A group of murder suspects trapped together—perhaps snowbound at a hotel or confined on a ship at sea—is a convention of mystery novels. Angela Peach’s "47" adds a... Read More

Of the myriad ways to impress the “chicks,” few are more novel than the one tendered in "Caught in a Flap!", a naughty novel dealing mainly with the nether region of the... Read More

…Nor Shall My Sword… by Aldreg Welles has the feel of a nineteenth-century British novel. The author’s project, a modern imitation of an old beloved English novel, is... Read More

Dan Demetriad, private investigator and chief quaestor of forensics (a senior ranking police official), finds himself drawn into a strange and challenging case in "In Cofeina... Read More

Andrea Archer’s novel "Where Magic Dwells" puts a refreshing twist on timeless fairy-tale conventions. Twenty-year-old Jason VanLord should be happy about his impending... Read More

“It all seemed such a good idea at first,” explains Judas Iscariot of his betrayal of Christ. Judas’s tortured musings make up one of the twenty-one “snapshots” of... Read More

Australian David Somerville Mitchell, one of the foremost public relations practitioners in Asia during the late ’70s and ‘80s, was a logical if bold choice to change the... Read More

"Tom" is a fictionalized account of Christie Moore’s grandfather. It focuses on his experiences as a British soldier in World War I and how the war reverberates throughout his... Read More

The stressful world of Manhattan advertising, characterized by the unrelenting pressure to succeed, grounds the first installment of K.R. Barker’s trilogy, The Third Terrace... Read More

“There be allus summat as’ll come along to spoil things.” In Thistles in the Corn, by Anne Armstrong, the idea that happiness and good fortune never last is as true for... Read More

A co-pastor of a church in the United Kingdom, Agnes Mensah-Bonsu believes that Christians must learn to forgive those who transgress against them. Few would argue that the... Read More

English author Michael J. Clark’s "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" is a contrived—albeit zany and entertaining—tale, but it may miss its mark with American audiences. The main... Read More