Deborah Grabien's Reviews
Reviews of Deborah’s Work
Aug.15.2012
Published by Green Man Review/Sleeping Hedgehog
I have been hooked on Deb Grabien’s novels since I had the great good fortune to read the first of her Haunted Ballads series. What pulled me in right from the beginning...
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Dec.17.2011
Published by Bookin' With Sunny
Ever wish you could be a part of a world-famous rock band and perform at venues in cities like Paris, New York, Berlin, London? Well, okay, but without the drugs and other...
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Sep.08.2011
Published by Booklist
The fifth JP Kinkaid caper sees rock band Blacklight gearing up for a major tour after its latest CD goes multiplatinum. Although the group has seen its fair share of success, the...
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Jun.01.2011
Published by Bookin' With Sunny
What a pleasure to be back with JP Kinkaid, his wife Bree, and the rest of the Blacklight entourage. Deborah Grabien, JP’s creator, has again set out to give life to an aging rock...
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Apr.01.2011
Published by Library Journal
Famous British rocker/blues guitarist JP Kinkaid has one of those golden life moments when young music journalist Ches Kobel introduces him to Bulldog Moody. Ches is writing a...
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Mar.15.2010
Published by Kirkus Reviews
"The descriptions of the park, its wildlife and Dark's mystical encounters are breathtakingly beautiful, fierce and evocative...the graceful prose, deft blending of realism with...
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Mar.15.2010
Published by Kirkus Reviews
"The descriptions of the park, its wildlife and Dark's mystical encounters are breathtakingly beautiful, fierce and evocative...the graceful prose, deft blending of realism with...
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Sep.17.2009
Published by Armchair Interviews
Rock star Kinkaid and his long-time love Bree are back in their home in San Francisco, after a rather chaotic tour with JP’s band, Blacklight. He has been asked as a favor to sit...
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Sep.16.2009
Published by Richmond Times-Dispatch
Some authors dazzle with a debut novel, only to find themselves never able to replicate their first effort. Others start out with a fairly good effort and improve, and that is the...
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Aug.01.2009
Published by Booklist
In the second entry in the JP Kinkaid mystery series (after last year’s Rock & Roll Never Forgets), JP has just come off a tour with his decades-old, enormously successful...
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Jul.13.2009
Published by Publishers Weekly
While My Guitar Gently Weeps: A JP Kinkaid Mystery Deborah Grabien. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-59096-3
In Grabien's diverting second mystery to feature witty Brit rock...
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Dec.01.2008
Published by School Library Journal
Adult/High School - JP Kinkaid, a member of the legendary British rock band Blacklight, is unnerved when he learns that Perry Dillon, a tabloid biographer, is writing an exposé of...
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Sep.21.2008
Published by The Mystery Reader
(She absolutely nails it: being a rock star is JP's job. That's precisely how he sees it. And since the story is narrated by JP, that's how the reader is supposed to see it, as...
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Aug.15.2008
Published by The BookLady Reviews
San Francisco writer Deb Grabien has done it again! Her new mystery series has just about everything for a great summer read, and certainly enough to whet our appetites for more....
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Jun.01.2008
Published by Library Journal
When pseudobiographer Perry Dillon begins an unauthorized biography of the British rock group Blacklight, JP Kinkaid, who is the band's guitarist, fears that all of his and life...
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About Deborah
Deborah Grabien is a cook, guitar player, cat rescuer, traveller, and all-around rocker chick. She also writes a little: she's the author of the Haunted Ballad series (St. Martins Minotaur), six standalone novels, and the Kinkaid Chronicles, the first of...
Connections
Causes Deborah Grabien Supports
EMILY's List (early member), Amnesty International (member on two continents for thirty years), Animal Welfare causes (we rescue feral cats), NARAL and...