Review of The Fallen Architect: An Old-Fashioned Murder Mystery With Fresh Tricks

It’s a good old-fashioned murder mystery, with a literal twist: back-bending acrobats! In The Fallen Architect, Charles Belfoure(House of Thieves and The Paris Architect, Sourcebooks Landmark) throws readers into a murder mystery enveloped in the…

Book Review: Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

In this textured tale about Punjabi Indian women and sexual taboos, Balli Kaur Jaswal masterfully juxtaposes modern and traditional, West and East, and each generation’s definition of oppression, with a murder…

Henry’s Majestic Bar & Restaurant in Dallas. Fun Place! My review in Texas Lifestyle Magazine.

If you live near Dallas and are looking for a bar and restaurant with upscale cuisine, a wide selection of jazzy cocktails, cool tunes, and a central location, Henry’s Majestic…

Review of In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills by Jennifer Haupt

In this gracefully written literary novel, Jennifer Haupt explores the lives of three women which intersect at an orphanage in Rwanda. This tale, centered around the Rwandan genocide, screams to…

Review of The Midnight Man by David Eric Tomlinson

In his debut novel, David Eric Tomlinson weaves basketball, law enforcement, self-realization, and the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building into a tapestry of Oklahoma culture and attitudes. The unexpected…

Spring Break Fun in Dallas?

  Need something fun to do in Dallas during spring break?  Why not check out The Perot Museum of Nature and Science? For more info, you can read my review…

Review of Sunburn by Laura Lippman

  In this novel that expertly blends tough, cynical, and slightly sleazy, Laura Lippman has revised the rules for classic crime noir. You can read my review featured in The…

The Successful Failure – My Oxymoronic Publishing Journey – Part 14

  Since I’d decided to write about reincarnation, what prior life would my heroine experience?  The practice of child labor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries really intrigues me,…