A rollicking pace, complex characters, skillful turns of phrase, and evocative imagery make this book enjoyable. Carter Wilson’s "The Comfort of Black" is a superior thriller full of unpredictable twists. Themes of the repetition of... Read More

Those looking for a meaningful story forged against the backdrop of a relevant social construct will enjoy going on this adventure. In "The Right Wrong Thing", a novel by Ellen Kirschman, police psychologist Dr. Dot Meyerhoff discovers... Read More

Sinett speaks to his readers much as he might speak with patients in his office, offering methods to personalize back-pain relief. The phrase “back pain” is all too often accompanied by the word “chronic.” Chiropractor and... Read More

The desires of these characters are deeply ingrained, propelling this murder mystery into psychological terrain. A tale of a small-town girl murdered introduces this sordid novel of a serial killer and the big-city policeman dedicated to... Read More

Plato’s Cave is a dive bar in this allegory of an allegory, where love, loss, and motherhood force a bartender to come of age. An ode to the process of finding oneself in the fray of love and loss that is early adulthood, The Drunken... Read More

A strange, violent land at the far edge of the Roman empire sets the stage for this essentially human war tale. In "War at the Edge of the World", the first book of a planned series entitled Twilight of Empire, Ian James Ross offers a... Read More

An alternate history works as a period detective story and an adventure yarn about heroes on the run. In Lincoln’s Bodyguard by T. J. Turner, a half–Native American bodyguard takes on a special mission from Abraham Lincoln, traveling... Read More

Lelchuk’s metatextual approach to the mystery of Raoul Wallenberg realistically blends the line of fact and fiction. The fate of Raoul Wallenberg has remained a mystery for seventy years, and Alan Lelchuk’s novel "Searching for... Read More