Author Amita Parikh has written a fantastic debut novel, looking at a traveling circus through Europe before and during WWII. Theo Papadopoulos is one of the top illusionists in the world, and one of the stars of the show. His wife died during childbirth in 1929 in...
Book Review: ‘The Girls Who Disappeared: A Novel’ By Claire Douglas
In November, of 1998, in a small English town, four young friends are returning from a night of drinking, with Olivia Rutherford driving. It's raining, and they're on the Devil's Corridor, and Olivia sees someone in the road, swerves and the car flips over. When she...
Book Review: ‘Nine Liars: A Truly Devious Novel’ By Maureen Johnson
The fifth novel in the Truly Devious series is another winner. High school senior, and murderer solver, Stevie Bell is at a loss. She has no new cases to investigate, her best friends are all apply for college, she's not sure what she wants to do, and her boyfriend...
Book Review: ‘The House In The Pines: A Novel’ By Ana Reyes
When Maya was a high school senior her best friend, Aubrey, suddenly died when she was with a mysterious man named Frank, someone Maya had been around all summer long. Now seven years later Maya sees a video online and it shocks her. A man and a woman are in a diner,...
Book Review: ‘Code 6: A Novel’ By James Grippando
Kate Gamble is going to law school and is a writer of plays. She has a big break reading in front of a famour producer, who could produce her play. It doesn't go well and she leaves in tears. Then on the way home to her rich parent's penthouse where she is living,...
Book Review: ‘Picture In The Sand: A Novel’ By Peter Blauner
Alex Hassan is part of a middle-class American/Egyptian family and has gotten into an Ivy League school. He has his whole future ahead of him. But he has become radicalized and soon takes off for Syria to join a holy war. He cuts off his family, except his Grandfather...
Book Review: ‘Night Shift: A Novel’ By Robin Cook
Jack Stapleton and his wife Laurie are both medical examiners, she runs the department, and he does autopsies. On this day, the body of their friend Dr. Susan Passero is on the slab, and Jack does the autopsy. He doesn't find anything unusual, and this bothers him, as...
Book Review: ‘One Last Secret: A Novel’ By Adele Parks
Dora is a high-priced escort and has been for years. Now she's ready to retire and marry her best friend Evan, who is also rich, and leave escort world for good. While Evan is away on business, one of Dora's former clients Daniel wants her for one last assisgnment and...
Book Review: ‘Tom Clancy Red Winter: A Jack Ryan Novel’ By Marc Cameron
The year is 1985 and Jack Ryan is living in London with his wife Kathy and his two young kids, when he's called to Washington by the CIA, and given a new assignment. He's to go to East Germany, with a young Mary Pat Foley (who he meets for the first time), and John...
Book Review: ‘A World Of Curiosities: An Chief Inspector Gamache Novel’ By Louise Penny
The 18th novel in the series is great. Two people from Gamache and Jean-Guy's past come back to Three Pines, and danger bring danger with them. Years ago Fiona and Sam's mother was found murdered and Inspector Gamache and a young Jean are working the case. It's the...




