Galton Morrow is a prominent married Boston doctor with a thriving practice in the early 20th century. For all his success however he is consumed with questions about his parentage. His father and mother were acolytes of the utopian... Read More

A mysterious suicide a failing detective agency a corrupt politician and a love affair form the framework for Shivers’ second suspense novel Once is Never Enough. After Chicago detective Lester Miller’s affair with the married Cara... Read More

When army wife Beth reads on the Internet about the death of any soldier in Iraq, her initial fear is that one might be her husband, Doug. When it isn’t, she feels relieved, then guilty: “The fallen soldiers might not have been her... Read More

Four crumbling tombstones were uncovered in a Canadian field, where they marked the resting place of a secret that would forever disrupt the local community. The graves belonged to “former African slaves and black veterans of the War... Read More

Imagine Cary Grant. Wouldn’t he be a great dinner companion? Co-worker? Next-door neighbor? According to the author, that’s because Cary Grant was the most charming person in recorded history. Certainly, his “chiseled” good looks... Read More

In 2007, when radio shock jock Don Imus referred to the nationally acclaimed Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos,” public outrage led to his highly publicized firing by CBS and provoked a heated national discussion... Read More

How rare are unflinching acts of self-reflexivity. “Eric had once commented on how closely I listened to him. Enough to steal a piece of his soul,” ends one of the essays in Michael Greenberg’s "Beg, Borrow, Steal", an... Read More

It is the Mother from Hell who opens this novel as her son Gustav arrives at JFK Airport to spend his va-cation with his family in upstate New York. As they set off across Manhattan, Mother has words for Gustav, his Sephardic wife, his... Read More