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Neil Albert

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in Los Angeles, The United States

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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 · 275 ratings · 54 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The January Corpse (Dave Garrett, #1) 3.51 avg rating — 90 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) 3.44 avg rating — 41 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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If you are an Eastern Front nerd of a certain age, it's a good time to be alive. When I was a young man all we had were the memoirs of the German generals, which with the passage of time can all be summarized, "I was brilliant, my soldiers were all b ...more
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I picked up this book nearly at random--The Guardian happened to mention that there was a biting satire on the UN mission in Iraq available and I decided to try it on the audiobook. I was very impressed. As I write this, I am struggling to find the r ...more
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About fifty pages in, I was thinking of writing a humorous review--this book lends itself to parody. Think of the last 100 military histories you've read, including this one. Then get a hundred dollar bill and instead of using it to buy gin, break it ...more
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Neil Albert rated a book it was amazing Battle of Jutland: History s Greatest Sea Battle Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There (Voices from the Past) by Richard H Osborne (2016-05-30) by Richard Osborne	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 was first published in 2016 and I am astonished that I am the first one to review it. I stumbled into it in a remainder house and bought it thinking I was getting an oral history of Jutland. (BTW, if what gives you a reason to live is the hope o ...more
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Neil Albert rated a book it was amazing The Past by Tessa Hadley	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
A first-class novel of time and family. The structure was borrowed from an Elizabeth Bowen novel, A House in Paris, that i am now going to track down--the first section is set in the present, with frequent references to family events that happened a ...more
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Remember the days when all we had about the Eastern Front were the accounts from the German side? And how we all thought Paul Carrell was the final word? How our knowledge of the Battle of Kursk came from Martin Caiden's The Tigers Are Burning? With ...more
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I will start by saying it's not a book for everyone. If you need a plot you can follow effortlessly, you may find this book more demanding than you are used to. That being said, I thought it was wonderful. By happy accident, I listened to the audiobo ...more
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This book has been praised to the sky but I think that the praise comes because of its gay positivity. Nothing wrong with that--my first book got quite a bump in the LBGTQ community when it came out and I was happy for that--but we need to look at t ...more
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Well-written and thoroughly researched. The story is most interesting when it covers events up though 1800, when the Indian confederacies were still strong enough to stand up to white encroachment, at least at times. I was very struck by his point th ...more
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