Diane Chamberlain’s latest mystery, The Last House on The Street, is a provocative title for a provocative mystery that takes forty-five years to solve. The
The Clockwork Crow, first in a new series by Catherine Fisher. I feel on pretty sure ground when reviewing children’s picture books, but lacking a
BEAUTIFUL BAD Beautiful Bad, the oxymoronic title of Annie Ward’s savagely violent novel, sums up the action precisely. Beautiful people doing bad things, beautiful prose
DOG ON IT Please don’t wait for the dog days of summer to read Spencer Quinn’s Dog On It. Based on our present pandemic restrictions,
BRADSTREET GATE An unsettling novel with an unsettled ending, Bradstreet Gate opens on the tenth anniversary of a murder committed on the Harvard campus. Robin
THE CURRENT I just finished reading another “Bookin’ with Sunny” novel that I couldn’t put down. Tim Johnston’s The Current, a mystery thriller that careens
HOUSE. TREE. PERSON. When one is recovering from surgery having books around the scatter is a terrific way to while away the hours between meds.
The Girl Before The first mystery to be solved: who is JP Delaney? Before writing any book review, I generally check online to see what
THE FIFTH PETAL Brunonia Barry is another contemporary author who can deftly embroider three narratives into a single story. The Fifth Petal takes place during
These are installments three and four in Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs detective series. The Great War continues to cast cool and disconcerting shadows onto survivors’ lives
Tahoe Ghost Boat: An Owen McKenna Mystery Driving down Spooner Summit on my way to South Lake Tahoe from Reno, I had no trouble staying
This one makes me so happy: Irish writer Benjamin Black’s Quirke novels (A Death in Summer) will be coming soon to your local tv or whatever
The back cover describes Kate Taylor’s A Man in Uniform as a “book deeply engaging for readers of mysteries as well as upmarket historical fiction.”
Last evening I was talking with two poet friends about the term ‘niche writer.’ We agreed that formula prose is a lesser sort of creation,
It should be easy to return a twice-stolen masterpiece – stolen once from a Jewish family by the Nazis and a second time from the
Recommending a book for dad is much easier than a title for mom, at least that was my experience when I pounded the brick and
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