Review: Good Appetizer to the DeMaria Banquet
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 2, 2013
Don't know if you like French food?  Just stop by a French bistro, order the plat de jour and you'll find out in one sitting.  Chances are you'll hurry back for more.  Just so with the works of the thoroughly entertaining and occasionally profound Lawrence DeMaria creator of exceptional sleuths like Jake Scarne and Alton Rhode and their mind-bending, gut-wrenching and rib-tickling forays into murder and mayhem.  The READERS COMPANION to DeMaria's works is a fast, delightful immersion in his characters, their character flaws and the characters who alternately love them or try to kill them.  If you don't laugh and feel compelled to turn the next page consult a psychiatrist.  Chances are, like French fare, you'll hurry back for more.