Diane Donovan, Author at BOOKGLOW

Review: Eat The Evidence: First Book In True Crime Trilogy Chronicles Life Of Suspected Serial Killer 0
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- March 21, 2019
Bar Jonah was a suspected serial killer. Author John Espy is considered one of two experts in the United States in the area of pedophilic and paraphilic OCD. Eat the Evidence represents hundreds of hours of interviews with Bar Jonah and those who knew him well, and captures the extent of his life, actions, and
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Review: The Last Devadasi Evokes The Sights, Smells, And Sounds Of Indian Culture 0
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- October 15, 2018
Picture contemporary India, where popular star Kamala Kumari is also a member of the Devadasi caste, an ancient cult operating in modern times, dedicated to having girls placed in South Indian temples to serve gods and men. Kamala’s modern world seems to preclude such activities; but she becomes caught between tradition and romance in The
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Review: Beneath The Same Heaven, A Powerful Literary Piece 0
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- May 8, 2018
The initial story of American woman Kathryn (who marries Pakistani Muslim man Rashid) and their two children at first seems to mirror the nonfiction story of Not Without My Daughter, an account of an American woman’s involvement with an Iranian man which leads to her entrapment in the Middle East. But Beneath the Same Heaven:
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Review: In An Empty Room, A Powerful And Highly Recommended Story 0
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- April 9, 2018
An explosion in Vietnam devastates a Marine fireteam sent to a village to investigate the possibility of a bomb depot’s presence there. Only one of the five-man unit survives. Grossly disfigured, who is he? Burned beyond recognition, suffering from amnesia, and unable to speak, he has no more insight than anyone around him. But people back
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