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…
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The Sword of Justice: Cheering For Tori Eldridge’s Unlikely Ninja Hero
In her debut novel, The Ninja Daughter, author Tori Eldridge turns a young woman with a passion for justice into a modern-day martial-arts hero. Lily Wong is an anachronism — a…
Sisters, Secrets, and Ties That Bind in LAST DAY by Luanne Rice
Two sisters, part of a pact of “blood-sister” best friends—the Compass Rose. One of them is murdered. In LAST DAY, prolific author Luanne Rice explores how secrets can lurk just…
Review of WITHIN PLAIN SIGHT and Interview With Bruce Robert Coffin
A staged body missing its head sends Detective Sergeant John Byron of the Portland, Maine, police department on a chase for the killer. In WITHIN PLAIN SIGHT, author Bruce Robert…
Luxury, Lessons, and Lies in GOOD GIRLS LIE by J.T. Ellison
Daughters of the rich and powerful attend The Goode School, an elite boarding school nestled within the hills of Marchburg, Virginia. The girls come from entitlement and wealth, except for…
Review of Deep State by Chris Hauty
An Even Deeper State On the surface, new White House intern Hayley Chill is “Walmart white trash desperately trying to claw her way out of Oxy-Appalachia.” An Army vet, her…
Clutter, Crime, and Calculating Coincidence in Hallie Ephron’s CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
“Emily felt as if her life, like a disordered closet, had been suddenly emptied out, assumptions upended. What to toss? What to keep? As if she had choices.” Emily Harlow…
A Damaged Druggie, a Dominatrix, and Diverse Manhattan in “The Tower of Songs”
Who doesn’t love an irreverent badass who admits he’s a screw-up? Duck Darley is the most damaged anti-hero you’d never want to meet in a dark corner of New York…