Senator Love is a mystery featuring detective Fiona Fitzgerald, who is on the trail of a murderer in Washington D.C. The most apparent connection between the victims is the charming and womanizing politician Senator Love. Even as Fiona works to solve the case, she finds herself drawn by the senator's seductive charm -- strong enough to tempt even the stout-hearted to illicit pleasure. Written by Warren Adler (the author of the acclaimed War of the Roses) Senator Love is an insidious, compelling mystery that keeps the reader guessing both the criminal's and the heroine's intentions up to the very end.

Is the author, Warren Adler, psychic or just very in tuned with modern day politics in Washington? Senator Love has some shocking connections to the Levy/Condit case. A very attractive senator is surrounded by a string of unsolved murders, mostly his interns. Is truth stranger than fiction? In this case, it's a tie.

This is the book that got me hooked on the stories of Fiona FitzGerald, Warren Adler's woman D.C. homicide detective. There is not much mystery here since the killer is made known early in the book. However, it's a great story that uses bits of Washingtonian history into its well-constructed plot. I highly recommend it.

As the name implies, there is a lot of sex in this book . . . and how! A daring book about political seduction on a grand scale. Written before the days of Clinton (surprisingly), this book is not for the skirmish and faint of heart. I loved it!

Another Fiona FitzGerald mystery with bite. As with the previous novels, a good read and a lot of fun.

The untimely death of her husband, Chuck Waters, in an oil-drilling rig accident should have filled his widow, Frances, with despair. Or so thought his grieving parents, Charlie and Molly Waters. But Frances, abandoned by her husband for months at a time and left to raise their child Tray on her own, feels relieved and free. Newly married to engineer Peter Graham, Frances wants to put her bad memories of her first marriage behind her and go on with life in her new family. But where does that leave Tray?

Frances insists that all contact be temporarily severed between Tray and his Waters grandparents. Peter is adopting him and his parents will become Tray's paternal grandparents. It's only temporarily, she assures Charlie and Molly, until Tray has adjusted to his new situation. But Charlie and Molly, distraught at the death of their only child, long for visits with their only living blood descendant.

Desperate for visitation rights with Tray, Charlie and Molly go to court. They have a chance, says their lawyer. They live in a state which allows visits by grandparents if the court rules that they are "in the best interests of the child." But Peter has legally adopted Tray, and Charlie and Molly didn't contest the adoption. Legally, Charlie and Molly are no longer Tray's grandparents.

Troubled that the judge might rule that allowing Charlie and Molly to visit is in Tray's best interests, and pregnant again with Peter's child, Frances is upset at the prospect of a prolonged court battle. But she will not change her mind. Tray is her child and she resents interference from others over how she will raise him.

How will the judge rule?

The reader's heart nearly breaks during the sections about Charlie's retirement, and his and Molly's feeling disconnected from their power sense of family. But the lonely Frances, abandoned by her irresponsible first husband and his wanderlust, who has now found happiness and security in her new marriage, arouses compassion and empathy as well. Above all, the reader wants to know how Tray is doing with all the fighting in the background of his life. So does the judge, which brings about the resolution of the story. It's a powerful portrayal of four adults who can't stop loving the child that links them all.

I was obsessed over the movie for a long time and when I read this book it had the same theme and characters but it was vastly different than the movie. The ending was almost the same, but it was shocking how much they did to each other. Everyone seems to think it was about materialism only. I disagree. It was about investing twenty years of your life and wanting something to show for it, and I think their anger and revenge stemmed more from an attitude of 'How dare you waste my life' or 'How dare you ruin our family' that it was more the main theme than the house. The house just happened to be caught in the crossfire. It definetly makes you think, and is by far one of my favorite books.

It sent the message that material things can be dangerous in any relationship. I have read this book many times and each time I read it, it reinforces that idea.

It's Adler's best book, and yes, it's better than the movie. A funny, scary look at how far people can go when everything is at stake.

Looking for a light yet tasty summer read? Then look no further than Warren Adler's new novel, "Mourning Glory." It has all the right ingredients for a delicious way to pass a few hours. The basic plot concerns a middle-aged and attractive woman Grace Sorentino, a resident of Palm Beach, Florida, and her adventures. After being fired from Saks, she hatches a crazy plot to snare a rich husband. By going to the funerals of recently deceased women and cozying up to the new widowers! The novel really gets going and gets really good when Grace has to deal with the consequences of her actions. She didn't factor falling in love with her prey into her gold-digging equation! What works about this novel is that the people are very real and very finely drawn by Mr. Adler. Grace has flaws. Her daughter has flaws. Sam her "prey" has flaws. And Adler has a way of making you want to turn the pages as quickly as possible, to find out the next zany plot twist. If you're tired of the same old Oprah's book club recommendation, I suggest you give "Mourning Glory" by Warren Adler a look. It'll be worth your time and money!

As an avid reader of novels, I brought Mourning Glory with me on a trip to Venice thinking I would read it around the pool of the Cipriani. Instead I made the mistake of opening it at the beginning of my plane ride from Cincinnati only to find that I was immediately hooked and never closed my eyes through the entire trip causing me no end of jet lag in Venice. This novel has everything, humor, pathos and intrigue. Mr. Adler creates real complex human beings, throws them together with panache and suspense and forces on to turn the pages. Thankfully, the characters like Grace Sorentino the heroine of this novel linger in the mind long after the story has ended. The fact is that I read it again on the trip back and was even more fascinated as I discovered more interesting facets of the lives of the characters. I never write my thoughts about a novel, but this time I just had to register my opinion. I'm sure any reader of this book will agree with my assessment.

In this sweltering summer heat, reading Warren Adler's "Mourning Glory" was like a nice long gulp of delicious iced tea- refreshing and thirst-quenching! It certainly satisfied my thirst for a good book! This is Adler's first offering since "Random Hearts," a novel I also enjoyed. If you've read "Random Hearts" and enjoyed it, then you'll love "Mourning Glory." It's even better. What I loved about the novel, first of all, was the plot. Crazy but believable. An attractive, intelligent middle-aged woman Grace Sorentino down on her luck decides to get rich quick- by finding a rich husband via attending funerals of the Palm Beach Florida wealthy. Does she succeed? Well, she does find a recent widower to call her own, a handsome, dignified man named Sam. The plot thickens when love is thrown into the mix, and suddenly Grace's secrets threaten her happiness. But she isn't the only one with something to hide, Sam has secrets of his own as well. Also included are a wayward daughter and her skinhead, Neo-Nazi boyfriend. They add convincing and compelling family drama and reality to the novel. If you're looking for the perfect blend of humor, drama, laughter, and emotion, you can't go wrong with "Mourning Glory."

Another great book by this author. If this is your first but them all because you will really be pleased. They are just what I am looking for. Interesting and inventive stories and really grab your attention and move at a great pace. I really believed the hatred and pain the lead character was carrying around with him as he went on the hunt. The action was well written, not immature like so many of this type of book give you. You are really cheering this guy on.

The mysteries of Fiona FitzGerald have always approached provocative and daring topics-relations between races, political intrigues and sabotage, S&M. Now in this Fiona tale, she tackles the infamous pro-life battle. As always, very well written and is read in a fast frenzy of page turning.

This is the first Fiona Fitzgerald book that I read. She is a good lead character and I would probably read another one in this series. This book was boring and predictable. I suppose it would be more interesting if you participated in that type of sexual pleasure. There was no mystery.

This is another Fiona FitzGerald mystery that closely resembles the Levy/Condit story. (See my review under Warren Adler's Senator Love.) This time, it's a young intern to a Supreme Court Justice who is found brutally murdered. In my opinion, this is the best Fiona mystery to date. Intelligent, engrossing, and with no holds barred.

I read this book while spending some time out west. It has been awhile since I had read anything by McGuane. I enjoyed the characters and his prose. The story was compelling but the ending was disappointing. I'm not sure why he headed in that particular direction.

The thing I like most about McGuane is his sense of humor regarding the overlooked. His characters are normal people. But they are also edgy. They are gritty and fleshy. I sense though that he would rather be on a horse than writing a novel. I know I would rather be on a horse right now. This is a good book. I also reccomend "Some Horses". It is a book of essay's he wrote that every horse or book fan should read. I just read it for the second time.

I first discovered Thomas McGuane in a Paris Review interview in 1985. He is a man of eloquence of the type that answers to questions posed to him about his writing were so fascinating that I began immediately reading his entire body of work. So cherished are these novels in my cannon that I did not read them one right after another, but spread them out over years to properly savor each one. I would read Nobody's Angel, and delight in reliving it for a time, referring to it, quoting it, then when a year or so had passed, I read Panama, Bushwhacked Piano, Ninety-two In the Shade, etc., until I reached the point at which I was ready to read whatever new book came out. In 1992 McGuane turned away from the usual cast of kooky loners and boot-clad bon vivants and wrote about a family man, and his family, in Nothing But Blue Skies. This was a new step for a man who knew how to enjoy and savor the wilder side of life, but also was able to use dinstinct technical language in an entertaining way to describe cutting horses, fly fishing, or sundry ranching, as well as metaphorically tying the changes of the modern west into the changes of modern westerners, casting sentences and forging paragraphs that stand with the greatest of American literature.

In The Cadence of Grass, McGuane shows another step in his growth and finally, much to his chagrin, and despite all his attempts to demand otherwise, he shows us that age has brought him wisdom, as well as contemplation of mortality.

Is this his novel about death? No, death was dealt with face-to-face in Nobody's Angel, McGuane's cathartic wrestling with his sister's death in real life. The Cadence of Grass is about the events leading up to death. That we all die is of course a given, and although a patriarch's death is the McGuffin for this story, it is the events that lead up to and directly lead to death that he deals with for the first time in his writing. Until now, there was always a pervasive sense of immortality in McGuane's characters, even when some of them died. Cadence takes us up close to the events, and even the moments, that precede death, including the acknowledgement of those about to die that they are living those preceding moments. McGuane exposes his own vulnerability, his own personal weaknesses through his characters in this book, and one gets the feeling that unlike other of his novels, in which his feelings usually occupy only one character, in Cadence he spread out his feelings among all the characters, perhaps as a way of making the expression of those feelings less burdensome. I feel that if he graced one character with all this contemplation it would have made the character too intense and maudlin to let the story breathe. As it is, McGuane keeps honed his clever, sometimes cryptic dialogue and hilarious descriptive powers, but lets more of the weaknesses of humanity come through and rather than using them for comic effect, he sympathizes with those who show weakness and vulnerability, as if to finally say "I know I've made fun of all of you in the past, but I really do know how you feel."

In his ealier novels McGuane often wrote of characters on the verge of great changes, and carried us through the changes with the character. In The Cadence of Grass, the changes have happened, the transitions are over, and we are allowed to see something McGuane has not dealt with so much before, and that is what the changes have wrought, how the characters carry on, and what lies at the end of the trail.