Lynn Harnett
Lynn Harnett is a former journalist and magazine editor.  She has been writing book reviews since before the internet. She now writes a “recommended” column for her local paper, The Portsmouth Herald, and posts most of those reviews on Amazon.com. With her husband, author Rodman Philbrick, she has co-written 10 Young Reader books. She and Rod divide their time between Maine and the Florida Keys.
Lynn has reviewed the following for MostlyFiction.com:
2011 (Top Picks)
- The Glass Demon by Helen Grant (8-27-11)
- The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse (7-10-11)
- 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson (6-3-11)
- The Free World by David Bezmozgis (5-13-11)
- 13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro (3-25-11)
- The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger (3-25-11)
- The Good Son by Michael Gruber (2-13-11)
- The Border Lords by T. Jefferson Parker (2-5-11)
- The Cypress House by Michael Koryta (1-24-11)
- A Voice From Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth by Louis Auchincloss (1-12-11)
2010 (Top Picks)
- The Shadow Woman by Ake Edwardson (11-27-10)
- Edge by Jeffery Deaver (11-27-10)
- Paying Back Jack by Christopher G. Moore (11-21-10)
- Skeleton Hill by Peter Lovesey (10-30-10)
- Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan (10-23-10)
- The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant (10-10-10)
- The Whole World by Emily Winslow (09-27-10)
- Let the Dead Lie by Malla Nunn (09-11-10)
- The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman (08-21-10)
- Breathing Water by Timothy Hallinan (08-17-10)
- The Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende (08-13-10)
- A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei (07-20-10)
- Under the Dome by Stephen King (07-08-10)
- The Vera Wright Trilogy: My Father’s Moon / Cabin Fever / The Georges’ Wife by Elizabeth Jolley (06-13-10)
- Conspirata by Robert Harris (05-28-10)
- Elegy for April by Benjamin Black (05-19-10)
- Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley (05-16-10)
- The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick (05-3-10)
- Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker (04-30-10)
- The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall (04-21-10)
- Iron River by T. Jefferson Parker (04-17-10)
- The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine (04-11-10)
- Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal (03-31-10)
- Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd (03-21-10)
- Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler (03-04-10)
- Factory Girls:From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang (03-04-10)
- The Fourth Assassin by Matt Beynon Rees (02-23-10)
- Family Album by Penelope Lively (02-11-10)
- The Godfather of Kathmandu by John Burdett (01-22-10)
- Go With Me by Castle Freeman, Jr. (01-15-10)
- All That I Have by Castle Freeman, Jr. (01-15-10)
- Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton (01-09-10)
- Sunnyside by Glen David Gold (01-02-10)
2009 (Top Picks)

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