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Neil Albert

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in Los Angeles, The United States

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https://www.neilalbertauthor.com

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Mystery, Fiction

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Ross Macdonald

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I am a trial lawyer, mystery writer, and retired foxhunter living in the Amish Country near Philadelphia. I started writing a series of mysteries in the 1990s and now I am returning to finish the series. I was very lucky to be published then, in the days when there were still independent bookstores and there was a chance to meet your fans face to face. As exciting as it was to be published, the best part was the fans, editors and other writers I met. Writing is far more collegial than people suspect.
I stopped the series in 1996 partly because I had run out of good ideas (I had plenty of bad ones) and because, at age 47, I had started riding horses for the first time in my life. Six months after my first ride I was fox hunting. It was very t ...more

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Average rating: 3.45 · 273 ratings · 53 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The January Corpse (Dave Garrett, #1) 3.52 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1990 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The February Trouble (Dave Garrett, #2) 3.40 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burning March (Dave Garrett, #3) 3.42 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tangled June (Dave Garrett, #6) 3.26 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cruel April (Dave Garrett, #4) 3.14 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Appointment in May (Dave Garrett, #5) 3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold July 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	August Hearts: The Dave Garrett Series 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	September Wars: The Dave Garrett Series 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angela's Path 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I read Clear and then West and loved both of them. Davies has a marvelous sense of language, a dry sense of humor, and great control over her plots. I expect to work my way through all of her work within the next year or so. I can highly recommend Cl ...more
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I am absolutely stunned that this book doesn't have a better rating. Anyone who takes this rating as reflecting the merits of the book is cheating themselves. It's a wonderful, quirky trip through the mind of a woman of early middle age as she comes ...more
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Neil Albert rated a book it was amazing Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I was deeply impressed by the author's book Downfall, which would convince anyone with an open mind that there was no alternative to dropping the bomb, and this one is even more rewarding. He starts with the view that the war really began in China in ...more
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Neil Albert rated a book it was ok King's Navy: Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and the Rise of American Sea Power, 1897–1947 by David Kohnen (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I should have known better when I saw that the publisher was Schiffer, an outfit located near me that has an uncomfortable fascination with bringing out memoirs of SS officers and German militaria. This is a very thick book and exquisitely researched ...more
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Neil Albert rated a book it was amazing The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An excellent one-volume history that covers a very controversial event in an insightful and even-handed way. The photographs are generally of poor quality but the maps are excellent. He covers the political problems in Spain that led to the war, the ...more
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Neil Albert rated a book it was amazing Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Anthony Doerr doesn't need another good review but I'm posting one anyway. I have read the book and also listened to the audiobook and they are both wonderful experiences. The plot is complex, involving story lines in present-day Idaho, Constantinopl ...more
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Neil Albert rated a book it was ok Held by Anne Michaels	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Overhyped because of the author's other achievements. And misleadingly described as a novel; it's a series of vignettes. Some readers have complained about the lack of plot but that did not bother me personally. Narrative can be a burden, and some of ...more
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You may know this author from Moo or A Thousand Acres. This was her second novel, and it was very ambitious. It's the story of the last years of the Norse settlement on Greenland in the 13th Century before they were wiped out by the Little Ice Age. I ...more
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Neil Albert rated a book it was amazing Ivans War Life & Death in the Red Army by CatherineMereidale	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book was originally published in 2006. I picked it up at a used book sale, assuming I was getting a soldier's memoir that would be poorly written but would have some interesting nuggets. This is much more than that. The writer is an English hist ...more
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