Fertile Ground: A Mystery

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Summary: Fertile Ground stays in one's mind
Review: I just love a book I don't easily forget. I'll always remember Fertile Ground. The fertility clinic information is fascinating while the plot and subplots are great. Rochelle Krich introduces a wonderful protag whom I hope I will find as I explore the other book worlds of Ms. Krich. Full of surprises (and red herrings for people like me), Fertile Ground is extremely entertaining. After you read it, you will never wonder, looking at the book years later, if you have read it. This is a wonderful quality especially as I have bought books I've already read many times!

Rating:
Summary: Fertile Ground stays in one's mind
Review: I just love a book I don't easily forget. I'll always remember Fertile Ground. The fertility clinic information is fascinating while the plot and subplots are great. Rochelle Krich introduces a wonderful protag whom I hope I will find as I explore the other book worlds of Ms. Krich. Full of surprises (and red herrings for people like me), Fertile Ground is extremely entertaining. After you read it, you will never wonder, looking at the book years later, if you have read it. This is a wonderful quality especially as I have bought books I've already read many times!

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Summary: Major disappointment
Review: In a mystery novel filled with implausible motives, I learned a lot about fertility and Juddaism. But the characters were paper thin, the dialogue dull, and the setting and atmosphere all but non-existent. I'd like killers with real emotion and real motives, but Krich stretches at every turn to make characters do things that are simply unrealistic. It would be a forgiveable sin if the story itself didn't bog down in minute details of file cross-referencing, endless phone calls to hash over every iota of the case, and so much interior monolgue that it puts the reader to sleep.

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Summary: tightly-woven plot about a fertility clinic with subplots
Review: Praise to Rochelle Krich for bringing yet a new heroine to her novels. Dr. Lisa Brockman is wonderful. I can usually figure out the 'bad guy' by the first half of a book, but this one kept me guessing all the way until the very end. Very well written and would love to see more of Dr. Lisa Brockman.

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Summary: Krich hits another home run
Review: Rochelle Krich qualifies as one of the best, yet least known, mystery writers of our time. With Fertile Ground, she delivers a taut, well-written suspense thriller -- the best of her books I have read. A plus is her ability to weave Jewish themes into the book in a way which leaves the material accessible to all, regardless of religion. This was a book I could not put down; she is every bit the equal of Faye Kellermann, and far superior to allegedly touted new writers like Lisa Scottoline.

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Summary: tightly-woven plot about a fertility clinic with subplots
Review: rochelle krich writes consistently thought-provoking, fast-moving books and injects bits of her jewish background which are woven into the major theme: i can't read her books fast enuf and am always amazed at the twists and turns of her stories...i love her "real" characters.

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Summary: Krich hits another home run
Review: Rochelle Krich's books are everything good mysteries should be: tautly written, suspenseful, delivering a satisfying, surprise ending. "Fertile Ground," a mystery surrounding a murdered egg donor at a Westside L.A. infertility clinic and the shenanigans surrounding the operation of that clinic, may include more information on the science of egg donors than some readers may want. Still, I found it fascinating, and Krich skillfully connects the many interconnected pieces of the puzzle involving Dr. Lisa Brockman and her colleagues (including her fiance), the murdered egg donor, and the anxious recipients of those eggs who now wonder whose child they are really carrying. The suspense builds up quickly, as the stakes for Dr. Lisa Brockman become life-or-death unless she gets to the bottom of the crimes at her clinic. A great page-turner.