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Thad Brown

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After being born at an early age, I made it through the K-12 educational system (though I didn't like it). From there, I went on to pick up a graduate degree or two, travel a bit in the U.S. and other countries, and become a writer, among other occupations (all of them legal --cross my heart!). For the background of this book, though, one of the most important things about me is that I've been a lifelong admirer of strong, brave heroines who face life without flinching, and especially of kickbutt heroines: ladies who can swing a sword, handle a gun, or throw a punch; who can go toe-to-toe with a villain, look him (or her) right in the eye, and dish out justice. Growing up, I was a big fan of the ladies of Charlie's Angels and The Avengers ( ...more

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Average rating: 4.58 · 57 ratings · 38 reviews · 3 distinct works
The Smoking Gun Sisterhood

4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions
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Dark Pages

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011
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Hot Sun, Hot Lead

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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" The Revenge of Dead Horse Canyon by Marcha Fox is the third installment in the author's trilogy which fans have long anticipated. It is well worth the wait, with Fox and her co-author Pete Risingsun having pooled their intellectual resources in g" Read more of this review »
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Drop Dead by Lily Chu
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The Smoking Gun Sisterhood by Thad Brown
" Skip wrote: "The book is out of print, apparently."

This original 2009 edition is out of print, but the revised 2023 edition, [image] The Smoking G
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Note, Jan. 5, 2025: I've just updated this review, to correct a typo that italicized most of it!

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