Review of PERFECT LITTLE CHILDREN by Sophie Hannah

When you haven’t seen friends for a long time, it’s easy to remember their children as the same age you knew them years before. But when Beth Leeson sees her…

An Interview With Sophie Hannah – Killing, Comedy, and Country Music

Sophie Hannah’s not a stand-up comedienne… yet. But she gets to play the part in her newest thriller, THE NEXT TO DIE. In it, comedienne Kim Tribbeck finds herself center-stage…

Murder, Mysticism and Kinky Sex in Lineberger’s Sunday Best

Sunday Best by Ann Lineberger is a murder mystery intertwined with cultish clairvoyance and kinky sex clubs. Wealthy publishing and realty magnate Walter Bloom is found hanging naked in a barn, with only half a…

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…

Review of Everything We Keep – A Novel by Kerry Lonsdale

Aimee Tierney has a perfect life.  About to marry the man of her dreams, her best friend since grade school. A chef close to opening her own restaurant. Until the…

Review of The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson

This book is a genre kaleidoscope – a mystery, hiding inside a courtroom drama, hiding inside a domestic thriller, hiding inside a literary novel. The composite of these elements is…