Author Archive
- September 21, 2016
September 20, 2016In 1920s rural Alabama, most men had two choices when it came to making a living: farming or the coal mines. Roscoe T Martin detested both. His world changes when he sees electric...- September 15, 2016
September 14, 2016Eileen Dunlop – the title character in “Eileen” by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press, 2015) – is hard to like. The book isn’t. Moshfegh’s...- August 26, 2016
August 25, 2016Friendly maggots. Deadly diarrhea. Full penile implants. This is not your typical war book. If you are interested in military strategy, the latest armaments or noteworthy battles,...- July 28, 2016
July 27, 2016In “Before the Fall” (Grand Central Publishing, 2016), author Noah Hawley delivers a taut and expertly paced suspense novel. Hawley’s fifth book delivers in so many...- July 13, 2016
July 12, 2016A sense of place and strong central and auxiliary characters are vital to good crime novels, perhaps more so than an inventive puzzle, a surprising twist or a startling...
