No, Dear Mr Knightley isn’t the book I was struggling to read the other day. After reading over half of that one, I finally gave up. Instead, I moved on to Katherine Reay’s epistolary n…

Stars : 4 out of 5 Pros : Good mystery with fun characters Cons : Typical low budget cheese at times The Bottom Line : Missing Reporter Appe...

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In April 2015, B.K. Stevens debuted the blog series “The First Two Pages,” hosting craft essays by short story writers […]

The clock struck October, and with it, we welcomed in a slew of meaty, fascinating, and binge-worthy books. At long last, Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, a much-anticipated work by the 88-yea…

In 1944, Allied bombers flew missions from Italy to hit targets in Romania. Every day, hundreds of heavy bombers and their fighter escorts flew over the Adriatic Sea and Yugoslavia to reach their o…

What is it about small town America—in book and onscreen—that we find so compelling? A question I first confronted as a teenager, growing up in a quiet corner of London, England back in the 1980s. …

Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (available to stream on Netflix), is an anthology of six vignettes about life in the Old West. Each story stands alone—the only apparent lin…

I mentioned Theresa Carle-Sanders book, The In Death Cookbook, several months ago. The foreword is by J.D. Robb, who writes the wonderful In Death series featuring Eve Dallas and her husband, Roark…

Larceny & Last Chances: 22 Stories of Mystery & Suspense (A Superior Shores Anthology Book 4) - Kindle edition by Penz Sheluk, Judy. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Larceny & Last Chances: 22 Stories of Mystery & Suspense (A Superior Shores Anthology Book 4).

Reviewed by Jeanne Newlywed Lee Barrett is taking on yet another new job at WICH-TV, Salem’s aptly-lettered local TV station. This tim...

Stolen in Death - Kindle edition by Robb, J. D.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Stolen in Death.

Do you read like I do? When I’m loving a book, I can tear through 400 pages in one day, two at the most. When a book is not appealing to me, I slog through it, and it takes me days. I’v…

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