Powell has done the law and every citizen a great favor by calling out an unholy practice of government attorneys. Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, by defense attorney Sidney Powell, is a lurid tale of... Read More

Collie’s natural, conversational style maintains high literary standards. Disillusionment and discouragement threaten to derail a young woman’s aspirations in her first year of college in this revealing look at the reality of... Read More

Well-researched historical scenes of nineteenth-century San Francisco and New York bring a dime novel atmosphere to this humorous adventure. Watt O’Hugh Underground, the sequel to Steven S. Drachman’s 2011 debut, The Ghosts of Watt... Read More

This memorable satire features fictional versions of JFK, Fidel, God, and Jesus maneuvering to influence events. Exuberant in its depiction of a communist country threatened by capitalism, and of an American president who “understood... Read More

Neither a murder mystery nor a thriller, "Treachery in Bordeaux" is, as its name implies, about treachery. In this first of a planned series of mysteries set in the Bordeaux region of France, we meet Benjamin Cooker, a renowned vintner... Read More

The swamps that encircle Sebastian, Florida, are brackish incubators where abandoned pets grow into tropical predators, threatening the well-lit monotony of manicured lawns and fenced-in yards. But the paved streets and gated... Read More

The mid-twentieth century was a period of turmoil for women as they confronted the constraints of domestic tradition, torn between independence and dependence. These particular decades provide the perfect setting for Molly Odegard... Read More

The Critic’s Handbook to Pontificating About Everything offers no guidance on how to assess the quality of an opera libretto that’s written in the form of a mystery novel—which is precisely what "Quicksand" announces itself to be.... Read More