Ray Lovell wakes up in a hospital bed, half-paralyzed, barely able to speak, and delusional to boot. Fragmentary memories haunt him. Tests show he’s been poisoned, but by whom and when? As his memory begins to return, he knows he was hired by a Romany (formerly called Gypsy) man to find his daughter, Rose Janko,…
Category Archives: Fiction
One Moment, One Morning (with Giveaway)
In One Moment, One Morning, Sarah Rayner explores the role of friendship in three women’s lives. In one moment on one morning, their lives intersect when 40-something Karen’s husband Simon has a heart attack on the commuter train to London. Lou, a 30-something, is on the same car and witnesses it. When everyone has to…
The Art of Fielding
The Art of Fielding is ostensibly a book about baseball, and baseball does encompass a good portion of the story, but Chad Harbach’s debut novel is much, much more than just another book about baseball. Henry Skrimshander is small and a bit scrawny, but he’s an outstanding short stop who makes fielding and tossing the…
Dark of the Moon
Dark of the Moon manages to be historic fiction as well as a retelling of a well-known myth, and as such, it’s extremely well-done. Ariadne, the Goddess-Who-Will-Be, is in many ways a normal 15 year old girl, insecure in some ways, chafing against the life she’s always known while at the same time embracing impending…
The World We Found, Review and Giveaway
After “discovering” Thrity Umrigar when I read her last book The Weight of Heaven, I was excited to read what she had to offer next with The World We Found. These books are completely different, so if you didn’t like the shocking, hopeless tone of The Weight of Heaven (which completely riveted me from the…
The Queen
The Queen is the fifth in a gripping series of thrillers by author and storyteller Steven James. The Bowers Files, as the series is known, features Patrick Bowers, an FBI agent specializing in geographic profiling. Several of the other books in this series have been reviewed here, including The Bishop and The Knight. In The…
Secret Life of Bees, Special Edition, with Giveaway
I don’t want to beat a dead horse, but I love giving books as gifts. There are a few ways to take giving a book up a notch: Select the perfect book. Fans of the total blockbuster The Help will love The Secret Life of Bees. That book convinced people who are generally non-readers to…
1225 Christmas Tree Lane
1225 Christmas Tree Lane is the twelfth and final book in Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove series. Fans of the series will enjoy the chance to say goodbye to many of the characters they have come to know and love, while readers who aren’t familiar with Cedar Cove will appreciate the festive holiday read. The owner…
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