While at first glance "The Newspaper Widow" seems like a standard historical mystery, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard’s novel is full and complex, overflowing with textured, fully realized... Read More

Tommy O’Tom uses classic elements, from humanized zoo animals to mostly absent grownups, to make an everyday event anything but ordinary. JTK Belle and Mike Motz turn bath-time rituals into a whimsical fantasy in Tommy O’Tom in a Tub... Read More

The color palette and shading are subtle but effective in this psychological drama that seems simple but perhaps isn’t. Alex Potts uses the strange and isolated atmosphere of a fictional, aging, river-bordered town to cast a moody... Read More

"Sing for the Dead" is a thrilling mystery that harks back to the glory days of pulp fiction. Packed with action and suspicious characters, Cynthia Drew’s satisfying "Sing for the Dead" is a hard-boiled mystery with nonstop twists. A... Read More

"The Network Sage" is a useful and well-researched self-help book that forwards methods for analyzing and changing relationships for the better. Glenna Crooks’s inclusive and enlightening self-help book, "The Network Sage", includes... Read More

Jones has a gift for drawing beauty out from brutality, even when it’s of a lopsided and unexpected sort. Welcome to Andermatt County, Texas, a place that exists at a phantasmagoric crossroads between Southern gentility and vice, whose... Read More

"The Separation" is an entertaining dystopian thriller centered in a repressed future America. In Thomas Duffy’s smart and timely Big Brother thriller "The Separation", a mathematical genius is caught up in a dangerous game with the... Read More

"Death of a Movie Star" evolves past its satire to become an engaging examination of the nuanced people behind famous faces. Timothy Patrick’s "Death of a Movie Star" paints a vivid picture of the price of fame. It is a compelling and... Read More