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The Body in Question

June 10, 2019

Hannah

Standard courtroom drama fiction has never been a favorite of mine, but I recently read two novels that put such an interesting spin on them I’m changing my mind a bit. I’m calling them ‘courtroom ... Read More...

8 Comments
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, crime, literary, Pantheon, thriller

Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich

April 29, 2019

bull mountain

The first words that come to mind when I think about Brian Panowich’s debut novel Bull Mountain, are: blown away. Every day for a week after finishing it whenever I thought of it, I shook my head. ... Read More...

10 Comments
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: crime, family saga, Putnam, Southern life, thriller

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

December 12, 2018

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4 Comments
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, crime, Doubleday, history, Native Americans

American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent

May 4, 2018

american

  Like some of the other non-fiction books I read last month (Educated, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark), American Radical by Tamer Elnoury reads like fiction. High-wire tension, thriller kind of ... Read More...

3 Comments
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, crime, Dutton, religion

We Need to Talk About Kevin

December 10, 2014

we need to talk

  The point is, I don’t know what exactly I’d foreseen would happen when Kevin was first hoisted to my breast. I hadn’t foreseen anything exactly. I wanted what I could not imagine. I wanted to be ... Read More...

12 Comments
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, crime, family, Harper, horror, literary

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