One might consider a story about a Russian sniper becoming best friends with Eleanor Roosevelt and touring the country a wild fable, but...

Sparring Partners is a collection of three novellas with the common thread of lawyers and prisons one would expect from John Grisham. The...

Lawrence Anthony has a job he loves, and few others would. He’s responsible for a sprawling game preserve in South Africa. The Elephant...

Marcia’s Dead has all the ingredients of a classic murder mystery, expertly written. We start with a questionable death, add a...

In Lost in Time, Riddle takes us on a twisting roller coaster of time travel. Like a detective story, the book begins with a murder and a...

When I first approached American Dirt, I assumed it was a story I’ve read and viewed in movies, one of the brutal hardships of those who...

You have seen my blog review of Cloud Cuckoo Land by the very talented Anthony Doerr. His previous masterpiece was All the Light We...

I was honored to be a judge for Beach Holidays ‘Beach Holidays’ anthology to be published in late 2022 August 17, 2022 Cat & Mouse Press...

Denouement the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or...

Jake Needham takes you to Thailand on another Jack Shepherd adventure. This time around, we get to know a young DEA lawyer, Lucas Ryan,...

One of my favorite books is All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. So, when Doerr came out with his next work, Cloud Cuckoo Land,...

When I first encountered The Immortality Key, I was skeptical. Proving that the earliest religions used psychedelics? Was this written by...

You may have seen my book review of Nightmare Alley. Since that review, I’ve seen the recent movie version starring Bradley Cooper. I...

Is it just me, or do the details matter when enjoying fiction? As a citizen of the Washington, DC, area, it annoyed me when the character...

James Paterson’s collaboration with celebrities is an interesting exercise in guessing where one collaborators' work ends and the other...

I was born in North Carolina and went to N.C. State, therefore basketball is my heritage. North Carolina has four traditional powerhouses...

A few months ago, while my wife and I prepared for a signing in our local bookstore of my latest novel, we saw on a nearby rack Nightmare...

A friend thought The Lincoln Highway at 592 pages was too long, but for me, I didn’t want it to stop. I knew Amor Towles could deliver...

I’ve used YouTube for many years. I like making videos and sharing with my friends. At the beginning of December 2021, one of my videos,...

I became interested in the Roman emperor Nero in researching my novel The Fire Starters and touring his buried Golden House in Rome. The...