The Writing Class Jincy Willett St. Martin's $24.95 HC

Both reader and writer will enjoy Jincy Willett's humor laden who dunnit, The Writing Class. In this novel, Amy Gallup, teaches a university extension course in creative writing. From the first night, her current group ranks highly. Their criticism is valid, their writing good, their willingness to get better lightens Amy's teaching load.

As the class progresses one of the members begins to take things too far. The end result being murder. Willett, deliberately creates and skewers a typecast group of students and their teacher and sets them off on the job of discovering who among them is the murderer. Any reader who wants to write should pick this novel novel up and laugh their way through learning a thing or two about what makes good writing a great read.

Dave Biemann