If you like your mysteries as violent as I do then Gun Machine by Warren Ellis will be a pleasure for you to read. Although he doesn’t realize it, veteran NYPD detective John Tallow has just been going through the motions with his job for a while now. After his partner is killed in an [...]
Sometimes you need a break from serious reading…I do, when I am exceptionally busy, ill, or when the sun is out! I grabbed The Family Way by Rhys Bowen from TCPL’s new mystery book area. It’s a Molly Murphy mystery– Molly being a ‘retired to marriage’ private detective living in New York City in the [...]
When the popular Irish novelist, Maeve Binchy died in 2012, like many readers, I experience a twinge of regret having enjoyed many of her 16 novels over the years. From a full page notice in the New York Times Book Review, I was enticed to read her latest novel, the posthumously published A Week in [...]
Frances and Bernard is a small jewel of a novel. It’s a fictionalized account of the friendship and love affair between novelist Flannery O’Connor (Frances) and poet Robert Lowell (Bernard) composed as a series of letters between the two with letters to other friends occasionally interspersed. Author Carlene Bauer fully captures the life of the [...]
The third novel by Gillian Flynn entitled Gone Girl is a real killer! The suspense that Gillian builds through out the novel is amazing. On the eave of Nick and Amy’s fifth wedding anniversary Amy goes missing. What happens next will keep you reading as this novel is full ride thriller that is guaranteed to [...]
I have lost count of how many times I’ve recommended author C.J. Box to other readers-his Joe Pickett series is top notch. Box’s newest effort, Breaking Point, does not disappoint and has game warden Joe trying to figure out why an acquaintance of his named Butch has went off the deep end (or more accurately, [...]
Devil’s Wake by Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due has Hollywood written all over it-don’t be surprised if it is the next hit movie or TV series. It’s about zombies and I am happy to report that there is not an ounce of humor in it (there was a period of time when anything released about [...]
I love to read books about war, both fiction and nonfiction. And who can get enough of the Civil War? It is literally unimaginable how many men (and animals) were slaughtered, homes and crops destroyed. How did America recover from it? Over 600,000 dead! A while back, I read a starred review of Ralph Peters’ [...]
Helen Dunmore’s The Betrayal tells the story of Andrei and Anna, a married couple trying to live in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Their town, Leningrad, has just survived a siege where millions of the city’s inhabitants died trying to hold out against Hitler’s German forces during World War II. Leningrad did not fall to the Germans [...]
I am attracted to the settings in novels, and very much so when a book is set in a familiar place. In this case, Vicki Delany’s More than Sorrow, is set in Prince Edward County, an island county in the province of Ontario Canada. Now a very popular area for country homes for Toronto’s rich [...]