I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell

August 13, 2024

Jessa Maxwell is the author of The Golden Spoon. Her second novel, I Need You to Read This, takes readers to the heyday of newspapers and advice columnists. It introduces a lonely young woman whose lifestyle leaves her a perfect victim for gaslighting. Alex Marks...

Thomas Kies, Guest Author

August 16, 2021

I met Tom Kies at a Poisoned Pen book conference just about the time his first book, Random Road, was released. Now, his fourth Geneva Chase Crime Reporter novel, Shadow Hill, is out. His short bio on The Poisoned Pen Bookstore’s website doesn’t do justice...

Hello, Summer by Mary Kay Andrews

May 06, 2020

I am a sucker for books about reporters; fiction, mysteries, memoirs. Mary Kay Andrews, who is a former journalist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, brings readers a fabulous novel, the story of one reporter, the dying newspaper business, a small town...

The Devil’s Triangle by Howard Owen

June 25, 2017

I’m a sucker for a good mystery featuring a journalist as sleuth. So why hadn’t I heard of Howard Owen? The Devil’s Triangle is the sixth Willie Black mystery set in Richmond, Virginia. I feel as if I’ve been missing a good series. In...

White Collar Girl by Renee Rosen

November 02, 2015

There’s something about the journalism field that has always fascinated me. Combine journalism with  the 1950s, Chicago politics, and an ambitious young woman, though, and you have Renee Rosen’s powerful novel, White Collar Girl. Jordan Walsh...