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small town & rural fiction

Book Review: The Local by Joey Hartstone

By John Valeri

July 28, 2022

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…

Book Review: After We Were Stolen by Brooke Beyfuss

By Doreen Sheridan

July 27, 2022

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…

Book Review: The Local by Joey Hartstone

By Janet Webb

July 25, 2022

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…

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