Joey Hartstone may be a debut novelist, but he’s certainly no novice when it comes to writing. He studied screenwriting at UCLA and later had two of his scripts directed for film by Rob Reiner: LBJ (2016) and Shock and Awe (2017). Hartstone also wrote on the first two seasons of The Good Fight and…
It’s hard to believe After We Were Stolen is Brooke Beyfuss’ debut novel. It’s so assured and lived in I had to keep reminding myself it was fiction, and not the actual memoirs of a young girl escaping a cult. Not that our heroine Avery knows that’s what she’s living in. As far as she’s…
The Local is a debut thriller that crackles with memorable characters. The novel is set in Marshall, Texas, the site of the Federal courthouse of the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) known as the “rocket docket“—noted for its speedy disposition of cases and controversies that come before it. Big time patent lawyers from national firms…
