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Review of Mercedes Coffin

September 15th, 2008 |

I have always loved the writings of Faye Kellerman. Her characters Peter Decker and Rini Lazarus have always been entertaining. Her latest book, Mercedes Coffin, is a great read for her fans and for someone new to her writing as well. I opened the book Saturday morning and couldn’t put it down until a few hours before I had to be at work at 11:00pm. Needless to say I wasn’t fit for much at work that night. But I couldn’t wait until my breaks to sneak in another paragraph or two before trudging back to work. By the time I got back home the next morning I had finished the book and was wondering when the next one was coming out. Of course, I have read almost all of her books with these two characters but I seem to have missed one.

I went to her website to see if there was another book in between that I had missed and low and behold she has done two other books that contain short-stories with these characters. Now I will have to go to the library and see if they are available. That is what I do when I’m broke otherwise I run on down to Books-a-Million to pick up the latest releases. I haven’t been keeping up on Ms Kellerman as the last two books were a collaboration with her husband. I don’t like his stuff as much however so I don’t read them unless I happen to be desperate for something new to read. Don’t get me wrong Jonathan Kellerman has some good characters but his novels tend to get a little graphic or have a tendency to drag a little bit.

Now their son has also published a few books. Jesse Kellerman has published 3 books so far each of them in January. I haven’t had the time to read these either so there is some more new material for me to look for when I get a chance to read another book.

Each of these writers have their own style. It must be nice to have all of that talent in one family. It gives each of them lots to talk about as well as having plenty of common ground. On the other side there are probably problems with “ego” with 3 famous writers in the family. Now from reading the excerpt on the ‘Garden of Eden’ on Ms. Kellerman’s website it notes that one of the stories “Luck of the Draw” is credited to Rachel and Ilana Kellerman. From the information on the web this is Faye and Jonathan’s daughters. WOW, how did they get all of their kids into writing. I’m lucky to get my children to text me let alone actually write a book.

Right now I am trying to homeschool another of my children. The first two did not work out so well but with my youngest daughter (who is 12) I may have a better chance of getting her through school. There is this great free resource for Florida called the Florida Virtual School. They have everything available online and free (well so far) beginning with 6th grade up through 12th. There was a post at the beginning of the semester that they have a sister site or resource available for younger children. They stress short lessons with lots of writing exercises in all of the classes including Math. So, despite everything at least my daughter is learning how to type a paragraph.

Cheers and until next time!

Jolene