Category: Review

The Power Trip

“Looks, money, power, fame.” New York Times bestselling author Jackie Collins has used these keys to everlasting stardom in Hollywood to catapult herself to a successful, international literary career. She is the reigning queen...

The Comfort of Lies

Randy Susan Meyers’s first novel, THE MURDERER’S DAUGHTERS, was a book club favorite, thanks to its complex exploration of two sisters growing up in the wake of tragedy. She puts this same empathetic, multifaceted...

The Seventh Victim

Bestselling author Mary Burton (BEFORE SHE DIES and MERCILESS) ratchets up the tension in Texas as a cold case thaws. Seven years ago, Lara Church was the Seattle Strangler’s seventh victim, but she survived....

The River Swimmer: Novellas

In contemporary fiction there is no writer who is more associated with the novella than Jim Harrison. Since 1979 he has produced five volumes of them, LEGENDS OF THE FALL being the most well-known....

Guilt: An Alex Delaware Novel

It is time once again to give a warm welcome to a new Alex Delaware mystery by Jonathan Kellerman. This blessing is contained within the covers of GUILT, which is certainly one of his...

House of Earth

The manuscript of Woody Guthrie’s only finished novel, lost to the public for 65 years, has been brought to light in celebration of his 100th year. Guthrie began writing HOUSE OF EARTH during the Dust...

See Now Then

SEE NOW THEN is one of the most beautiful nasty novels I have ever read. In her first work of fiction since 2002’s MR. POTTER, Jamaica Kincaid uses her considerable poetic gifts to chronicle...

Tenth of December: Stories

The problem with some works of dystopian fiction is that, in their eagerness to create an alternative universe that offers a cautionary tale to the modern world, authors often let cleverness nudge heart to...