The Poet’s House by Jean Thompson
Jean Thompson has lived near the University of Illinois campus since she landed her first teaching job there in 1973. In 1979, her debut short-story collection, Gasoline Wars won critical acclaim...
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Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
The qualities of a great mystery thriller include a sense of place, a human hero, and a page-turning pace. Readers will find all three in Better the Blood, a spectacular, tension-filled...
Beloved by Toni Morrison
“Something that is loved is never lost.” ― Toni Morrison, Beloved In observation of Banned Books Week 2023, I decided to treat myself and reread Beloved by my favorite author, Toni...
The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards
I love mysteries and crime fiction. I love reading them and reading about them. In this book, “Martin Edwards has drawn on his experience as an award-winning novelist to capture the...
The Grammarians by Cathleen Shine
Twin, n. A couple; a pair; twoTwin, v.t. & i. To part, sever, sunder; deprive (of) —Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition[Kindle: Location 17 of 3389] As...
Lost Son by Brett Forrest
Lost Son is a nonfiction investigative mystery/thriller in which national security reporter Brett Forrest describes his efforts to find out what happened to a young man named Billy Reilly who was...
Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf
This novel, published in 2019 by Park Row, shines as both a psychological thriller and mystery! The mystery ‘event’ is based on a true crime case (Slender Man) and includes three...
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
This year (2023) marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and there is no better way to learn about this event than to read A Stranger in Your...
The Tiffany Girls by Shelley Noble
There sure are a plethora of books published on this topic including “The ‘Lost’ Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany,” “Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel,” “Noon at Tiffany’s: An Historical, Biographical...
Dead Water by C. A. Fletcher
Horror is so not my genre; at least I thought not until I read C.A. Fletcher’s Dead Water publishedby Redhook in 2022. I loved this book and here are a few...
