A debut mystery that morphs into a thriller, R.J. Hall’s "A Shade of Gray" opens with the shooting of a black teenaged robber and ends with the assassination of a drug warlord in Colombia. In between, there’s a glut of old-fashioned... Read More

More of a novella than a novel, Luz M. Guzman’s mystery offers an ensemble cast of interesting characters, including the central one, Lydia, a four-year-old found wandering alone and hungry in the snowbound setting of a small town in... Read More

Billed as a young-adult, coming-of-age story, Bonnie Turner’s novel deals with some pretty mature adult themes. Packed with action and adventure and set in the Canadian Arctic in the late 1930s, the intriguing plot blends Inuit... Read More

Based on an event that took place in 1932 this novel reshapes the deadly shooting of a white teenager Michael “Son” Morrison Moss Jr. by a black schoolteacher in Austin Texas. The author chronicles sixty-year-old Charlie Jarrell’s... Read More

After an absence of forty-two years languages professor A. Colin Wright returned for a visit to Sardinia. His nostalgic novel "Sardinian Silver" he says in its afterword “evokes a Sardinia that no longer exists but which had a quality... Read More

During the 2007 US Naval Academy’s football season Presbyterian minister John Owen served as the team’s chaplain—a position he sometimes found ambiguous and challenging but always memorable and rewarding. His concisely written book... Read More

Golfers of the world will be heartened to learn that a cure has been found for the common malady “the yips.” The condition according to golf aficionado Kurt Pugh consists of “involuntary motions of the hands or wrists that can make... Read More

A considerable amount of care and attention has gone into the production of Reverend Michael Alan Paull’s anthology, A Collection of Anecdotes and Personal Reflections on Life. The book includes fifty-six one-page textual entries... Read More