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Title: A Real Pleasure to Read
Review: I've read close to a thousand thrillers and mysteries, and BOOKED TO DIE is one of the best ones I've read recently. John Dunning is a remarkably good writer, and the prose in this novel is first rate. The mystery story is well constructed, and the ending comes as a pure surprise.Of course, the main attraction of BOOKED TO DIE is its bookseller hero. Almost every major character in this novel is a book lover and collector. Dunning, a bookseller himself, provides a lot of interesting detail and insights into the way the book selling business operates. A lot of the details in the novel are admittedly dated (it was published in 1992), but I found them fascinating nonetheless.BOOKED TO DIE isn't perfect, and I readily agree that some of the supporting characters are thinly drawn. That being said, the strengths of this crime novel far outweigh the weaknesses. All in all, this is a very entertaining read and I recommend it wholeheartedly.
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