Blogs Posts in Mystery category; 24 blog posts

Book Review: The Hunting Season by Dean Vincent Carter

Gerontius Moore lost his parents in a bizarre car accident in Austria. Two mangled bodies were found clawed by some ferocious animals, while not far away lay Gerontius in a state of shock. It has taken him eight years to recover - but now [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2008 | Comments : 0

Peeping Tom's Cabin:

It’s hard to find fault with X.J. Kennedy. Winner of multiple prestigious awards, including the Guggenheim, the always-metrical Kennedy is widely credited for helping revitalize appreciation of form. His well-loved children’s an [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2008 | Comments : 0

Featured Book Review: Betty Smith: Life of the Author of A T...

“And without true modesty, I am a world famous writer. A hundred years after I’m dead, people will still be reading, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”’ –Betty Smith in a letter to her granddaughter Although a [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2008 | Comments : 0

Book review: 'The Giant's House'

According to Peggy Cort, the lonely and socially inept small-town librarian protagonist of “The Giant’s House,” librarians are not all bitter spinsters. Really, it all depends on what your definition of a spinster is thoug [...]

Posted On : Dec, 18 2007 | Comments : 0

The Fixer-Upper

A curious passage occurs in “My Father Is a Book,” Janna Malamud Smith’s tender, touching 2006 memoir of her father, Bernard Malamud. In the spring of 1978, when the novelist was in his mid-60s, he and his wife, Ann, had d [...]

Posted On : Dec, 11 2007 | Comments : 0

Title: Lady of the Roses

The rift between the Houses of Lancaster and York has led to civil war throughout England. With that backdrop, Lady in Waiting to Queen Marguerite Isobel Ingoldesthorpe and Lord John Neville fall in love. However, her liege is L [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2007 | Comments : 0

Title: Bubbles All the Way

Bubbles All the Way Sarah Strohmeyer Onyx, Nov 2006, $7.99 ISBN: 0451412273Bubbles Yablonsky is not having an easy time of it because she told her one time lover photojournalist Steve Stiletto that she will not marry him. Instead she [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

Title: Payback

After being a media sensation (for two books - SUSPECT and MISSING), the late wealthy bigamist Ron Raven is no longer headlines news and his two families are finally moving on past his transgressions. Everything changes when Chef Luke [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2007 | Comments : 0

Title: Chris Jordan

In Valley Stream, Long Island single mom Jane �The Wedding Lady� Garner and her sixteen year old daughter Kelly share a strong bond forged from when the younger almost died from leukemia. When Jane wakes up one morning, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2007 | Comments : 0

Title: Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of th...

For a five-year period, from the rise of talkies in 1929 through mid-1934, Hollywood produced a slew of refreshingly frank films that showed what was really going on in America. Men and women were equal partners, women could have succ [...]