaves a lot of questions unanswered. The sad thing is, I'm not even all that curious about having them answered.

A very unsatifying read.

Cat on a Blue Monday: A Midnight Louie Mystery

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Louie does it again
Classic Midnight Louie, the best!
Midnight Louie is simply the cat's meow in my book!

Cat on a Blue Monday: A Midnight Louie Mystery
Carole Nelson Douglas
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ASIN: 0812534417

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Carole Nelson Douglas, award-winning author of the acclaimed Good Night, Mr. Holmes, captivated a host of new readers with Catnap, the first novel in an irresistible new mystery series featuring Midnight Louie -- a jet-black tomcat with an appetite for mystery and an attitude right out of Damon Runyon -- and his red-haired human companion Temple Barr, a publicist in the glittering Las Vegas media scene. Pussyfoot, the sequel to Catnap, was an even bigger success, and mystery fans have been eagerly awaiting the next volume in the series.Cat on a Blue Monday is well worth the wait. Someone is stalking prize-winning purebreds at the annual Las Vegas Cat Show, and Midnight Louie is off on the prowl again. As Louie, aided by a telepathic Birman cat named Karma, follows the scent of the killer, Temple is delving into the past of Matt Devine, the handsome young hotline counselor who's captured her heart. Soon Louie and Temple find themselves up to their tails in blackmail, extortion, and cold-blooded murder. Fans of foul play, feisty female detectives, and feline forensics are sure to find Cat on a Blue Monday just their saucer of milk.

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Louie does it again.......2003-11-12

At the Las Vegas cat show, a major contender - a once beautiful Birman - is shaved before she gets a chance to compete. At the Circle Ritz, home to Midnight Louie, a big, black, tough-talking feline supersleuth and his roommate, petite PR pro Temple Barr, another Birman, landlady Electra Lark's psychic Karma, warns Louie that he must find a place where lots of cats are gathered because they are all in danger. Louie does his research by absorbing the newspaper classifieds (it's a sort of learning by osmosis, as he explains it.) And so Louie sets out for the cat show.

Meanwhile, in the Las Vegas parish of Our Lady Of Guadalupe the convent cat, Peter, is found nailed to the shed door of a neighbor, spinster Blandina Tyler, in a mock crucifixion. Miss Tyler just happens to keep many, many stray cats. Blandina is aunt to Peggy Wilhelm of the shaved Birman who is now stuck on guard duty at the cat show. Temple - in a fit of good samaritanism - volunteered to help feed them Blandina's cats to help Peggy out. Lucky for Peter, whom she finds and rushes to the vet, where he makes a good recovery. Soon she and neighbor Matt Devine are also in on the action.

Meanwhile, Louie goes undercover at the cat show - after all, it is a place where many cats are gathered and at least one has been threatened. In the process he manages to win Best of Show in the housecat category - even though he didn't enter. That's our boy - one superior dude! But it doesn't go to his head. Louie has a job to do!

Is the hot spot the show? Or the parish, where Temple's divine neighbor, Matt Devine's former grade school teacher has called him to assist with still another problem - the pastor has taken to tippling. Poor, nearly deaf Sister Mary Monica is getting obscene phone calls, although she doesn't realize it. ("He must love philosophy. He's always talking about Kant," she says.) And there are mysterious things that go bump in the night all around the convent area.

And then Miss Tyler is murdered - and we have another clutch of cats in danger - along with a baffling selection of wills, all leaving Miss Tyler's money to different people and/or cats. Suddenly suspects appear to be everywhere.

Meanwhile, back at the Circle Ritz, Temple has adopted a new roommate - a small black Humane Society cat called Caviar. Her real name, she tells her new feline roommate (whose name she does not yet know) is Midnight Louise. Louise has a plan of her own - revenge on her dear old Dad, who heartlessly deserted dear sweet Mom and the kits. Louie is not particularly pleased.

Can Louie hide his identity from Louise? Is she really Louie's daughter? (We suspect so when she manages to leave a couple clues of her own about where the action is - revealing that she has Louie's detection genes if not his massive size.) Will they be able to co-exist in Temple's apartment? Will we ever discover why Father Hernandez is tippling tequila, or who has it in for the show cats - or the convent area cats? Or who keeps calling Sister Mary Monica and talking about female dog breeding?

Somehow, Louie, Temple and Matt manage to keep all the many strands of mystery from getting too, too tangled, but not before Temple has to break out her newly learned martial arts skills to foil an arson and would-be killer, or before Louie escapes after being chloroformed in a sack - the next candidate for crucifixion.

Rest assured - Louie is tough - and smart - and is only a bit chagrined that his latest media appearance is made while he looks helpless and totally dissheveled with an oxygen mask over his puss. After all - he did lead all the right people to the right places so that the dastardly deeds are finally halted and order and safety are restored to both the cat world and the parish. You'll need to read the book to find out how - and that is an entertaining assignment indeed.

This is the third Midnight Louie book and the first in the alphabetical series that now goes through letter N. But if you missed Catnap and Pussyfoot, don't worry - this book stands on its own merits, as do all the books in the series. It is exciting, mysterious, and yet totally charming. Talking cats may sound too cutesy to believe, but there is nothing cute about Louie - or even his alleged newfound daughter, Caviar. These are street smart cats with an inborn intelligence and a novel way of looking at the world that just may give some new insights to the humans who read them.

Classic Midnight Louie, the best!.......2002-04-18

Midnight Louie is at his best and most lovable in this romp through a murder at a cat show. How he is able to keep his excitable "Little Doll" under control and guide her to solving the mystery and other problems is quite engrossing. As always, Louie is the strong character and quite the inimitable tough private cat eye. A well plotted and well written book. Any cat lover and many a non-catlover mystery fan should love this book.

Midnight Louie is simply the cat's meow in my book!.......1999-02-13

Midnight Louie, cat detective and tomcat about town (Las Vegas that is), and his "human," Temple Barr are on the prowl again after a mysterious happening at a cat show. Also, strange happenings occur at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church involving obscene phone calls, priestly secrets, and lots of cats. A good read which I couldn't put down. If you are a fan of Midnight Louis mysteries or any other Black Cat style mysteries, you'll enjoy this one. I couldn't put it down until I got to the very suspenseful ending. (And yes I do own a black cat!)

The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1: Mister Monday

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Wonderland on steroids!
Five stars for the story, 1 star for the book publisher.
One of My All-Time Favorite Books
I couldn't finish it
this book is awesome

The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1: Mister Monday
Garth Nix
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Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world -- where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets. This is another thrilling, triumphantly imaginative series from Garth Nix, the best-selling author of THE SEVENTH TOWER, SABRIEL, and LIRAEL.

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Wonderland on steroids!.......2007-09-03

Garth Nix built a story like no other. Using the old theme of parallel universes and kingdoms he transformed a normal 13 year old boy into a hero that holds the primary key to the universe. Using the seven deadly sins, the seven days of the week and seven different values, we are taken into a House where everything came from.
Arthur Penhaligon and Suzy Blue are two amazing characters, Arthur: a normal boy, asthmatic, not too confident about himself, intelligent and thoughtful. Suzy: a young girl, sensitive, impulsive, strong and brave. Both make the story seem real and really adventurous.
There are other great secondary characters as well, Monday's Noon: the bad guy, loyal servant, strong and fierce. Monday's Dusk: A dark character, a rebel, helps Arthur through some complicated stuff. And finally, Mister Monday and The Will.
Overall the story is amazing, Garth Nix is really an incredibly imaginative author and everything he writes is always a great story. I'd recommend this book to any fantasy fan or any fan of a really good story.
Also read: Grim Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday, Sir Thursday and Lady Friday.

Five stars for the story, 1 star for the book publisher........2007-07-07

I really enjoyed Sabriel. To a lesser degree, I was also fond of the other books in the The Abhorsen Trilogy. When I was in the mood for some YA fantasy the other week, I immediately turned to Mr. Monday.

And it was a pretty good read. Arthur Penhaligon is a classic YA hero-- asthmatic, smart, and non-conformist. The world that he lives in is similar to ours, but different enough to be intriguing. The keys and Mr. Monday are intriguing concepts. The alternative world is a little bit complicated, but I like complicated. Bureaucracy plus the pied piper plus disorganized destiny plus raggedy-wing angels-- lots of stuff to sink your teeth into.

My biggest beef has nothing to do with the story. My brand new HarperCollins edition is missing pages 351 to 401. Instead, they bound pages 257-304 where the other pages should have been. That means that I missed the climactic confrontation with Mr. Monday. Very irritating. I have no idea if it was only my book with this problem. Potential buyers should check to make sure that they have all the pages before it is too late to return the book.

I'll definitely read Grim Tuesday, in any case.

One of My All-Time Favorite Books.......2007-07-06

I first started this series a year ago while traveling to New Jersey. This book was so good it took me 5 hours to read it. I still had 6 hours before we made it to New Jersey. The whole series is very fasinating and creative. This can be confusing sometimes but it brings you right back. My only disappointment is that I have to wait a year for Superior Saturday

I couldn't finish it.......2007-05-14

Ok, I am telling you right now, I always finish a book if nothing else just to get closure, but I stopped and finally put it down and just couldn't waste my time anymore... I tried several time to do pick it up and continue, but finally just gave up and put it down. How convoluted, Salvador Dali thinking processed can you get? The real time part of this book is good and you become attached to the characters, but the minute you go to his otherworld it is so convuluted, out of touch it just can't come together. I think this writer could be really talented and has a lot to offer he just needs to stay in the real world. I had to stop reading it and I dont' recommend it.

this book is awesome.......2007-03-30

Mister Monday by Garth Nix is one of the best books I have ever read. It's a story of a middle school aged kid named Arthur. He's pretty normal except for his dad use to be in a rock band and his mom is one of the most famous doctors in the world. One day while in gym class he has an asthma attack and passes out while people are running to get help a man in a wheel chair and another odd looking man appear. The man in the wheel chair gives Arthur a key, and they disappear again, while holding the key Arthur can breathe perfectly fine. After spending a couple days in the hospital he finds a notebook in his jacket pocket when he held the key and opened the book he sees a drawing of a house that nobody else can see. When he goes the house and touches the key to the wall a black door appears he walks in it and goes to another world. The whole book is about him saving this world because an evil man named mister Monday has unleashed pieces of a will this should be trapped up forever. In the end Arthur defeats Mister Monday and saves the lower house, but there are more days of the week to be stopped.
I thought this was a great book it had non-stop action. On of the greatest scenes of action is when Arthur and Mister Monday are fighting, the descriptiveness was so vivid I thought I was watching them the whole time. Another scene is when Arthur is being chased by creatures called Nithlings, he is saved by a friend and it explains really well how Arthur quickly climbed a rope and threw tiles at the creatures.
Another cool part of the story is how he described the landscapes that were in the book. He would quickly and efficiently describe every place they went, not like some stories where the spend pages describing one little thing. Like when Arthur first got to the House, as everyone called the world he went to, the author quickly described where he appeared but I could vividly see it in my head. Or when Arthur first went in to Mister Monday's dayroom to fight him, thought there wasn't much to it, I knew exactly what it looked like so as the said where they were I understood it like it was my own home.
Finally how everyone changed over the story, the characters in this story changed a lot in through the story. First of all Arthur who changed from assort of goofy asthmatic kid who couldn't run or fight in to a great hero. Suzy, one of Arthur's allies through out the story, changed from working at a crappy job to helping save the world. Mister Monday changed from a ruler of many to be a pathetic man grobbling for his life in front of Arthur.
So all in all this was a great book I would recommend it to anyone. Even though it's a little long it can be read quickly because of how interesting it is. So my recommendation is to anyone who likes to amazed
S. Bricker

The Killing of Monday Brown: A Phoebe Siegel Mystery

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Terrific!
Excellent Mind Ride!
One of the best mystery/suspense series around!

The Killing of Monday Brown: A Phoebe Siegel Mystery
Sandra West Prowell
Manufacturer: Walker & Company
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ASIN: 0802731848

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Sandra West Prowell's second Shamus Award-nominated mystery proves Phoebe Siegel is ready for readers of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone and Sara Paretsky's V. I.Warshawski novels.Lauded by The New York Times Book Review, this sizzling mystery explores crime on an Indian reservation. The victim, Monday Brown, is a white man who pillaged the Native American culture for profit. The suspect is Matthew Wolf, a young Crow traditionalist who'd do anything to preserve his heritage. Investigator Phoebe Siegel, hired to clear Matthew's name, discovers the truth in the sacred mysteries of the Crow culture.

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Terrific!.......2004-03-07

Of the three books in the series, this was my favorite. But when
is this author coming out with a new one??????

Excellent Mind Ride!.......2001-04-06

Murder, mystery, suspense, lovable characters with lazer-fast wit and charm. Take the visual detail of Anne Perry, add the fun from Janet Evanovich, and the artfulness of Agatha Christie and you've got THE KILLING OF MONDAY BROWN. WARNING, keep your book out of range from those who might swipe your copy. It's great. And every now and again a chuckle leaks out from the wonderful snappy exchanges between certain characters.

PHOEBIE SIEGAL, PI, is out to find out who murdered MONDAY BROWN, a want-to-be Native American. She takes her investigation in and around the tense lives on and off the reservation with first-person perception, attitude, and humor.

Love this story. Just got BY EVIL MEANS and WHEN WALLFLOWERS DIE. Anyone know when Sandra West Prowell's LAP OF GOD will be released? Please e-mail me if you do. It says in back of book that it will be the first thriller.

One of the best mystery/suspense series around!.......1999-01-06

Phoebe Siegel is a wise-cracking, gutsy P. I. with a past. She's also one of the most well-crafted and fascinating heroines I've come across in a long time.

In The Killing of Monday Brown, Siegel is hired by a local native American family to locate Matthew Wolf, a family member who is on the run and accused of killing Monday Brown. Monday is a white man living among the Crow community, and has been robbing the graves of Indians, stealing valuable and sacred artifacts for sale in Europe. But Monday is nowhere to be found, and Matthew Wolf is hard to find.

Phoebe's search for the truth leads takes her on a journey deep into the Crow culture and straight into the path of danger. Prowell's vivid exploration of Crow culture makes an already wonderful novel even more fascinating. And it doesn't hurt one bit that, along the way, Phoebe's relationship with sexy police officer Kyle Old Wolf also heats up considerably.

Prowell's ability to write fast-paced, entertaining dialogue is comparable in style and quality to such talented writers as Sandra Scoppettone and Dana Stabenow. The Montana setting is rich in history, culture, and beauty - a truly superb backdrop for the series. And while Montana seems to be a current favorite of writers, Prowell truly brings this area to life in The Killing of Monday Brown, a reflection of her artistic talent as well as her heritage as a fourth-generation Montanan. It's abundantly clear that Prowell has given much thought, heart, and soul to her series' heroine as well as the plot that sustains The Killing of Monday Brown. Phoebe is a deliciously feisty breath of fresh air, and this complicated plot moves quickly and smoothly from its beginning to its highly suspenseful conclusion.

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A bit different than his other books, but great fun for all.......2003-04-25

I loved this book as a chid, so when I ran across it recently I decided to see how well it would hold up today. I'm happy to say that it was just as fun to read now as it was all those years ago.

As an adult it is not too difficult to figure out the mystery, but it's still a fun story. As a child it was quite exciting and I'm sure that children today will love it as well. Unlike most Bellairs novels, which are usually scary stories of wizards, monsters, and curses, this is a more straightforward mystery centered around the hunt for a hidden treasure, and as such it would be appropriate for children who might be scared by some of Bellairs' other books.

Hidden treasure never looked so good.......2002-12-30

Fans of Bellairs beware: This book is slightly different from most of them. While it has a lot of the Bellairs staples (meek young boy, eccentric buddy, evil adversary), it doesn't have any horror or supernatural elements. Despite that, it's an enjoyable little mystery with a twist at the end.

To get away from his money-obsessed mother, Anthony Monday accepts a job working with his friend Miss Eells at the library. But when he's dusting, he accidently uncovers clues to the seemingly hidden treasure of late millionaire Alpheus Winterborn. Though Miss Eells doesn't think the clues are anything but a joke, she helps Anthony hunt for the treasure. But Hugo Philpotts, the sinister nephew of old Winterborn, is also searching for the treasure.

At about this time, Anthony's father suffers a heart attack that temporarily makes him unable to wor. Terrified that his family is going to run out of money, Anthony becomes obsessed with finding Winterborn's treasure. And when Philpotts threatens his father's business, Anthony finds that he has only a few days to find the treasure...

Even if this isn't a horror book, it's a pretty good mystery. Bellairs did a good job with staples like hidden treasure, clues in a poem, the sinister relative and so on. There's that distinct, slightly unreal flavor of a child's daydream in his books, like this is the imagined adventure of a boy on a summer day. And even though there are no monstrous spiders or cackling sorcerers, the discoveries near the end make up for that. Action fans will especially enjoy a tense scene on a rainy rooftop near the finale.

Anthony Monday is a little darker in some ways than Bellairs' more popular heroes (Johnny Dixon and Lewis Barnavelt), but he's very much in the same mold. Nice, quiet, unassuming, extremely loyal and normally very honest. Miss Eells, a ladylike librarion who can curse like a sailor (don't worry, parents, Bellairs never makes it clear just what she says), makes a good foil as the voice of experience and reason. And Philpotts becomes a little more ridiculous as the book goes on, but is an expert manipulator and very realistic.

I read this book expecting some thrills and chills, but didn't get many "chills." Despite that, one of Bellairs' few straight mysteries is good Gothic fun.

Good Story!.......2002-06-14

This is a good story and it's written very well. A thirteen year old boy, who is desperate to help his family out of their money troubles, searches for a treasure that may be just a practical joke. I didn't like the beginning of the story where Anthony is having trouble with his parents fighting all the time about money, but that's because John Bellairs wrote it so well. Anthony struggles with a lot of things, but everything works out and he's a big hero by the end of the story.

One of the BEST books I have ever read!!!!.......2002-05-16

This is a GREAT book. I highly reccomend it. Action packed, great storyline, and a spooky mystery, this book has it all!!!

Terrific book.......2001-12-15

The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn is a terrific book. It is a fast paced mystery w/a dramatic and exciting climax. Readers of John Bellairs won't be disapointed.

The Mansion in the Mist (Anthony Monday)

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The Mansion in the Mist
An Awesome Read!!!!!!
Real Good Read!
A Great Book
This book is the best book I have ever read

The Mansion in the Mist (Anthony Monday)
John Bellairs
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ASIN: 0142402621

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John Bellairs, the name in Gothic mysteries for middle graders, wrote terrifying tales full of adventure, attitude, and alarm. For years, young readers have crept, crawled, and gone bump in the night with the unlikely heroes of these Gothic novels: Lewis Barnavelt, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. Now, the ten top-selling titles feature an updated cover look. Loyal fans and enticed newcomers will love the series even more with this haunting new look!

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The Mansion in the Mist.......2006-12-11

If you are looking for a book filled with mystery, magic, and strong characters, then you have come to the right man. John Bellairs is a true wizard in writing books that will keep you on the edge of your seats, and the same is said for this book.

An Awesome Read!!!!!!.......2004-12-04

The book Mansion In The Mist, by John Bellairs was great! In this book this boy named Anthony and his friends Ms. Ells and Emersion went to this spooky house. Anthony finds this chest and finds a pathway to this world where the autarches plan to destroy the world! Later he takes his friends in a wild world of adventure. Will Anthony and his friends find the hidden treasure or will it be to late?

Real Good Read!.......2002-05-25

I really enjoyed this story. It's a mystery, it's got some sci-fi, and it's definitely got some scary horror stuff. Anthony joins his good friend Miss Eells, the librarian, and her brother for a trip to her brothers old house on an island. When they get there, they find a mysterious room with a mysterious trunk. One day, they get inside the trunk, and it shoots them off to a whole other world in a whole other dimension, one where the people are trying to destroy the earth. Well, of course, Anthony figures out how to do the bad guys in and save the whole planet. This is a real good read.

A Great Book.......2000-11-16

I have never liked reading but this John Bellairs book, The Mansion in the Mist, kept me reading. I got hooked onto his books in 4th grade and ever since I have enjoyed his books. The Mansion in the Mist has a lot of discriptive words in it, sets the setting and gets off to a great start. All the way through the book he is consistant on good adjectives and is very interesting. I like his endings the most though because sometimes they are scary but in the end his makes sure everyone's O.K. I think John Bellairs is the best author!!

This book is the best book I have ever read.......2000-10-16

"I could ask Emerson yo invite you to come along, but I don't know if you'd be happy in his rickety old house on that godforsaken chilly lake," said Miss Eells to Anthony. Anthony is a thirteen year old boy in the mid-1950's. You will know more about Anthony and his friends in this suspensful thriller, The Mansion in the Mist, by John Bellairs. Anthony does decide to go to the old house with two of his friends, Emerson and Mis Eells. One night while Emerson and Miss Eells were out fishing, Anthony decides to explore the old house. When he walked into a dark room he notices a chest in the middle of the floor. He opened it up and accidently fell in. when he stepped out he was in a new world. He came to a mansion and saw evil through the window. They were planning to take over earth, but how? How will Anthony be able to save the people of Earth from the evil? i enjoyed this book because every chapter kept you wondering what will happen in the next chapter. If you ever read read any book by John Bellaris and liked it, or just like mystery and suspensful books you will love this book. What will happen to anthony and his friends at this house? You will just have to read it and find out!

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Treasure Hunt
Everyone here is crazy
A Different Kind of Mystery titled Another Kind of Monday
I'm surprised....
Another Kind of Monday

Another Kind of Monday
William E. Coles
Manufacturer: HarperTempest
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Release Date: 1999-06-08

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With the chance opening of a dusty copy of Great Expectations, a young man is plunged into a mysterious scavenger hunt that leads him all over his native city of Pittsburgh and straight into an unexpected romance. The quest begins when Mark finds $300 and a set of directions in a library book. After accepting the stated conditions and tracking down the first few clues, he is instructed by his unknown benefactor to select a companion for the quest. "This person is to be a different sex from your own... but may not be a friend of yours at present." Mark settles on Zeena Curry, a striking, smart girl. Zeena cautiously accepts Mark's offer, even though her black mother's painful divorce from her white father has made her distrustful of people outside her race. Together, they experience several narrow escapes--including one that lands Mark in the emergency room nursing a concussion--before coming to the conclusion that they just might be in love. Impatiently, they strive toward their shared goal, hoping for a big payoff, not realizing until the end that the journey itself may have been their greatest reward.

Rife with interesting tidbits of historical Pittsburgh lore, the cryptically worded quest will keep teens eagerly moving through the 200-plus pages of this novel. It is the author's exploration of Mark and Zeena's relationship, however, that provides the heart of Another Kind of Monday. By framing this unlikely couple within a enigmatic journey, William E. Coles Jr. has created a young adult novel that is neither mystery nor romance but the best parts of both. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert

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When Mark borrows a copy of Great Expectations from the school library, he finds, concealed between two pages, an envelope containing three crisp one-hundred dollar bills.There is also a note mysterious but intriguing, that invites the finder to embark on a quests. If Mark can puzzle out the meaning of a series of enigmatic verse clues meant to lead him on a treasure hunt around his hometown of Pittsburgh, then, like Charles Dicken's Pip, he is promised a fortune. But he must follow certain rules - like working in absolute secrecy -- or the deal is off. Rewarded by gifts of money, Mark uses the clues to move from one strange Pittsburgh location to the next - an abandoned steel mill, an old astronomical observatory -- when suddenly the rules of the quest change...

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Treasure Hunt.......2007-07-03

Mark lost the copy of "Great Expectations" he was supposed to read for school, so he has to borrow a copy from the school library. Between two pages he finds several hundred dollars and a note, directing him on a secret mission around his city of Pittsburgh, finding out historical information about former city leaders. When one of his notes instructs him to choose someone he doesn't know very well to help him in his quest, he asks Zeena, a girl from his English class, to be his partner.

Zeena is smart and good at helping Mark to research, but her secret partnership with him causes major problems between him and his girlfriend, who can't seem to understand that Zeena isn't a threat to her. When she breaks up with Mark, he begins to think that perhaps he might be able to have a relationship with Zeena after all.

I liked the idea of the treasure hunt and the mission Mark and Zeena were on. I probably would have liked it more if I were more familiar with Pittsburgh and knew the landmarks in the book.

The ending of this boo was really disappointing. I wanted something spectacular to happen to Mark and Zeena, but it didn't.

Everyone here is crazy.......2006-03-23

Well...maybe not crazy. But, no one seems capable of playing well with others. So, what's the real scoop? The only conclusion our book club came up with was that this young adult novel can be read by either girls or boys with equal pleasure, or disdain. The reader, however, is left holding the question bag. Who exactly was the beneficient founder of the feast? What was really his motivation? Was he a total psycho? Did he create the clues before Pennyman was torched? Why did he risk the life and limb of a high school student and companion? Was Rose Tourette magical? Did Rose Tourette eat the benefactor? Heck! I don't know! There is no sequel. Some readers might prefer a more precise resolution.

A Different Kind of Mystery titled Another Kind of Monday.......2004-03-26

First of all, I was required to read this book for English Festival and did not choose to read it. Overall,it was a pretty good book, but I definitely would not recommend it to any one under 13. The only thing I didn't like was the ending. I completely did not understand it and it didn't fit in with the rest of the book at all. It was very educational, though. I live in Pittsburgh and, while discuccing this book in class, discovered that our class took a field trip to an observatory and looked through a Brashear lense! Before this, the only one of the historical people in this book I had heard of was Henry Clay Frick, and I didn't even really know who he was! This book is good for any one who likes mysteries or historical books.

I'm surprised...........2004-03-16

... I, personally loved it. It had an interesting and little used theme, an interesting main character, and I loved the author's choice for a title. Here is the thing with the ending, it isn't a BAD ending conclusion wise, it is more a bad ending to the "quest" that the two main chracters, Zeena and Mark are suppossed to be on, the basic plot point of the book.

What happens in the last chapter, to me, is a perfectly fine ending, I liked it. The chapter before that is why this book is really confusing, I couldn't really make heads nor tails of it, and it was an odd way to end the mission, and leaves a lot unanswered.

However, this book deals with not only a great historical background of the great city of Pittsburgh, but with many of the racial and ethical issues in our world today.

Overall, this is a good book, and I think it is definetly worth your while. While the ending of the quest left me and obviously a lot of others very disapointed. Yet it actually, now that I think about it, kind of leaves it up in the air, for you to imagine, to draw your own conclusion from the symbolism of this book. I still gave it 5 stars, because the over-all book is great, but if you are a person who is real into detailed plots and ending where all the answers are given, you might not be very into this book.

Another Kind of Monday.......2003-10-27

I loved this book! I stayed up late reading it. I read it for school, but once I picked it up, it was hard to put down. The book was set in Pittsburgh, and that where I live, so it was fun reading about the places I know about. After I read it, then saw only three stars for it, I wanted to send a review, saying its better than that. I strongly recomend reading "Another Kind of Monday".

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