Odd Partners, edited by Anne Perry
★★★★☆ Never has murder and the telling of it been so delightful! In this new collection of short fiction, editor Anne Perry has brought together twenty established and rising stars of the literary murder...
Author: John Formy-Duval
The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths
★★★★☆ It is February 2016, a leap year, and Valentine’s Day nears. An ominous letter comes to DCI Harry Nelson; it seems to be from a long-dead murderer involved in a twenty-year old case...
Sir Christopher Wren by Paul Rabbitts
★★★★☆ Those who know Christopher Wren usually think of him solely as a remarkable architect whose glorious designs still shine some 350 years later. But, as this very brief biography reveals, Wren was so...
Is, Is Not by Tess Gallagher
★★★☆☆ Its title suggests the endless arguments of two children, that something “is!” or “is not!” While we are not encumbered by mere recitation of unresolvable argument in Tess Gallagher’s collection, the reader experiences...
Henry, Himself by Stewart O’Nan
★★★★☆ Returning to the fictional Maxwell family of Pittsburg, Stewart O’Nan’s Henry, Himself provides the backstory for two of the author’s previous, highly appreciated novels. The first, Wish You Were Here (2002), introduced the...
Crown Jewel by Christopher Reich
★★☆☆☆ The publishing industry is replete with high-quality novels featuring James Bond-like characters set in exotic locales. Tough, smart men—and the occasional woman protagonist—run into danger and win the day utilizing their smarts and...
The Wild Bunch by W.K. Stratton
★★★★☆ Fifty years ago, Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch blasted onto the nation’s movie screens with the impact of a Gatling gun mowing down an advancing army. The cowboy movie (and really, all movie-making)...
We Begin in Gladness by Craig Morgan Teicher
★★★★☆ Can any book, especially one as succinct (befitting a poet) as this one, explain the myriad factors that spark the production of a poem? Regardless of the precipitating factors, the key element, according...
Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
★★★★☆ Step aside for a moment, Easy Rawlings: there is a new gumshoe in town, and he is out to do the right thing even if it might involve doing the wrong thing. Joe...
