Ellen Byerrum
Auteur de Killer Hair
Séries
Œuvres de Ellen Byerrum
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- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- Bachelor's degree in Journalism
- Professions
- former Washington, D.C., journalist, playwright
- Organisations
- Sisters in Crime Chesapeake Chapter, Dramatists Guild
- Courte biographie
- Mystery and thriller writer Ellen Byerrum is a former journalist in Washington, D.C., as well as a produced and published playwright. As challenging as it is, she tries not to repeat herself in her writing, and in pursuit of research and keeping things fresh, she studied for and received her private investigator’s registration for Virginia. She has also researched haunted clothing at the Smithsonian Costume Collections, toured a dying velvet factory in Virginia, and interviewed a host of experts for her books. And while looking into beekeeping and honey making for her latest mystery, she got too close and wound up with a bee sting on her nose.
Her latest book, THE BRIEF LUMINOUS FLIGHT OF THE FIREFLY, is the 1940s Prequel to her Crime of Fashion Mysteries, and features a very young Mimi Smith, the “Great-aunt Mimi” mentioned throughout the series. FIREFLY takes place during WWII in Washington, D.C., in the hot and humid month of June 1943.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 17
- Membres
- 1,515
- Popularité
- #16,979
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 44
- ISBN
- 55
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 3
For the most part, I enjoyed this story. Esme is a feisty, likeable protagonist and I liked most of the other characters especially the theatre crowd. The dialogue is well-done and mostly stays true to the time period. The mystery is interesting but, and this is my biggest problem with the book, for much of the middle of the tale, it gets pushed aside by the play, the romance, and a flu with symptoms very much like the 1918-20 pandemic. And I suspect it’s just me but I felt the book could have been a lot shorter and with a faster pace without all the descriptions of clothes especially all the gowns she wore and the repeated explanation of where she got them. By the end, I just skipped over any references to clothes regardless of who was wearing them. But, as I said, and judging from other reviews, this is more a me problem. Overall, I did enjoy the story and give it 3.5 rounded up to 4 stars.
Thanks to Netgalley and Lethal Black Dress Press for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review… (plus d'informations)