By Don Reid Can you picture Don Reid of the Statler Brothers “sitting in a dark room alone, in front of a computer screen for hours and days at a time, creating people and making up stories”? That’s how he describes writing his latest novel, Among the Ashes. In the Acknowledgments section of the book, […]
By Don Reid Don Reid describes his latest novel, Piano Days, as “just one big Statler Brothers song without the music.” And that’s how I felt while reading it. I’ve been a Statler Brothers fan since they started recording country music in the 1960s. Reid was the quartet’s lead singer and primary songwriter. In the […]
By Rita Dragonette The Fourteenth of September is the debut novel of public relations executive Rita Dragonette, who recalls her personal experiences of fifty years ago in telling the story. She draws an excellent picture of the turmoil on college campuses as antiwar sentiment increased in 1969. The book opens with protagonist Judy Talton, a […]
By Lisa Unger “The last time I saw my husband . . .” is how Lisa Unger begins her literary thriller, Die For You. The protagonist is Isabel Raine, a best-selling author with a loving husband of five years. Marcus kisses her goodbye and heads to his New York City office, while she begins her […]
By Barbara Taylor Bradford The Cavendon Luck, which opens in 1938, rounds out the three-book Cavendon Hall series of Barbara Taylor Bradford novels. Cavendon Hall covered the Great War of 1914-18, and The Cavendon Women took place in the mid-1920s. The fictional Cavendon Hall in Yorkshire, England, is home to the aristocratic family of Lord Charles […]
By Barbara Taylor Bradford The Cavendon Women, the thirtieth novel of Barbara Taylor Bradford, takes place in the mid-1920s and is the sequel to Cavendon Hall, which covered the Great War of 1914-18. Bradford, born and raised in England, was inducted by Queen Elizabeth into the Order of the British Empire in 2007 for her […]
By J.T. Ellison Where All the Dead Lie is J.T. Ellison’s seventh crime thriller featuring the exploits of Taylor Jackson, a homicide lieutenant in Nashville, Tennessee. When the story opens, Taylor is recovering from a bullet wound to the head, which caused her to lose her voice. She suffers from guilt for failing to prevent […]
By Mark Mills By the spring of 1942, the tiny island of Malta, located south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, is the most bombed patch of ground in the world. Pounded incessantly by German and Italian warplanes, the Maltese are losing confidence in the power of Great Britain to protect its colony. Loyalists who […]
By Dara Horn It is Passover 1862 and Jacob Rappaport is in New Orleans to murder his uncle. Once unable to rebel against his father’s orders, he is now helpless to refuse the orders of his Army superiors. A 19-year-old who escaped from an arranged marriage and joined the Union Army, Jacob has been sent […]
By Jane Borodale When seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel discovers she’s pregnant, she steals a neighbor’s gold coins and runs away to London. Her impoverished rural Sussex family can’t support another child, and she would be forced to marry the neighbor who raped her. With her possessions tied inside a piece of oilcloth, she sneaks away before […]