Title: Deadlock
Author: Ruth Fenisong
Cover artist: John McDermott
Yours for: SOLD! (1/23/09)
Best things about this cover:
- This guy doesn't look dead. He looks tuckered out after an evening of sloppy hamburger-eating. He's got that silly, sated grin on his face. He does have dead-hand, though, I'll give him that. That, or he's amusing his house guest by making shadow puppets on the ground
- This man, and thus the couch, is apparently 8 feet long. Seriously, if the dead guy stood up, his head would clearly no longer be in picture.
- This is the day that Dr. Carlotta Fiore decided, "No more housecalls!" - another day, another gigantic, drunk, ketchup-stained man.
Best things about this back cover:
- Torn from today's headlines! ... seriously, TORN. See the tears. We tore it. Torn!
- "Gridley Nelson" is officially my new crossword-solving moniker / alter ego. I might even have to keep the "Lieut." title.
- "Basement sordidness"!!! Man, I really need to know what that is.
Page 123~
"No." Gaudio turned his wobbly head from side to side to implement the weak denial. The effect was grotesque.
Though surely no more grotesque than the use of "implement" as a verb in that first sentence. Yikes.
~RP
4 comments:
Hey! You already have "Rex Parker"! However, I could use an alter ego and "Gridley Nelson" just might work...I could be a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a quarterback. Or something.
Ah, yes, Gridley Nelson. Illegitimate half-brother to David and Ricky.
Ah, yes, Gridley Nelson. Illegitimate half-brother to David and Ricky.
That, I take it, makes him a half-Nelson?
And isn't it kinda weird that the back cover essentially advertises books from other publishers?
"Hey, that 'Key to Nicholas Street' sounds pretty good! And I've been looking for a striking balance of adventure-thriller and meticulously real novel of the law -- I should check out 'Death Ha...' by Michael...!"
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