If I Could Tell You by Elizabeth Wilhide
★★★☆☆ If I Could Tell You by Elizabeth Wilhide seemed to be the perfect book: a romantic story that’s set in England during World War I, that stars a brave, young woman, and is written...
Author: Nancy Basile
Better Living Through Criticism by A.O. Scott
★★★★☆ Everyone’s a critic, and for good reason. That’s A.O. Scott’s declaration in Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth, in which Scott dissects the nature of criticism, digging...
The Fortress by Danielle Trussoni
★★★☆☆ Reading a memoir adds another story layer to what’s happening between the book covers. While you’re engrossed in the story the author is telling, you’re also marveling that the author is so open and frank...
Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah
★★★☆☆ Bestselling author Sophie Hannah attempts to capture Agatha Christie’s masterful storytelling in Closed Casket, but Christie was an author who cannot be replicated. Closed Casket takes place at Lady Athelinda Playford’s estate in Clonakilty, County...
Best Books of 2016 – Nancy’s Picks
When Skyhorse Publishing asked me to read Just One Damned Thing After Another and write about it for their blog, I kind of dreaded it. It’s not often that I get sent a genre...
The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Mary Higgins Clark
★★★★☆ Mary Higgins Clark has been writing thrilling mysteries for decades. The Sleeping Beauty Killer, the fourth book about TV producer Laurie Moran, is her third collaboration with Alafair Burke. The Sleeping Beauty Killer finds...
A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George
★★★★☆ In A Banquet of Consequences, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, of Scotland Yard, is at somewhat of a loss. Her best friend and his daughter have moved away from London to Pakistan. At work,...
