A rhyme scheme with rhythm that’s joyous and proud makes this nautical book such fun to read aloud. The text is packed with marine biology facts, built into a story that follows Bob’s tracks helping dolphins and whales and pelicans,... Read More

Hollywood publicist Joe Bernardi is back, in the ninth book of Peter S. Fischer’s eminently entertaining Hollywood Murder Mysteries series, "Eyewitness to Murder". The year is 1955, and Burt Lancaster and Harold Hecht want Joe to do... Read More

What could make a more beautiful palace than nature? Drawing attention to a natural world that is too often ignored, an architect named Uncle Builder shows a handful of animal friends that their forest home is worthy of a king. The awe... Read More

The stoicism of pioneers on the Great Plains is brought vividly to life through one young woman’s struggles. More than one hundred thousand Germans immigrated to the United States from Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century.... Read More

With humor and a breakneck pace, this excellent political thriller is sure to entertain mystery fans. Howard Kleinhendler’s book, "Running for the House", is a tense, well-crafted thriller that travels from a political shindig in Texas... Read More

Difficult to forget and oddly addictive, this tale of derangement deserves a high mark for keeping the answers hidden and the pages turning. Ritualized murders laced with symbolism terrorize the vineyards of Pomerol in "Deadly Tasting",... Read More

This intelligent, well-written drug thriller is also wickedly funny. Texas sheriff Hardin Steel becomes ensnared in a violent drug feud along the US-Mexican border in Randall Reneau’s suspense-and-action-crammed "South of Good". When... Read More

This mix of crime thriller and road-trip story sends three friends on a psychological excursion into everpresent danger. About a quarter of the way in, Leonce Gaiter’s novel "In the Company of Educated Men" takes a significant turn... Read More