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by Tonino Benacquista
Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN: 1-904738-16-8
198 pages, softcover
$14.95The worlds of art, billiards, forgery and murder collide in Tonino Benacquista’s Framed, which is translated from the original French by Adriana Hunter. It’s the story of Antoine, an art gallery employee by day and serious pool player by night. When he attempts to stop an art theft, his world is turned upside down in the absolute worst way, and he eventually finds himself framed for a gruesome murder everyone thinks he committed.Benacquista’s almost poetic writing is fast paced and darkly humorous. He doesn’t treat his characters kindly, as exemplified by Antoine’s condition, but he does handle them realistically and with respect. If you’ve ever spent any amount of time in the art world, you know it is inhabited by talented madmen, a point the author plays on to full effect without ever really going over the top as so many other writers often do.The murder mystery is a genre that can sometimes get a little stale. It’s fantastic to see a writer like Benacquista shake things up in a very positive way. If you’ve grown tired of the same old tales, pick up this book and have your faith restored.— D.BRUNELL
by Sandra Worth
End Table Books
ISBN: 0-9751264-0-7
340 pages, paperback
$16.95This historical romance is the first in a series of three novels planned by the author, this one representing Richard III as a man much more sympathetic than the villain with whom Shakespeare has made most of us familiar. In the author’s note, Worth explains that rather than being “England’s most reviled and villainous monarch,” Richard III is responsible for giving “us a body of laws that forms the foundation of modern Western society” including “bail, the presumption of innocence, protections in the jury system against bribery and tainted verdicts, and ‘Blind Justice’–the concept that all men should be seen as equal in the eyes of the law.” In Worth’s well-researched version of the story, Richard is a hero.
Worth tells this dramatic story from Richard’s point of view, beginning in his childhood and ending far before he becomes king. Throughout the course of the novel, Richard’s loyalty to his brother King Edward IV is severely tested, especially when Edward refuses for so long to give Richard permission to wed his childhood sweetheart Anne Neville. Will Richard stay true to his motto Loyaulte Me Lie, Loyalty Binds Me, even when his loyalty to the king forces him to battle against Anne’s father, the Earl of Warwick? The story is quite well-told, such an excellent read that I look forward to finding out what happens next to Worth’s good Richard III. Let’s hope Worth is a fast writer. — C.CRENSHAW
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