Midwest Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/midwest/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 09 Jul 2024 21:28:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Midwest Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/midwest/ 32 32 38398750 All the Colors of the Dark https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/all-the-colors-of-the-dark/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/all-the-colors-of-the-dark/#comments Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:13:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18546 When 13-year-old Patch sees a girl being abducted he acts without thinking and rushes the kidnapper. The girl escapes, but what follows changes Patch’s life and is the foundation for Chris Whitaker’s new novel All the Colors of the Dark. Patch and everyone he knows is changed by his heroic act in this opus saturated […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/all-the-colors-of-the-dark/feed/ 21 18546 The River We Remember https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/the-river-we-remember/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/the-river-we-remember/#comments Tue, 05 Sep 2023 07:59:06 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17839 Summer is just beginning in the small town of Jewel, Minnesota when the body of Jimmy Quinn, one of the town’s wealthiest citizens, is discovered in the nearby river. Given that he was also one of the most disliked there are plenty of people in William Kent Krueger’s The River We Remember who wanted him […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/the-river-we-remember/feed/ 6 17839 Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/saturday-night-at-the-lakeside-supper-club/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/saturday-night-at-the-lakeside-supper-club/#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2023 07:13:25 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17447 J. Ryan Stradal’s new novel, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, employs his familiar template of families, food and drink, but once again he uses it to create a fresh canvas for two families in northern Minnesota. Each runs a restaurant, but the similarities stop there. Betty and Floyd run the Lakeside, a traditional […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/saturday-night-at-the-lakeside-supper-club/feed/ 3 17447 Marrying the Ketchups https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/marrying-the-ketchups/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/marrying-the-ketchups/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2022 04:16:06 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16754 After my frank opinions in the May recap let’s start June off with some breezy family drama, shall we? Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close is the story of the Sullivans, a restaurant-owning family in Chicago’s Oak Park neighborhood. The novel is cemented in place at the volatile end of 2016, when the Cubs win their […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/marrying-the-ketchups/feed/ 8 16754 The Talented Miss Farwell https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/10/the-talented-miss-farwell/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/10/the-talented-miss-farwell/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2020 04:07:18 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14961 Sometimes, despite being gifted, life doesn’t work out the way you want. For Rebecca Farwell her father’s ineptitude in business and later, a stroke, mean that despite her talent with numbers college is not an option. Instead, she keeps their farm equipment company in Pierson, Illinois solvent and even pays off the farm when her […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/10/the-talented-miss-farwell/feed/ 2 14961 The Reckless Oath We Made https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/the-reckless-oath-we-made/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/the-reckless-oath-we-made/#comments Wed, 11 Sep 2019 07:16:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13124 Zee’s life has never been easy (to begin with, her full name is Zhorzha), but now it’s coming completely unraveled. She left her last worthless boyfriend after she crashed his motorcycle and broke her hip, she traffics marijuana because she lost her job after the accident, and she’s living with her sister LaReigne and her […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/the-reckless-oath-we-made/feed/ 8 13124 The Wolf Wants In https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/08/the-wolf-wants-in/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/08/the-wolf-wants-in/#respond Mon, 05 Aug 2019 07:03:09 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13072 Blackwater is a town hovering near Kansas City; a place of farmers and granaries.  It’s also one of those small towns with big problems. The opioid crisis is taking its toll, a little girl has been murdered, her father is missing, and another young man has seemingly died of a heart attack at age 36. […]

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