I don't know why I didn't just stop this one, because half way through I was getting really annoyed. I usually try to find something nice to say, as an author I know how terrible it is to have someone just say, "I hated it."But I hated it. Others might be fine with it, it's one of those shallow l...
Probably three and a half stars is more like it. My first Kate Wilhelm book and I may well read another. This was a good quick read. I liked the character of Barbara and her concern despite herself for Martin and Binnie. It's interesting the way she dashes off arrow prayers and she throws herself...
From the cover: Oregon attorney Barbara Holloway has an unusual new client. Louise Braniff, member of a group that anonymously supports worthy women's causes, asks her to represent gifted pianist Carol Fredricks, who is accused of murdering the manager of the bar that employed her to entertain. B...
Private investigator Charlie Meiklejohn is called on to follow the trail of a suspected arsonist but finds himself teaming up with his quarry to face a much deeper problem: a malfunctioning space probe spreading insanity in its wake.
(Edit to add: the review below contains what some may consider to be spoilers. But on the whole, I do not think that reading this review will spoil the enjoyment of the book for you.)Science fiction stories usually concern the impact of the progress of science on human beings. When the science ...
The Kelso/McIvey rehab center is a place of hope and healing for its patients--and for the dedicated staff who volunteer there. But David McIvey, a brilliant surgeon whose ego rivals his skill with a scalpel, wants to change all that. His plan to close the clinic and replace it with a massive new...
Jud Connors, a successful novelist, is murdered in his isolated cabin in the Oregon woods. His daughter, Abby, embarks on her own investigation, realizing that the clue to the murderer's identity is buried in her father's latest novel, finished just weeks before his death. But will she be able to...
With this extraordinary novel, Kate Wilhelm returns to the marvelous milieu of Death Qualified, bringing us a page-turning legal thriller of the finest caliber. After the harrowing events of Death Qualified, attorney Barbara Holloway isn't looking to take on any new courtroom cases - she's happy ...
Kate Wilhelm, a master of psychological fiction in America, delivers a legal thriller in which Barbara Holloway takes on the devil himself in her toughest case yet.When Barbara Holloway agrees to represent Maggie Folsum, she assumes it will be a case of securing back child support for the single ...
Seven Kinds of Death is a famous sculpture, but the name takes on new meaning when bodies start turning up at the creator's art colony. Husband-and-wife detectives Charlie and Constance are called on to investigate.
"Where would you place the mark in the rocks where the bullet struck? Please, indicate it on the photograph." He looked from his picture back to hers and finally touched a spot. Barbara marked it with a red pen. "Thank you. You said in your testimony that it is about four feet h...
was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2011. “Shadows On The Wall Of The Cave” was first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct. 2009. “Mockingbird” was first published in Northwest Review, 2008. &n...
The sea wasn’t reflecting now, the only lights that showed were those of the islands and the shore lights that were from two to four miles westward. The islands looked like an afterthought, as if someone had decided to outline the coast with a faulty pen that skipped as it wrote in sparkles. Here...
Middle Eastern royal families sent their daughters there to get new noses; Broadway stars changed the shape of their faces; politicians went for liposuction before an upcoming campaign. Accident victims went there to get rebuilt. Small, discreet, and correspondingly expensive, it could have been ...
He closed his eyes tighter, not willing to wake up and lose the little gain he had made. “You can’t just leave them wandering about,” one of two voices said. This was the reasonable one who sounded like a patient teacher. “I know that,” the other on...
His eyes were wide with bewilderment.“When do I have to come back? How many times?” Roberto asked.“Never,” Barbara said. “The judge dismissed the case. It’s over.”Roberto blinked, and spoke in rapid Spanish to his wife. She looked from him to Barbara, her eyes filled with tears. “It’s true? It’s ...
From the kitchen there now came the soft chugging of the dishwasher at work; closer, the clink of cup on saucer, a pop from the fireplace or a hiss; even closer, the nearly inaudible purr of Ashcan, who had settled on his lap instantly when he sat down. Outside, silently, the snow was piling up. ...
Delimbing, debranching, disjointing, disarming—he grinned—at least sawing them into manageable lengths; he surveyed with satisfaction the mess he had made. “Get ’em before the sap rises,” his neighbor Hal Mitchum had advised, “and you can burn the wood come fall.” They were old, tired trees that ...
He broke off what he had been saying and leaned back as Bailey entered. "Lets move out of the way," Barbara said. "Let him get some shots of the bar." They both moved away to watch him. When he was done, he snapped a few pictures of the rest of the room. Then Barbara said slowly, "Eric, maybe you...
The peace and quiet of Barbara's retreat on the Oregon coast is shattered when a terrified young boy calls to her as she walks along a deserted beach. Frantically he leads her to a cabin deep in the woods where his mother lies senseless and battered — clearly left for dead. Barbara runs for help,...
was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2011. “Changing The World” was first published in Asimov’s Magazine of Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2010. “The Fountain Of Neptune” was first published in The Magazine of Fant...
The first was from Lieutenant Draker. Charlie returned his call while Constance hung up their coats and put away papers they had left on the table in the sitting room. “He’s coming over in five minutes,” Charlie said. “I don’t think he’s happy. You want to call Dr. Warneck...
Charlie announced, “is loganberry pie, and I intend to have it. Ladies?” They both shook their heads. “Good. I eat. You, Beth, talk. Thumbnail sketches of the players at Smart House.” She looked toward Constance, as if for help, and got only an encouraging smile. Did this ...
The -North Coast News- came out three times a week, and it seemed to him that no one could publish a paper unless someone in charge was on hand until the press run. He knew that the publisher, Stuart Winkle, didn't care particularly, as long as the advertising was in place, but it wasn't right, E...
She would provide a thermos of coffee. That morning Tony came to fully appreciate the view of the drive up the coast, the wild surf and cliffs, the sudden stretches of beaches, well-spaced turnoffs where the vista expanded dramatically up and down the coastline, stunningly beautiful in both direc...
“Why us?” she asked rhetorically. “Why not us?” Charlie asked back. She grinned at him and sat down at the breakfast table where he was finishing his French toast. “That,” she said, pouring more coffee, “was Deborah Rice, nee...
was published in Fantastic Stories in 1956. Her first novel, More Bitter Than Death, a mystery, was published in 1963. Over the span of her career, her writing has crossed over the genres of science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy and magical realism, psychological suspense, mimetic, comic,...
Hank's hand squeeezed hers a bit and the rest went by in a blur of swirling sand and heat and wind-swept-away words heard only in her heart, not with her ears. They turned afterwards and looked up at the ship rising bluntly behind them, its snub nose obscured in the dust cloud that had pitted and...