The Washington Times, November 10th, 1996
With her very first book, Carole Epstein appears ready to join the ranks of Sarah Shankman and Joan Hess with her ability to create a character as welcome as a good gossip with friends. In this first outing, Perilous Friends (Walker, $21.95, 311 pages), Miss Epstein has given us a fully realized character who all but steps off the page and - even more surprisingly and delightfully - surrounds her with friends who are equally well realized.
It is a most unusual writer who develops a character so completely in a first book. At any rate, PR honcho Barbara Simons has been downsized out of a job...
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