Wow! Paragraph after paragraph, page after page, Chris Pavone’s new novel, The Accident, just keeps coming at the reader, not like a runaway freight train
Repetitive plots and mythic threads run through many, many novels of the American West. The family ranch or farm, beset by change, barely holds a
Why do we need yet another book about the life and times of Ernest Hemingway, especially when there are already so many good ones? Because
Flappers: Six Women in Search of a Dangerous Generation Judith Mackrell, author of Flappers, presents a wealth of meticulous research in lively, vivacious prose. She
“Did all women married to well-known men struggle for recognition?” So Robert Louis Stevenson muses in Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan’s new
A pattern is emerging. I seem to be revisiting authors I’ve already reviewed for “Bookin’ with Sunny.” Now I’m going back to their earlier books
Not long ago I enthusiastically reviewed Chris Pavone’s new novel, The Accident, for “Bookin’ with Sunny.” Because I liked The Accident so much, I immediately
Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson, is what I might describe as a double-layered coming-of-age novel. A sixty-seven-year-old man contemplates the events of his fifteen-year-old
I read this entire novel in a single day. The Farm, by Tom Rob Smith, is a fascinating psychological mystery thriller that both puzzles and intrigues
Noah Charney founded and now directs an international think tank on art crime. The Association for Research into Crimes Against Art (ARCA) aids police and
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
When I read a novel with an underlying premise that I can’t quite believe, I rarely like the book. Queen Sugar, by Natalie Baszile, is
For once, I am at a loss for words! White Ginger, by Thatcher Robinson, is indescribable, delightfully so. A mystery, a thriller studded with violence,
Hard Country, A Novel of the Old West and Backlands, A Novel of the American West New Mexico author Michael McGarrity has written a dozen mysteries featuring
If my internet calculations are correct, nearly two hundred sequels to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice have been written! Noted mystery novelist P. D. James
TaraShea Nesbit made a stunningly smart decision when she wrote The Wives of Los Alamos. She chose to tell their stories through a collective consciousness
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