Reviews + Articles

A Good Month for Murder by Del Quentin Wilber

Sometimes narrative nonfiction can be as compelling as a good novel. Del Quentin Wilber’s book, A Good Month for Murder, is an excellent example. The award-winning reporter spent months with the Prince George’s County, Maryland, Homicide Squad, and then...

Give Me a B Giveaway

Congratulations to the winners of the copies of Laura Bradford’s Eclair and Present Danger. The books will go to Dianne C. from Elk Grove Village, IL and Sally S. of Antioch, CA. This week, it’s a give me a B giveaway, featuring authors whose last names...

Television’s Female Spies and Crimefighters by Karen A. Romanko

I love a good reference book that deals with the field of crime fiction. Former librarian (Her bio says that. I think once a librarian, always a librarian.) Karen A. Romanko’s book covers 600 Characters and shows from the 1950s through August...

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

It seems as if I’ve been talking about and anticipating Vinegar Girl for months now. The Hogarth Shakespeare project has today’s bestselling novelists writing modern retellings of Shakespeare’s works. Anne Tyler took on one of my favorite...

This Is Where You Belong by Melody Warnick

I don’t know when a nonfiction book has hit so close to home for me. Perhaps it’s because I’m a “Mover”, one of those people who pack up and move for one reason or another. For me, it has been jobs – in Upper Arlington, Ohio;...

Mystic Summer by Hannah McKinnon

Are you familiar with the term “new adults”? It refers to twenty-somethings, on their own, making major life decisions. Hannah McKinnon’s Mystic Summer is definitely for that audience. Maggie Griffin is perfectly happy with her life in...