HER PERFECT LIFE: A Novel by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Even a Perfect Life Has Secrets On Twitter, she’s dubbed #PerfectLily. That’s because Boston’s Channel 6 News investigative reporter Lily Atwood must be perfect when she’s on the air. Or…

I Couldn’t Love You More by Esther Freud

A Magdalene Laundry looms over three generations of mothers navigating life and loss. In her new novel, I Couldn’t Love You More, prizewinning author Esther Freud — great-granddaughter of Sigmund and…

Chronicling Historical Butchery

How Audrey Clare Farley turned a story about eugenics into a book. Living in an alternate reality between 2016 and 2021 caused me to fear that American social justice, and…

A Fatal Lie by Charles Todd

Murder and A Missing Girl in Post-World War I England The bestselling mother-son writing duo known as Charles Todd takes readers back to 1921 England in A FATAL LIE, book…

Review of THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP by Susan Wiggs

A Celebration of Books, Bookstores, and the Meaning of Happiness Deep into Susan Wiggs’ The Lost and Found Bookshop, a character declares: “A bookseller is the link between the stories…

Review of Viral Apocalypse Novel SURVIVOR SONG by Paul Tremblay

An Ode to the Act of “Going On” A super-strain of rabies has attacked Massachusetts. It is a viral apocalypse, in which the bite of infected animals and humans incubates…

Review of Novel – THE PRESIDENT’S DOSSIER by James A. Scott

Putin, Power and U.S. Plutocracy in “The President’s Dossier” The green of cash replaces American red, white and blue in The President’s Dossier (Oceanview Publishing). Author James A. Scott takes readers into a clandestine…

Review of DARK AUGUST by Katie Tallo

Loneliness, Lies, and a Dog Named Levi In her debut novel DARK AUGUST, author and screenwriter Katie Tallo delves into the life of August “Gus” Monet, a young woman who’d…