Tornado Weather by Deborah E. Kennedy is an affecting portrait of a complex and flawed cast of characters striving to find fulfillment in their lives—and Kennedy brilliantly shows that there is nothing average about an average life. Tornado Weather is a difficult book to classify. Sure, there is a crime or… Read more
Inspired by true events, Dark Chapter by Winnie M. Li is both a literary masterpiece and a riveting novel of suspense about of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives. It’s a good thing Dark Chapter is nominated for an Edgar Award… Read more
The Paris Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal is the seventh Maggie Hope Mystery, where American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II. The Paris Spy is the first Maggie Hope Mystery I’ve read, and when friends… Read more
Tangerine by Christine Mangan is a sharp dagger of a book—a debut so tightly wound, so replete with exotic imagery and charm, so full of precise details and extraordinary craftsmanship, it will leave you absolutely breathless (available March 27, 2018). The manuscript that eventually became Tangerine was plucked from a… Read more
When a murder echoing a 15-year-old cold case rocks the Southern town of Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of this calculated killer in Christi Daugherty's new novel The Echo Killing. I was immediately pulled into this novel and read it in just a few… Read more
Force of Nature by Jane Harper is the second book in the Aaron Falk series, where five women go on a hike and only four return, begging the question: how well do you really know the people you work with? Last year, I approached Jane Harper’s international bestseller, The Dry,… Read more
A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds, which probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next… Read more
World War with China explodes in Hunter Killer, David Poyer's powerful, all-too-believable novel about how the next world war might unfold. This novel is full of movement and the chaos of wartime. As a result, it’s difficult to write about, but at its most basic, it follows the storylines of… Read more
OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman's Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese Army by Ann Todd is the story of a remarkable woman, Elizabeth “Betty” McIntosh, who fought World War II on the front lines of psychological warfare. OSS Operation Black Mail is the story of Elizabeth “Betty” McIntosh and… Read more
Idyll Fears by Stephanie Gayle is the second book in the Thomas Lynch series, where the gay Chief of Police must deal with homophobic opposition as well as a frantic search for a missing six-year-old with a rare, life-threatening medical condition. Idyll Fears is the second entry in Stephanie Gayle’s… Read more
