Reviews + Articles
Agatha Award Winners 2025
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Agatha Awards, presented this past weekend at Malice Domestic. Best Contemporary Novel: Gigi Pandian for A Midnight Puzzle Best First Novel: K.T. Nguyen for You Know What You Did Best Non-Fiction: Phyllis M....
Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Amber Waves of Autumn
I always appreciate Kevin Tipple's reviews of story collections. Today, he introduces us to The Amber Waves of Autumn: Noir Stories. Thank you, Kevin. Received from the publisher, Kelp Books, LLC, through NetGalley longafter the December 2024 publication date, The...
The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang
I switched from those short Japanese collections to a novel set in South Korea. The Rainfall Market is by You Yeong-Gwang, translated by Slin Jung. The Acknowledgements are interesting in that the author crowdsourced the publication of his book, and wrote it during...
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
I can't recommend Virginia Evans' novel, The Correspondent, highly enough. If you like epistolary novels with a depth of character, meet Sybil Van Antwerp. Sybil is retired from practicing law. She's divorced, a mother and grandmother who lives in Annapolis,...
What Are You Reading?
It's been a good week. Easter dinner at my sister and brother-in-law's. Weather in the 70s a couple days. Last night, Linda and I went to see "A Beautiful Noise", the musical about Neil Diamond. Because I'm writing this before the show, I don't have anything else...
My Mistake
I waited all day for Kate DiCamillo's second book in her series, Orris and Timble: Lost and Found. It was only at the end of the day that I checked, and saw release day is next Tuesday, not yesterday. Darn. So, instead of a fresh review, you have my reviiew of...