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Keep Watch Over Your Children: Danger Lurks Everywhere, By Marilyn Stasio

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In the article “Keep Watch Over Your Children: Danger Lurks Everywhere,” the author, Marilyn Stasio summarizes four crime novels with little insight into the impact of each novel. However, the first novel, “The Perfect Nanny,” Stasio delights in the intricacy of the author’s ability to develop believable characters that contribute to the questioning of why two children are murdered. Similarly, “The Bomb Maker” is applauded for succeeding in the crime genre of novels through the tension built from random bomb placements. Regrettably, Stasio loses enthusiasm for the novels after the first two reviews. Consequently, the last two book reviews turn into well-developed summaries of the novel, but lack of an overall impression about the books. However,

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