Granite Harbor is the name of a small town in Maine that holds tightly to its past. It's a quiet town where a British writer who has run out of stories can get a job as the town's only police... Continue Reading →
The Mystery Writer is another stand-alone mystery by Sulari Gentill whose freedom from the Rowland Sinclair series has led to wildly inventive, somewhat improbably story lie this one. It begins when Theidosia quits college and Australia, heading to the US... Continue Reading →
The Tainted Cup begins with a strange and extraordinary death and Dinios Kol is dispatched to investigate. He is an assistant to a remarkable detective named Ana Dolabra in a relationship analogous to Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe. Like Wolfe,... Continue Reading →
When the school year begins at Here, and Only Here, a teacher assigns the students to their double desks, one above and one below the line. That line becomes all important because the below students give the above students their... Continue Reading →
The Warm Hand of Ghosts is a historical novel with a touch of magical realism about the awful war in the fields of Flanders where death, not poppies, was the only harvest. In the book, two narratives dance back and... Continue Reading →
The Innocents is the second of the Variety Palace Mysteries, a sequel to The Tumbling Girl. Minnie Ward is still holding the theater company together, particularly since Tansie, the owner/manager, is still reeling from the events in the first book.... Continue Reading →
The Book of Doors introduces us to Cassie Andrews, a kind, but reserved, clerk as a bookstore in New York City. Cassie shares an apartment with Izzy who is delightfully commonsensical and tough. A favorite customer dies at a desk in... Continue Reading →
The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures is told from the point of view of Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi agent who once wrote the manual on interrogation and mental manipulation but who, nearing retirement, is now doing humdrum work. He is, however,... Continue Reading →
A Criminal Defense is the first in a series of legal thrillers by William L. Myers, Jr. The story opens on a busy day in lawyer Mick McFarland's life. He is messaged a few times by a reporter, who is... Continue Reading →
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone opens with Ernest (Ern) Cunningham driving to a family reunion at a resort lodge in the mountains as a blizzard is on its way. The family is gathering to welcome home his brother... Continue Reading →
Generation Ship is a story about a colony ship that is approaching a planet they hope will support life so they can settle there. The ship has been traveling so long that they are several generations away from the founders... Continue Reading →
Beautiful Things is the memoir of President Biden's younger son, Hunter Biden. As someone who dreamed of being a writer or an artist before dutifully going to law school and pursuing a career in business and lobbying. I wasn't interested... Continue Reading →
Invisible Woman is a story of a marriage, a friendship, and #MeToo. Joni Ackerman was once a trailblazing director, but her career took second place to her marriage and raising her children. Paul, her husband, has a high-powered career in... Continue Reading →
Northwoods tells us the story of the opioid crisis at Shaky Lake, a resort lake in the Wisconsin Northwoods. It begins with a noise nuisance call that leads to the discovery of a murdered teenage boy, Ben Sharpe, whose mother... Continue Reading →
The Wren, The Wren is a slender book to cover three generations in Ireland, but that it does. The family we come to know begins with Phil McDaragh, a prize-winning Irish poet who wins fame and celebrity in his lifetime,... Continue Reading →
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