Death on the Diagonal

by Carolyn Banks

Book Overview

"Carolyn Banks has a sense of style and wit." --The New York Times BEAD, TEXAS, IS A DEAD END. Little white houses, the yard-of-the-week competition, new hanging files in the insurance company--that's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449149684
• ISBN13: 9780449149683
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Death on the Diagonal is a delight

A knowledge of horses, combined with a sense of humor make this well paced mystery a delight as we follow the adventures of Robin Vaughan, a Texas horsewoman.

Death on the Diagonal by Carolyn Banks

I thought the book was pretty good. That's why on the scale from 1-5 I gave it a 4. I thought the book had a great plot with a lot of crazy twists and turns. I thought it was great that it kept you guessing who killed Towns. I also thought that the book did a good job of explaining things so the average person could understand. Instead of just saying she was holding a knife to her throat. They went into detail, they explained that she was holding an X-acto knife to her neck the sharp kind where if the victim made any kind of movement the knife would have plunged deep into the victim's neck. I thought it was great that every character introduced had a purpose one way or another. What I did not like about the story was that it did not go over a character long enough, I have a hard time remembering names and it would have made it a lot easier if they would have told the first and last name of the person. I thought the book should have been a little longer, because the ending is blah. It also doesn't leave a window for another book, but that can be a bad or good thing depending on if you like sagas or not.

Death on the diagonal

I thought the book was pretty good. That's why on the scale from 1-5 I gave it an 4. I thought the book had a great plot with a lot of crazy twists and turns. I thought it was great that it kept you guessing who killed Towns. I also thought that the book did a good job of explaining things so the average person could understand. Instead of just saying she was holding a knife to her throat. They went into detail, they explained that she was holding an X-acto knife to her neck the sharp kind where if the victim made any kind of movement the knife would have plunged deep into the victim's neck. I thought it was great that every character introduced had a purpose one way or another. What I did not like about the story was that it did not go over a character long enough, I have a hard time remembering names and it would have made it a lot easier if they would have told the first and last name of the person. I thought the book should have been a little longer, because the ending is blah. It also doesn't leave a window for another book, but that can be a bad or good thing depending on if you like sagas or not.

it may be a bit chaotic...but hey, so is life !

Allright, compared to the other 'Banks, this one's story seems a bit wobbly. But it's funny. Carolyn Banks has a sense of humor and reality that reminds me of the old tv-series "Soap". Really, they should make her books into a tv-serie. I'll watch.