A heart stent that may save lives—or end them—creates an ethical minefield that threatens the future of an entire town in this first of the Jonas Hawke novels.
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When a teen cries #metoo with nothing but her word to back it up, Jonas is left to sort out a mystery that could destroy the career of a man who may be innocent .
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Hints of a dark secret from the past could easily upend the gubernatorial election in Vermont, putting Jonas on the spot in the latest Jonas Hawke novel.
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Nothing is what it seems. Remember that as you romp through Fredrik Backman’s latest gem of a novel, Anxious People. The bank robbery that begins the book isn’t actually a bank robbery, and the resulting hostage situation that follows in an apartment across the street isn’t really a hostage situation,...
I’ve read a lot of crime fiction over the past couple of years–first because I was writing my own and lately because I’m trying to decide whether to write another. Three that I read recently are very different but all excellent, no doubt because the authors are skilled and experienced....
Summer reads (aka beach books) get a bad rap, the phrase often treated as a synonym for mindless drivel. But I can’t think of a better book to recommend for summer readying than Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews. It’s fun, easy lifting, and hard to put down. And...
5 of 5 stars to The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=4239649245
Interesting list of Booker Prize finalists -- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/books/booker-prize-2021-shortlist.html?smid=tw-share
Timely, thoughtful short story in this week's New Yorker (subscription) from Han Ong -- “The Monkey Who Speaks” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-monkey-who-speaks?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned via @NewYorker
