Ultimately heartwarming despite its macabre circumstances, "No Straight Thing" is an engrossing historical mystery. In F. Nelson Smith’s character-driven novel, "No Straight Thing", a murder mystery connects a war veteran and a young... Read More
Everything we know about a story is told to us by the narrator. But what happens when you can’t trust the storyteller? The Girl on the Train is an example of an unreliable narrator. The movie, based on the Paula Hawkins novel, is in... Read More
The familiar becomes new again as ceramic cats experience the four seasons for the first time. When inanimate objects come alive, imagination runs rampant. Carl Wetzel’s children’s book, The Adventures of Rhumba and Tuba: First... Read More
Children love hearing true stories. They are often more surprising than fiction. In this embellished true story, a homeless chicken and a black cat meet, become friends, and find the chicken a coop. Columbus the cat brings Henrietta the... Read More
Cat Austen may be the only heroine in mystery fiction who guiltily hopes someone will be murdered so that she won’t have to take a romantic trip with her boyfriend. Cat gets her wish, and boyfriend Lt. Victor Cardenas must cancel their... Read More
Small Fires / Ronnie Turner /
Orenda Books /
Softcover $16.99 (300pp) /
978-1-916788-47-3 /
Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Ronnie Turner’s eerie novel Small Fires, a land is ruled by tales of the devil. Suspected for... Read More
In Sarah Gerard’s spare and elegant novella "The Butter House", a woman seeks solace and contemplates her future while she settles into a new home with her boyfriend and two cats. The woman and her boyfriend leave Brooklyn for an... Read More
The Winter Charlatan / Victoria McCombs /
IngramSpark /
Softcover $13.99 (350pp) /
978-1-73651-640-9 / In Victoria McCombs’s The Winter Charlatan, a desperate but determined princess works to save her kingdom and break her curse.... Read More