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Sherri Daley

Sherri Daley

Sherri Daley has been writing freelance for national and regional publications for many years, including MORE magazine, Car and Driver, and the New York Times. She is the author of a book about commodities traders and a ghostwriter for business motivational texts. As a freelancer, she has established herself as someone who will write about anything – from cancer treatments to the lives of Broadway stagehands to that new car smell, blueberry jam, and Joshua Bell’s violin. Her curiosity drives her to read about anything, too, and she’s eager to share what she likes with others. She says life’s too short to read a bad book. When she’s not reading, she’s tending her gardens in Connecticut where she lives with her cat and a cage of zebra finches, although she’d rather be living in Iceland. Visit her blog at sherridaley.com for more!

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Sherri Daley

Fiction

River Rules: Power Play Over Power Plant

It’s hard not to like a man whose idea of revenge is to rip out some scraggly landscaping on somebody else’s property and replace it with mountain laurel. Working in the dark of night with his pitbull Brutus for company, 54-year-old Peter Russo, star of Stevie Z. Fischer’s debut novel…
Sherri Daley
August 16, 2019
Romance

J.R. Ward’s Brotherhood is Back in “Blood Truth”

As far as vampires are concerned, we’ve come a long way since Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for the creepy, blood-sucking villain in Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror story.  A warrior in 15th century Romania, Vlad was notorious for impaling his enemies (while still alive and writhing) on stakes to…
Sherri Daley
August 12, 2019
Thrillers

Murder and Cannibalism in Preston and Child’s Latest

I don't always like mysteries. Maybe some mystery writers are so focused on spinning a web, leaving enough clues but not enough, that they neglect to build strong characters – protagonists readers root for, villains hidden in plain sight, secondary and tertiary characters lurking around as a diversionary tactic. Without…
Sherri Daley
August 9, 2019
Fiction

Sewing and Growing in “The Oysterville Sewing Circle”

Susan Wiggs’ latest, The Oysterville Sewing Circle (William Morrow), is billed as a novel about domestic violence, but it is also a love story – and not the sturdy love between our protagonist Caroline Shelby and Will Jensen, her handsome, long-time childhood crush. Underneath the more obvious storyline is the…
Sherri Daley
August 7, 2019
Fiction

A Parisian Affair for Fans of “My Brilliant Friend”

From the very start, I wasn’t sure about Hannah - a small, thin girl playing chess against herself in the damp cloakroom of an all-girls boarding school. It’s here we’re introduced to a budding friendship between the narrator, Claudia, and this mildly enigmatic woman-child who tells her about-to-be-new best friend…
Sherri Daley
July 22, 2019
Fiction

Down the Rabbit Hole in Search of the “Truth”

It's no surprise that Jaclyn Moriarty is an established writer of young adult literature. Billed as her adult debut, Gravity Is the Thing (HarperCollins) has the fresh, crinkling lilt of a storybook. Thirty-five-year-old Abi Sorensen, our story's heroine, navigates love, loss, and the search for the meaning of life like…
Sherri Daley
July 18, 2019
Nonfiction

Pulitzer Winner Elbows Her Way Through a Male World

If you were already a fan of Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie, this collection of her essays will make you want to be her new best friend. In Words and Worlds: From Autobiography to Zippers (Delphinium Books), she writes about her time at Radcliffe when it was still an all-girls…
Sherri Daley
May 14, 2019

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