Alaska’s sense of place and an exploration of family and faith blend to reveal this intriguing narrator: a good man with his share of faults. With his strong debut novel, Dan Berne takes the story of a longstanding family feud and... Read More

The key elements of a gumshoe mystery combine with exciting historical details to build this fast-faced narrative. "The Country I Lived In" is a throwback detective story, mixing Cold War paranoia with lone-wolf gumshoe adventure. By... Read More

Rooney successfully captures both the excitement of a political campaign and the ennui of a going-nowhere office job in this character-driven novel. In Kathleen Rooney’s novel "O, Democracy!", working on a Senate reelection campaign... Read More

An old-fashioned noir plot features an effective female detective protagonist. With Death By Misadventure, E. E. Smith creates a throwback mystery story, set shortly after World War II, featuring a female detective in her twenties who... Read More

From villains like John Wilkes Booth to heroes like TR and Tesla, they all had that certain something. While there have been many ways to capture the public imagination throughout history, being attractive has certainly never hurt. Some... Read More

Inspired by surrealist paintings, these short stories are filled with allegory, as well as detail that adds layer to the original work of art. In "Domestic Disturbances", Peter Grandbois crafts a series of stories that describe strange... Read More

Sharing the seemingly ordinary setting of the Midwest, these short stories turn simple and normal into weird, melancholy, and wonderful. Christopher Merkner has a deeply weird sensibility, and it makes his short fiction a pleasure to... Read More

Exploring historical possibilities, this intriguing analysis attempts to answer one of Western religion’s most pressing questions: why was the Bible written? When and by whom the books of the Bible were written remain among history’s... Read More