Book Review
Last Man Standing
by Gary Presley
"Last Man Standing" is a thoughtful and exhaustive account of the life of Mort Sahl. With Last Man Standing, James Curtis offers a comprehensive and generally admiring biography of Mort Sahl, a stand-up comedian who brought the...
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No Turning Back
by Gary Presley
Events cascade at a relentless pace in this perfectly taut psychological thriller. In Tracy Buchanan’s "No Turning Back", a woman defends herself from a young, crazed assailant; when he is killed, her ordered small-town life becomes...
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Uncorking a Lie
by Gary Presley
With the aura of a cozy mystery, this sommelier-led novel is enticing and engaging. In Nadine Nettmann’s "Uncorking a Lie", a young sommelier turned detective becomes embroiled in a deadly game after discovering that an expensively...
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Tiger Pelt
by Gary Presley
Intelligent, polished, and thoroughly readable, "Tiger Pelt" is a story of deprivations and human endurance that is beyond heroic. A compassionate, sensitive story of hardship and endurance, courage and triumph, Annabelle Kim’s "Tiger...
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Cold Sweat
by Gary Presley
With its G-rated content, "Cold Sweat" would be a fun book to pick up when it’s time for a laugh. Peter Linzmeyer’s "Cold Sweat" is a light, fun read, offering humorous anecdotes and poems, all highlighted by cartoon illustrations by...
Book Review
Fortune's Fool
by Gary Presley
Bell’s is a mystery in a high literary realm. Nero is dead, Vesuvius has devastated the land, and prominent Roman lawyer and author Pliny the Younger has become entangled in another murder, in Fortune’s Fool, Bell’s sixth...
Book Review
Getting off on Frank Sinatra
by Gary Presley
A young detective stumbles over clues in this light and amusing mystery. Megan Edwards’s Getting Off on Frank Sinatra debuts a mystery series featuring Copper Black, a newbie writer for Sin City’s newspaper, the Las Vegas Light....
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The Call of Zulina
by Gary Presley
This action-driven novel will appeal to those who like highly dramatic romance in a historical setting. Set on Africa’s west coast in the late eighteenth century, Kay Marshall Strom’s "The Call of Zulina" is the first in a series of...