Pets in novels! - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T11:04:00Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/537324:Topic:145632?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A146045&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLove your Daisy lady, btw!
Ye…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-06-27:537324:Comment:1482542008-06-27T06:39:11.760Zcarole gillhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/PhyllisDietrichson
Love your Daisy lady, btw!<br />
Yes, me too. Dog person but hugely!<br />
I would throw a fit if I read about a dog dying. It would not only put me off the book, but I'd have to go and lie down! And I mean that!<br />
That's terrific Carola, a doggie finding a clue! hmm. going to mull that over.<br />
Good luck with your book cover discussion!<br />
and thanks for your reply.
Love your Daisy lady, btw!<br />
Yes, me too. Dog person but hugely!<br />
I would throw a fit if I read about a dog dying. It would not only put me off the book, but I'd have to go and lie down! And I mean that!<br />
That's terrific Carola, a doggie finding a clue! hmm. going to mull that over.<br />
Good luck with your book cover discussion!<br />
and thanks for your reply. Me too! I found an English ma…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-06-26:537324:Comment:1481832008-06-26T23:18:35.529ZCarola Dunnhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/CarolaDunn
Me too! I found an English mainstream novelist, Mary Wesley, whose writing I really enjoyed until I realised I'd read three in a row in which she killed a dog, one way or another. That was the end as far as I was concerned.<br />
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I'm a dog person. I didn't add a dog to my Daisy Dalrymple series until the seventh book, when Daisy persuades her fiance, DCI Alec Fletcher, to let his daughter adopt a mongrel puppy (who is promptly sick in the car). She doesn't appear in all the books, but in Mistletoe…
Me too! I found an English mainstream novelist, Mary Wesley, whose writing I really enjoyed until I realised I'd read three in a row in which she killed a dog, one way or another. That was the end as far as I was concerned.<br />
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I'm a dog person. I didn't add a dog to my Daisy Dalrymple series until the seventh book, when Daisy persuades her fiance, DCI Alec Fletcher, to let his daughter adopt a mongrel puppy (who is promptly sick in the car). She doesn't appear in all the books, but in Mistletoe and Murder, she finds an important clue, and in my upcoming Black Ship she finds the body. For some reason St Martin's art dept decided to put her on the cover, rather than the black ship.-- So, back to the covers discussion... thanks for that, Sue!
sounds…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-06-25:537324:Comment:1478962008-06-25T17:49:53.114Zcarole gillhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/PhyllisDietrichson
thanks for that, Sue!<br />
sounds good.<br />
I like pets in novels (and also cooking or any food that sounds good)!<br />
for instance, Lawrence Sanders always had me salivate over pastrami sandwiches!<br />
thanks.
thanks for that, Sue!<br />
sounds good.<br />
I like pets in novels (and also cooking or any food that sounds good)!<br />
for instance, Lawrence Sanders always had me salivate over pastrami sandwiches!<br />
thanks. The first crime series that c…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-06-25:537324:Comment:1478932008-06-25T17:47:48.934ZSue Dawsonhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/SueDawson
The first crime series that comes to mind with a pet is the Spenser series by Robert B. Parker. A dog is always part of the household. In fact, Parker combines two of my favorite things: dogs and good cooking. I like that fact that his characters and pets age--more realistic, I think.
The first crime series that comes to mind with a pet is the Spenser series by Robert B. Parker. A dog is always part of the household. In fact, Parker combines two of my favorite things: dogs and good cooking. I like that fact that his characters and pets age--more realistic, I think. ooh never saw your reply!
the…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-06-20:537324:Comment:1470782008-06-20T08:29:07.159Zcarole gillhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/PhyllisDietrichson
ooh never saw your reply!<br />
there's a place for everything.<br />
I think some of us are just focusing on crime novels that tend to be more serious.<br />
But hey! I love a light hearted talking animal story, why not!<br />
you go, girl!
ooh never saw your reply!<br />
there's a place for everything.<br />
I think some of us are just focusing on crime novels that tend to be more serious.<br />
But hey! I love a light hearted talking animal story, why not!<br />
you go, girl! LOVED that!
Thanks! So vivid.…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-06-20:537324:Comment:1470762008-06-20T08:26:24.248Zcarole gillhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/PhyllisDietrichson
LOVED that!<br />
Thanks! So vivid. You had me chuckling.<br />
Yes, as long as he's king now. That's what counts but you do miss them.<br />
Our dogs had puppies last summer and I was told one of them<br />
VERY happily living on a farm just became a DAd (10 mos)! I miss him and the other (four) so much, so i know what you mean.<br />
Same about the scotch footprints. We just finished decorating the living room (wall paper I loved) notice the tense?!<br />
The Grandfather, Indiana, who is still under two has already destroyed…
LOVED that!<br />
Thanks! So vivid. You had me chuckling.<br />
Yes, as long as he's king now. That's what counts but you do miss them.<br />
Our dogs had puppies last summer and I was told one of them<br />
VERY happily living on a farm just became a DAd (10 mos)! I miss him and the other (four) so much, so i know what you mean.<br />
Same about the scotch footprints. We just finished decorating the living room (wall paper I loved) notice the tense?!<br />
The Grandfather, Indiana, who is still under two has already destroyed one spot. Next to the door that he destroyed as a puppy, talk about claw marks) We thought he was too adult now, but noooo!<br />
I had a cat I adored and had it adopted when I left the States to marry (badly as it turned out)! first marriage.<br />
Sometimes I wonder if Mimi (my beautiful cat) wished it on me! One time, before I had to rel…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-06-20:537324:Comment:1470362008-06-20T04:20:32.049ZDADavenporthttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DADavenport
One time, before I had to relocate my cat because the two Scotties and the Chessie thought he was a badger that must be destroyed, I had let him in with me and MacDuff. Duffer is the one who listens the best and Tybalt (the Chessie) was in the bedroom with the hubby and Cameron (the other Scottie) was in with my mom. I actually believed I had negotiated a truce and I was working on a story for Flashing In The Gutters, sipping a couple of fingers of scotch. Duffer was fine, until Leonato jumped…
One time, before I had to relocate my cat because the two Scotties and the Chessie thought he was a badger that must be destroyed, I had let him in with me and MacDuff. Duffer is the one who listens the best and Tybalt (the Chessie) was in the bedroom with the hubby and Cameron (the other Scottie) was in with my mom. I actually believed I had negotiated a truce and I was working on a story for Flashing In The Gutters, sipping a couple of fingers of scotch. Duffer was fine, until Leonato jumped down from a table . Duffer snapped and lunged and Leonato leaped on the desk and landed a foot squarely in the middle of my Macallan's, than ran hell for leather for the spare room, trailing paw prints of scotch across the furniture in the living room with MacDuff on his heels. Probably the only time you'd ever see me laughing as I poured Macallan's down the drain!<br />
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What a crew. I sure miss that cat, but he's in a home where he is king and not having his life threatened by a pack of feline killers. Will have to check that out.…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-06-15:537324:Comment:1462762008-06-15T20:03:28.860Zcarole gillhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/PhyllisDietrichson
Will have to check that out. sounds like i'd love it!<br />
thanks so much!<br />
Just going to see if I can hunt it down now!<br />
cheers.
Will have to check that out. sounds like i'd love it!<br />
thanks so much!<br />
Just going to see if I can hunt it down now!<br />
cheers. I'd like to add that I read K…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-06-14:537324:Comment:1460562008-06-14T02:31:05.936ZDawn M. Kravagnahttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DawnMarieKravagna
I'd like to add that I read Koontz' books because of the golden retriever characters. Usually the only modern times novels I'll read have animals in them. Otherwise, I tend to read historical mysteries.
I'd like to add that I read Koontz' books because of the golden retriever characters. Usually the only modern times novels I'll read have animals in them. Otherwise, I tend to read historical mysteries. I loved The Watchers, also. T…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-06-14:537324:Comment:1460542008-06-14T02:29:29.467ZDawn M. Kravagnahttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DawnMarieKravagna
I loved The Watchers, also. The scene where the baboon is holding the Mickey Mouse Disney tape at the end was heart breaking. And that opening scene where Einstein keeps trying to warn the guy that danger is coming and he's too dense to figure it out: very exciting! Few novels have gripped me emotionally as that one did. Koontz has written other novels with goldies, but that one was his best so far that I've read--in my opinion, of course.
I loved The Watchers, also. The scene where the baboon is holding the Mickey Mouse Disney tape at the end was heart breaking. And that opening scene where Einstein keeps trying to warn the guy that danger is coming and he's too dense to figure it out: very exciting! Few novels have gripped me emotionally as that one did. Koontz has written other novels with goldies, but that one was his best so far that I've read--in my opinion, of course.