Literary Novel The Bingo Palace

The Bingo Palace, by Louise Erdrich It’s all about luck. The luck of striving, of familial bonds, of natural and supernatural intervention. Thus literary novel THE […]

Psychological Thriller Safe Haven

Safe Haven, by Nicholas Sparks     In psychological thriller SAFE HAVEN, haunted young Katie finds exactly that in a small seaside town that offers everything […]

Memoir Orange Is the New Black

Orange Is the New Black, by Piper Kerman     Recent Smith grad Piper Kerman takes a risk for adventure and smuggles drug money into Belgium […]

Police Thriller The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper, by Ridley Pearson     Seattle police detective Lou Boldt once again takes the lead in police thriller THE PIED PIPER, the moniker […]

Detective Novel P Is for Peril

P Is for Peril, by Sue Grafton     My instincts told me to decline the missing ex-husband case, but in typical Kinsey Millhone fashion, I […]

Women’s Fiction Night Road

Night Road, by Kristin Hannah     SPOILER ALERT!     Women’s fiction NIGHT ROAD probes the hearts of motherless teen Lexi Baill, an interloper in the […]

Thriller Night Fall

Night Fall, by Nelson DeMille I, John Corey, cannot resist a challenge. So when my FBI-agent wife waves under my nose a five-year-old closed case […]

Pitch the Story

People love to hear a good story or a good joke. Whenever someone says to my friend, “I’m going to tell you a joke,” he […]

Romantic Thriller Mean Streak

Mean Streak, by Sandra Brown     Alone on a winter practice run in the North Carolina mountains, pediatrician marathoner Emory Charbonneau runs smack into fate […]