"A Wanted Woman" (RIP Eric Jerome Dickey)

​My mother had one of Dickey's books -- one of the ones with the animated covers -- and that's how I first knew about him. I didn't follow his work much, but I read A Wanted Woman on audiobook at the time it came out. That was about six years ago.

The story wasn't bad. It was even a little edgy, especially the language. A couple of things about the book (well, the audiobook) that stuck with me were the repeated references to "the Kiwi" -- the main character -- and the narration. Zoë Bell performed some of the best voice-over work I ever heard in fiction, and Eric Jerome Dickey authored its script. 

Dickey died three days ago; I found out last night. 

He was 59.

A book review for A Wanted Woman (Eric Jerome Dickey) (Zoë Bell, narrator) (Dominic Hoffman, narrator)

"A Wanted Woman" by Eric Jerome Dickey (Penguin Random House)

Eric Jerome Dickey signing books (Credit: "#75 - Signing" by domesticat)

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961 - 2021)

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Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find dozens of her reviews, including one on Eric Jerome Dickey's A Wanted Woman, at landturn.com/reviews.

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