What Critics Say about: Penny Mickelbury's "Love Notes"
Agatha Christie, eat your heart out...Mickelbury's prose is vivid, her characters' language often "salty" and the atmosphere in its various scenes is carefully crafted to put readers into the middle of the action…
- Stanley Bennet Clay
Mickelbury steps out on space, i.e., she dares to write characters you don't meet on every soap opera and TV drama, and she tackles topical issues that society likes to sweep under the rug...
By Judy Dothard Simmons
Quarterly Black Review January, 2002
In addition to their sleuthing, the couple deals with the struggles of balancing their personal and professional lives. Just when you thought George W. Bush had made the capital seem like a boring place...
Philadelphia Gay News
This novel is one of the few I've encountered that reaches for, and achieves, inclusiveness without being self-righteous or preachy. Go get it...
- By Sheryl LeSage
April 2002 The Liberty Press