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Jamie’s transformation is so longed-for that it can only feel cathartic, and the story’s conclusion is efficiently set up and threaded together for an ending that’s well-plotted and satisfying, although not exactly plausible or surprising.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022

The second, the well-plotted “Grudge Match,” was especially good.

From Washington Times • Sep. 8, 2020

A survivalist thriller becomes a study of trust and social class in “Rust Creek,” a well-acted, well-plotted backwoods noir.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2019

If you drew a Venn diagram for your reading habits — with a circle each for speculative fiction, well-plotted mysteries and satire — the categories would overlap in modest, but vivid, segments.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2017

Maybe, after all, he hadn't got the owners of the house so well-plotted out as he thought he ought to.

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield