Publish and Be Murdered
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If you have yet to make the acquaintance of Baroness Jack Troutbeck, run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and order yourself a copy of this book.  Every time poor Robert Amiss, ex-civil servant, succumbs to Jack's wicked wiles -- no, no, not that, get your mind out of the gutter.  Jack keeps finding Robert jobs, is all, after which murder is invariably committed somewhere around his person and he's left to clean up the resulting mess, with help from the exuberant and irrepressible Jack, of course.

 Dudley Edwards thus far has bulls-eyed the British civil service, Oxbridge, the House of Lords, the Church of England, Anglo-Irish relations, and, in the above-named novel, the publishing industry.  She is also a prolific and much-quoted commentator on Anglo-Irish politics and current events.
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The author asks a question that it is illegal to answer in Australia.
She claims to be an Aboriginal, and uses that claim to get government money, while real Aboriginals in the outback suffer.

She is a race baiter of the Al Sharpton camp.

And here is a question:  Why buy a book whose title question is not ony illegal to answer in the country of origin, but whose author went to court to prevent anyone from answering?

I hope the publishing company loses it shirt on this moral cretin.
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This is an exact duplicate of the author's Grave in Gaza. You would expect Amazon or the seller to alert us of this!!
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No info. This is a punishment to read. My dignity died . I'm writing this to get away from the book. Dont buy especially for children. MARK MY WORDS.
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Simply dreadful.

 The title of this book is called Retribution because by the end of it, you'll want Retribution on the author, the editor (if there was one), and the publisher who made a grave mistake bringing this to the masses.

 It's placed in the horror genre, but the more propitious category is horrible.

 Don't waste your time or money.
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PJ Campbell's BOOKED TO DEATH is a slyly amusing send-up of the publishing industry. It is a light mystery; nothing gruesome, and it informs the reader about the way books are sold. Interwoven throughout is a thread of observational humor.
In an afterword, PJ Campbell, who has worked in the publishing field extensively, discusses the issues facing aspiring writers.
BOOKED TO DEATH follows a would-be novelist, Sherry, and her friend MT, an executive at a respected publishing firm, as they plan an attention-getting crime. They have decided to join the notorious figures whose tell-alls and confessions have filled bookstore displays for decades. Both Sherry and MT, realizing that hard, literary work won't get them what they really want (fame, food and money) they try to be bad people. Sherry finds that hard work, too. MT, not so much! It's the dynamic of their friendship that makes BOOKED TO DEATH an interesting read.
What carries the book, though, is its humor, always based in reality. Sherry self-publishes a book. A lot of people do. But she has ten-thousand copies printed so she can buy them up and make it look as if people are clamoring for it. The books stay in boxes in her garage. But there's more to that story. A punchline awaits, and I'll not spoil it here.
There is one unadorned story arc, about a professional model, Isabelle, who undergoes unnecessary plastic surgery. In this novel about overweening ambition, Isabelle's subplot is a reminder of ambition turning on itself.
This is well worth the read.
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Before publication the author posted online that Thelma Todd was murdered and she (author) had proof. She doesn't.  In fact, she has only a theory based on a couple's alleged interview with police officials (unnamed) who said Thelma was murdered by "the mob." The book is essentially a rewrite of a previous biography and a pale imitation at that.
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Beware, this book is written by a racist bigot who advocates the murder of inter-racial couples.  Why Amazon is profiteering from the sale of hate is something that should be answered.
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If you think this book is amazing wait until you read Sexy Murder With Clowns. It's so brutal it's a Banned Book!
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As readable, even riveting at times, as this new Manson book is, I wonder if it was necessary to bring it before the public. Most of this information
has been out in various publications. I am concerned mostly for the families of the deceased victims. Why have all this dredged up exposing the
grisly details once again?  To have this gruesome reminder thrown in their faces is unfair. And to have this enter the public realm at this time
when there seems to be so much violence spread across our nation makes it doubly unfair. The author will earn a pile of money from the book and
 the new film which is sure to follow, but it will just feed into more violence as hidden dark sides of certain personalities break through. I argue not for
censorship but for good judgment and ethical standards.
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Wow I really love your work Jeff Kinney. I want to be an author when I turn twelve this June. I really need some tips about becoming a Jr author. Maybe I'll have a best seller. Look out for me. If I do succeed I'll say Lunch.
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The author or should I say authors have painted a picture nessessary to appease the American public
with more smoke and mirrors.
Here we a told is a guy and his crew who are trained to machine level in there skill set, which is the efficient killing of people.
First Debating where to shoot UBL and then stating if he is unarmed and no threat bring him in, but then to shoot him in the face unarmed and half naked in front of his wives.  What a joke.  There is no honor in what these men do.  They are cold blooded killing machines used a "tools" by our government to remove anyone in there way.
If we took all the money used to create these monsters and cured child hood cancer would not that be a much better thing.
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LOL...look at the past "Books" this guy has written.

That is all you need to know this is garbage. Actually, I am amazed any publisher would put their name behind this lobotomy victim.
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Were it not for much maligned lawyers, the legal system would collapse. Even worse, the legal thriller would cease to exist.
Thankfully, Jeffrey A. Cohen is a lawyer writing legal thrillers.  If his first published novel, The Killing of Mindi Quintana, is a reliable indicator, Cohen will soon have his own cult of celebrity.  If you have read the other reviews, you already know that Freddy kills Mindi, and uses that evil deed as his starlight stairway to celebrity status.  Cohen's Freddy is one of the most instantly unlikeable characters I've encountered in mainstream mystery fiction, and his art of manipulation is uncomfortably fascinating.  Everyone wants something. Saying "i'm just doing my job" is no different than "I was only following orders" -- both may be true, but neither are an escape route from culpability. The Killing of Mindi Quintana gives us both a fresh new novelist daring enough to blend surreal "as if" portrayals with harsh emotional reality, and a story line that is both compelling and relevant.  I'm not going to give away the clever twist ending (no spoiler here) because books are never about plots -- in the final analysis, books are about 328 pages and movies are about 110 minutes. The question is: Will you enjoy the book? Okay, this isn't a question of such burning importance that odds makers in Vegas are losing sleep over it, nor is it about to replace some jilted movie actress on the cover of PEOPLE.  Buy the book. Enjoy the book. It is my personal opinion that Jeffrey A. Cohen will soon establish himself a one of America's top "brand names" in the legal thriller genre such as Phillip Margolin and Steve Martini. Buy his first novel now and make room on your shelf for the many more to come.

Burl Barer
author and host of TRUE CRIMES on Outlaw Radio
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Hello all.
its hard to know how such bunk can be published , but it is a free world.
please take a moment just to look at the bios of the authors. that should set you straight. then vaccinate your kids before they suffer serious harm.
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You want to post a bully review; you reap what you sow.  Why waste talent by disparaging another author not on content but based on another authors success.  I am not sure what your intent was in writing this review, but I'm thinking it backfired.
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There is almost nothing one can say about... It is THE example of what will happen to the literature when ANYONE now can issue to the paper the withdrawals of its mental process, or simply the miasmas of brain, and then publish it through Kindle or something else or, in other words, just dump it over on the readers unprepared heads. Well, that the price we are all paying for the freedom of publishing.