Wycoff’s vivid setting and intriguing plot create a fascinating ancient-Egyptian story from start to finish. Enlightenment, danger, and love await the young protagonist of Merrie P. Wycoff’s "Stealing the Shadow of Death", the second... Read More

Gardham expertly weaves flashbacks, and the main character’s spotty memory, with parallel present-day scenes in this psychological mystery. Ethan Jones can’t make up his mind. He planned on a dependable career as a mechanical... Read More

The Texas-Mexico border makes for a thrilling, violent setting for this gritty novel of drug cartels, police dedication, and family. If you live in the American Southwest, newspapers assault you with drug-war statistics. In other parts... Read More

This larger-than-life protagonist and all his flaws make this tense adventure a thrill to read. Jack Madson has an anger he can’t shake: he fights, he regularly loses his cool, and he doesn’t let up even when he knows what’s good... Read More

Captivating with its spiraling story line, "Murder Once Removed" is sure to excite and entertain any seasoned murder mystery reader. An exciting whodunit, Roz Russell’s "Murder Once Removed" is a roller coaster of a mystery, with... Read More

Rarely are theological works so lucidly constructed and gorgeously formed. "Ask the Beasts", a new theological effort from Fordham professor Elizabeth A. Johnson, pursues questions of humanity’s interdependence with and divinely... Read More

Traditionally feminine ideals of community and cooperation are celebrated here as sources of great power. Rachel McClellan holds nothing back in the fast-paced, dramatic conclusion to her popular fantasy series. In the final installment... Read More

Intimate settings and deep character development break down the internal rationalizations that allowed the apartheid to last. A literary study of domestic South Africa, "The Crack" mirrors the wider political situation of the Soweto... Read More