A crusading lawyer, a former cop, and an FBI agent looking to make his mark all come together like gasoline and a match in David Ellis’ new novel, The Best Lies. Leo is a lawyer working to bring a sex trafficker to justice, but his case falls apart when his client, who’d been enslaved as a prostitute and had a child sold off, is murdered. Days later the trafficker is found ... Read More...
A Wild and Heavenly Place
A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira begins in 1870s Glasgow where orphaned, teenage Samuel, is living hand-to-mouth working in a shipyard and taking care of his little sister. He’s in love with Hailey, a wealthy girl he admires from afar. Until circumstances throw them together and they begin to fall in love, only to be pulled apart and separated by half a ... Read More...
Summer Reading Mini-Review
I've had such good reading recently that I feel bit a bit bad ending this week on a negative note. At the same time, I'm not one to mince my words so while I love light-hearted, fun reading, especially in the summer, these two books fell far short of success for me. Patrick, the witty, gay uncle in Steven Rowley’s novel The Guncle has returned for an encore ... Read More...
Capote’s Women by Laurence Leamer
After all the agita of getting taxes filed on time, I needed a reward. Overindulging in champagne was my first choice, but not a healthy option so I turned to reading that gave me the same light, fizzy feeling and required no thought to enjoy. The book is Laurence Leamer’s Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era—a frothy biography of Truman ... Read More...
Those We Thought We Knew
The residents of Jackson, a quiet county in the North Carolina mountains, are happy believing racism is largely in their past. Until that is, reality intervenes in David Joy’s new novel, Those We Thought We Knew. Joy uses the perspectives of three local characters: two white law enforcement officers and one Black woman to strip the veneer from a place and people who thought ... Read More...
Nora Goes Off Script
When Nora’s husband leaves their family to pursue his dreams, she does what she always does—she writes about it. Nora earns her living writing romance movies for cable TV, but in Nora Goes Off Script she changes things up and writes reality. The result is a screenplay that gets picked up by a major studio, complete with movie stars in the lead roles. All of whom descend on ... Read More...
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