Political Thriller Dead Watch

Dead Watch, by John Sandford:   When former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Bowe goes missing, ex-Army Intelligence officer-turned-consultant Jake Winter sets out to find him at the […]

Legal Thriller The Brass Verdict

The Brass Verdict, by Michael Connelly: When the defense attorney for a movie mogul accused of murder is himself murdered in legal thriller THE BRASS […]

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 […]

Literary Novel Clock Dance

Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler:   Daughter of a steadfast, loving father and mercurial mother, eleven-year-old Willa Drake wants to be a steadying influence on a […]

Mainstream Love Story The Longest Ride

The Longest Ride, by Nicholas Sparks:   Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson sits slumped in his car in a snowdrift, unable to move. His wife, dead nine years […]

Pitch the Story

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

Comic Mystery Bad Monkey

Bad Monkey, by Carl Hiaasen:   In comic mystery BAD MONKEY, a severed arm reeled in from the waters off Key West offers former Deputy Sheriff […]

Romantic Thriller Mean Streak

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

Literary Novel The Other

The Other, by David Guterson:   A middle-class English teacher with a wife and two children, my life would have been poetically mundane if not for […]

Psychological Thriller The Best of Me

The Best of Me, by Nicholas Sparks:   When death of a mutual friend reunites Dawson Cole and his former sweetheart Amanda in psychological thriller THE BEST […]