The groundhog and awards season are upon us! The Agatha Awards honor the “traditional mystery.” That is to say, books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie as well as others, loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous violence. The 2014 Agatha Awards will be given for materials…
Seconds Away by Harlan Coben is the second book in the Mickey Bolitar young adult thriller series (available September 18, 2012). It’s not easy to get a teen to read—especially when that teenager happens to be a guy. There aren’t a lot of books that are guy-friendly, in the era of Twilight and vampire stories.…
As a voracious pre-teen reader, I cut my teeth on Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Dana Sisters and Encyclopedia Brown mystery series. I loved the idea of someone who was close to being my age solving a mystery that had the adults in the story stumped. I loved them so much that I actually…
There’s not much that can tempt me to read a young adult novel. (If you don’t believe me, just check out the post I wrote on the topic over at our sister site, Heroes and Heartbreakers.) But I’ll read anything Harlan Coben writes, so I put aside my qualms and snatched Shelter up as soon…
