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FROM: "Natalya Fishman" <[removed]@webrary.org>
REC'D: 5/5/02, 3:05 PM

Lorie,

See the Fiction_L thread on Grisham, Martini and Baldacci read-alikes in
the archives
http://www.webrary.org/Maillist/msg/2001/8/Re.GrishamMartiniBaldacci.html
and the compiled list of suggestions on our Booklists page
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/Lawyers.html (Lawyers, and Doctors and
Crime, oh my!)

Natalya

Natalya Fishman
Fiction_L Manager
Morton Grove Public Library
Morton Grove, IL 60053
[removed]@webrary.org
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

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>From: "Lorie J. O'Donnell" <[removed]@midyork.lib.ny.us>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: like Stephen King
>Date: Sun, May 5, 2002, 1:24 PM
>

> I have a friend/patron who loves John Grisham, but has read all of his
> books. Now he is looking to me to find him some new ones to read, but I am
> a children's librarian and I read primarily historical fiction and high
> fantasy. Any suggestions??
>
> Thanks
>
> Lorie
>
> "If you didn't want them to think,
> you shouldn't have given them library cards."
> --Elliott Gould as Harry Bailey in "Getting Straight"--
>
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FROM: "BookBitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 5/5/02, 3:05 PM

Ellis, David - just won the Edgar for best first novel, LINE OF VISION
Fairstein, Linda
Gutman, Amy
Lescroart, John T.
Margolin, Phillip
Martini, Steve
Meltzer, Brad
O'Shaughnessy, Perri
Parker, Barbara
Passaro, Vince
Patterson, Richard North
Scottoline, Lisa
Siegel, Sheldon
Tanenbaum, Robert K.
Turow, Scott

For any fan of Grisham's THE FIRM, I recommend CONSPIRACY.COM by R. J.
Pineiro. It's the same story only set in a computer software company
instead of a law firm.

Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Palm Beach County Library System

I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Lorie J. O'Donnell
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 2:24 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: like Stephen King

I have a friend/patron who loves John Grisham, but has read all of his
books. Now he is looking to me to find him some new ones to read, but I am
a children's librarian and I read primarily historical fiction and high
fantasy. Any suggestions??

Thanks

Lorie

"If you didn't want them to think,
you shouldn't have given them library cards."
--Elliott Gould as Harry Bailey in "Getting Straight"--

FROM: Mary K Chelton <[removed]@optonline.net>
REC'D: 5/5/02, 3:16 PM

I would recommend Steve Martini's Undue Influence as a readalike match. It's
about a lawyer trying to help his sister-in-law who is accused of murdering
her ex-husband's new wife. It involves legal ethics, government
involvment/interference, and a few good chase and attack scenes, all of
which I liked in mainstream Grisham. If the person likes his very first one,
Time Enough to Kill or The Chamber, this is not a match.

Mary K.
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of
Library and Information Studies, 254 Rosenthal Library,
Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367;
Phones: (718) 997-3667 (direct/voice/voicemail),
3790 (general office), 3797 (fax).

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 5/5/02, 7:30 PM

The Columbus Metro Library has a page on its site which all listmembers
should bookmark. It's like a DIY RA: you input an author or title and click
GO, and it gives you a list of possible readalikes. Here's what it
suggested for Grisham:

Meek, M. R. D.
Matera, Lia
McInerny, Ralph M.
McBain, Ed
Hailey, J. P.
Walker, Walter
Gardner, Erle Stanley
Martini, Steve
Turow, Scott
Friedman, Philip
Levine, Paul [J.]
Tanenbaum, Robert
Baldacci, David
Lescroart, John T.
Margolin, Phillip
O'Shaughnessy, Perri
Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor
Scottline, Lisa
Grippando, James

The site is at http://www.columbuslibrary.org/

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FROM: "Lorie J. O'Donnell" <[removed]@midyork.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 5/6/02, 1:01 PM

Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions. I should be able to keep my patron
in reading material for a while now!!

Lorie

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.  You can tell whether a
man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz--

FROM: "Kathy Loucks" <[removed]@cml.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 5/7/02, 10:36 AM

Thanks for the plug--I'm the person who has primarily been doing our If
You Like and RA files for the last 25 years or so. Please let me take
this opportunity to invite everyone to take a look at our website's
Great Reads section at www.columbuslibrary.org where we've been making
all kinds of additions and upgrades recently. Our latest is to make the
RA file web-friendly--it's greatly improved from the old OCLC SiteSearch
file I've mentioned on Fiction_L occasionally in the past. It's now
called Fiction Finder and you'll find a link on the right-hand side of
the Great Reads page. We're still doing some cleanup and
standardization to accommodate the change from the old original card
file to computer file, so cut us some slack, OK?! :-)

Kathleen Loucks
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Columbus, OH

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