NOVELS
Taking Flight
From The Best Reviews: "Even though she has been married twenty years with two children (teenage Davey and preadolescent Wendy), Los Angeles Community College Professor Julia Benson feels as if her life can fit inside a packed sardine can. She is unsure whether she loves her husband Mark or ever did while her dying mother residing in a Bronx slum, tells her to live life to the fullest. Julia hopes the two-week trip to Greece in which she, another professor Michael, and the office assistant Sabrina chaperone thirty female sophomores, will lead to some healthy flirting.
The trip proves a bust as Michael spends his time with Sabrina and the natives flirt with the students. Depressed on the way home, she meets Ted, an oceanic archeologist with his head in the clouds dreaming of finding Atlantis. As they hit it off, Julia wonders if she should run away to help Ted find his dream or be responsible to a spouse and two kids who cherish her.
Readers will appreciate the gender bending middle age crisis as Julia has her second identity issue after having obtained a new role when she returned to school to obtain a Masters and a teaching job so that she could be a professor not just a wife and mother. That proved not fulfilling enough making fans wonder whether the delightful protagonist will take flight with Ted or return to her adoring family. This character driven tale entices the audience because no one is nasty or abusive driving Julia away; to the contrary her family love her. Lynne Kaufman provides a fabulous tale of a woman on the crossroads taking stock of where her life is going while readers and her will wonder who she chooses."
Slow Hands
From The Word on Romance: "SLOW HANDS is a story about living each moment, taking risks and embracing life's most valuable offering: peace. Filled with famous quotes and sayings, the story imparts knowledge as well as entertainment, making you chuckle at an apt one-liner or cry with empathy or joy. Drawn into the lives of two sisters, their friends, families and all the others, Ms. Kaufman gives voice to those who are normally silent. SLOW HANDS is a tale of inspiration, desperation and devotion. Though I am much younger than the main character, I nevertheless felt I could relate to her plight.
"This book brings to life some important isuses about being a woman in the modern world. SLOW HANDS is a smart, intricately woven story that dares to challenge the norms of society. Filled with courage and uncharacteristic approaches, SLOW HANDS will stop and make you think."
From Romance Reviews Today: "SLOW HANDS is a delightful story with many layers. Sara and Coralee are finely drawn charactyers who have depth and life, and to whom readers can relate. An interesting and creative story. SLOW HANDS smoothly winds its way through our imaginations as we watch Sara and Coralee begin to make sense of their lives, those lives they thought were just fine until their mother died. The secondary characters, such as Sara's three patients and Simon, Slow Hands' manager, are all integral to the story and add interesting dimension and breadth. Highly entertaining with a provocative plot, SLOW HANDS kept me amused with its effortless writing. A perfect summer read, give this novel a try."
Wild Women's Weekend
For ages the four females would share women's only weekend together near the Golden Gate Bridge. Sabrina, Maria, Ann, and Deb look forward to this year as each has personnel trouble to deal with and escape feels good. At a bar, the four meet Hughie; Since he needs a place to stay and seems like a nice chap, they invite him back to spend the night at their lodging. The next morning they find their guest dead. The quartet decides to bury the drifter so that they would not have to deal with the police.
The women go on with their lives until a road crew dig up Hughie's corpse. The FBI begin making inquiries including questioning the four friends. Will one break and tell the truth or will they remain in solidarity as evidence mounts that they may have done more than inter a dead person and tamper with a crime scene?
This dark comedy will remind readers of the Hitchcock movie The Trouble with Harry. The story line is action-packed and fast-paced as the women jump from one disaster into another. Still the reason the tale is fun is the four pleasant females each has a distinctive personality that surfaces when they conduct the funeral service and when the Feds come after them.
—Harriet Klausner