Yawatta Hosby
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- Juridisk navn
- Hosby, Yawatta
- Fødselsdato
- 07-28
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Charles Town, West Virginia, USA
- Uddannelse
- West Virginia University
- Kort biografi
- Yawatta Hosby has resided in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia all of her life. She began writing stories at the age of eleven. In the 7th and 12th grade, she took creative writing classes. She enjoys hanging out with her writer's group "The Procrastinators," and she loves writng novels, novellas, and short stories.
Recently, her short story "Room For Two" was sold to the online literary magazine "The Write Place At the Write Time." And her debut mystery thriller "One By One" novel was released last month (May 2013).
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- Værker
- 9
- Medlemmer
- 35
- Popularitet
- #405,584
- Vurdering
- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
- 12
- ISBN
- 11
The various murder methods have been thoroughly researched and used to good effect in this story, and had me wondering who would do such a thing? It is obviously the work of a writer because he is noting what he can see, and how the murder makes him feel as he executes it - pun intended! However, as all the students are aspiring writers, and the professor is also a published author, there are lots of suspects for the completely inept detectives assigned to the cases to filter.
I thought the plot worked, and that it was an entertaining and not-too-scary read, with a few red herrings to keep the reader off balance. For me though, I would have liked to have known more about the killer's motivations beyond 'research', and understood any satisfaction derived from the killings, something which I think would have added to the tension in this story.… (mere)