Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo As we have learned since 2001, if we didn’t know
The Go-Between: A Novel of the Kennedy Years More than fifty years after his untimely death, John F. Kennedy still fascinates us. Frederick Turner’s The
The Care and Management of Lies Best known for her Maisie Dobbs post-World War I detective series, Jacqueline Winspear introduces an entirely new cast of
Painted Horses So many thematic threads appear in Malcolm Brooks’ novel, Painted Horses, so many ideas for mulling and musing. The romance of antiquity and
JUST BECAUSE How many of us who have children in our lives remember people telling us, “Enjoy them while you can because they grow up
I confess. I like Lee Child’s Reacher novels. That’s like saying I like pulp fiction or dime novels or soap operas or comic books or
Robert Graysmith is a San Francisco writer best known for his true-crime accounts of serial killers: Zodiac, Unabomber, and Amerithrax: The Hunt for the Anthrax
Today, we just published two new reviews by Ann Ronald. One is on Jack Todd’s Sun Going Down and the other is on Dorothy Wickenden’s
One more word on Roger Hobbs’s Ghostman: I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Ann’s copy of the book after reading her review, so
I have two articles from ShelfAwareness that I’d like to share. The first is dated July 5, 2013 and is taken from an article found
It’s been a long time since I’ve opened a book and literally fallen into its story. Courtney Collins’s debut novel, The Untold, is such a
This week Bookin’ with Sunny published Ann Ronald’s review of Hisham Matar’s Return, a novel about Libya, family, beauty, and terrorism. American readers and most
GOOD ROSIE! As a book reviewer, I have no favorite genre; if a book is well-written, I will unabashedly tout its merit. In the case
A SINGLE SPY Writing A Single Spy, William Christie turns a historical footnote into a complicated novel of international intrigue. That footnote, found in Professor
THE SECRETS OF WISHTIDE The Secrets of Wishtide is another Victorian murder mystery with a smart, articulate sleuth and dark Dickensian overtones. The premise of
The Grande Dame and Hitler’s Twin A Comedy of Errors and more. Sally Patterson Tubach subtitled her novel “A Comedy of Errors.” In truth, The
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