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L.S. Sharrow

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Chicago, The United States

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Mystery, Jewish Literature, Suspense

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Sharrow comes from a family of storytellers, lithographers, painters, and glass artists, as well as truck drivers and steel workers. Her interests include Jewish history, feminism, evolutionary history, and paleoanthropology.

Growing up her family spoke four languages besides English: Spanish, Yiddish, Russian, and German.

She concentrates most of her writing on hard-boiled whodunnits with a female sleuth.

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The premise for Edwards’ psychological thriller is a story of perverted matchmakers. As a crime novelist, I was intrigued by the book cover and blurb. The author’s attention to police procedures and investigative techniques added authenticity. But I ...more
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David Isaacson’s My Other Half is a story within a story, a mystery which revolves around the identity of the main character, Jacob Green. I’m an American reader and a writer of hard-boiled noir. This book should be out of my wheelhouse, but I found ...more
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L.S. Sharrow liked Jane Griffiths's review of Gabriel's Moon: "I’ve been a Boyd fan for many years, pretty much since he was first published. He is a cracking storyteller, and I love how he plunders literature, travel, his own life, and history for his stories. He takes you all over the world. In this, his latest" Read more of this review »
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L.S. Sharrow liked Jane Griffiths's review of Savage: a Gina Slotkin Murder Mystery. Book 3 (Gina Slotkin Mystery Series): "What a cracking story. Set in Paris, not long after the Charlie Hebdo killings. Remember those? Workers at the satirical magazine were murdered by Islamists, after the magazine published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. I was living in France mysel" Read more of this review »
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