Reviews + Articles
Kitchen Yarns by Ann Hood
Ah, Ann Hood. I know she's written other books, and I've read other ones, but I identified with her memoir/essay collection Morningstar: Growing Up with Books. Now, she has given us a memoir about another essential part of her life. Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life,...
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
I want to be like Helene Tursten's character Maud when I'm eighty-eight years old. So, that's a warning if any of you remember that in twenty-seven years. Tursten's Detective Inspector Irene Huss makes two brief appearances in the story collection, An Elderly...
Bleak Harbor by Bryan Gruley
It's been a few years since Bryan Gruley had his award-winning Starvation Lake series. He returns to Michigan, to a new town, in Bleak Harbor, a domestic thriller. When Danny Peters disappears, Carey Peters fears her sixteen-year-old son has run away for a...
January 2019 Treasures in My Closet
Do you believe we're already talking about books to be released in January 2019? Time goes so fast. I hope there's something in this list that intrigues you. If not, are you waiting for a different January release? Peter Caine is a cutthroat Manhattan defense...
Murder in the Dark by Simon R. Green
If you haven't yet discovered Simon R. Green's Ishmael Jones mysteries, Murder in the Dark is a good place to start. It's not quite as graphically violent as some of the earlier ones in the series. In fact, this one is reminiscent of Agatha Christie's And Then...
What Are You Reading?
It's Thursday! The end of the work week is in sight! I hope you're all reading good books (or in Glen's case, I hope he's reading books that he'll summarize with snarky one-liners that make us laugh.) I'm reading Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery. It's a...