When you are eight-years-old the lines between what is real and what is imagined can still get blurred. So, it might be difficult for Miles to explain to police that he saw a man wearing a chicken mask kill his mother. Except that his statement isn’t even needed—the mask is found in the family’s garage and his father is booked on a murder charge. He commits suicide in ... Read More...
Right Up Until the End: Mini-Reviews
Picture this: you’ve started a mystery/thriller/sci-fi/suspense novel—any book that sucks you into a plot that requires full buy-in on the reader's part. And you do. And it’s well written, it’s all working and then BAM!, it’s not. You’re left like Nathan Lane in The Birdcage, a gay man trying to play a straight man discussing the Miami Dolphins. The betrayal, the bewilderment. ... Read More...
The Winter People
Little girls are all sugar and spice and everything nice. So what does it mean when they see things other people can’t? And talk to their dolls with a secret language? In Jennifer McMahon’s new novel, The Winter People, it means a whole lot of creepy is coming on. The novel opens with nine-year-old Sara seeing a friend running through the forest near her home in West Hall, ... Read More...
