Elliot Blake has spent much of his career telling stories in forms that require large numbers of people to agree on what the story is. Animation needs artists, actors, producers, and an improbable degree of patience. Prose, by comparison, requires a chair.
Hester Smith, begins in 1934 as a shy, bookish spinster delivering the post by bicycle through the fictional Dorset village of Puddlington. Then war arrives, and Hester becomes the bearer of War Department telegrams. Suddenly, the village postmistress is carrying death from house to house.
Round Up the Unusual Suspects is the third installment in Elizabeth Crowens classic-Hollywood detective series. When a stagehand is murdered on the Casablanca soundstage, Jack L. Warner calls upon private investigators Babs Norman and Guy Brandt.
Nathan Jorgenson’s new novel, Otto’s Portal, begins with a metaphysical: if the soul leaves the body at death, what keeps it attached while we are alive?
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The windows of his restored, two-hundred-year-old house on an island off the coast of Maine provides an appropriately unsettled headquarters for R. John Dingle’s stories of isolation, buried guilt, and the elaborate secrets of small towns.
Steven L. Conley’s new espionage novel, FALSE FLAG, is a fictionalized account inspired by the real-life hunt for a Chinese mole inside the FBI. The book occupies that uneasy borderland between thriller and confession.
In Margaret Mizushima’s Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries, the mountains listen. Snow presses against the Colorado high country with the hush of an accomplice. Canyons conceal more than weather. And a dog’s lifted muzzle may be the first sign that civilization’s careful arrangements have begun to...
Dara Levan is interested in the moments when life reveals its stress fractures. The novel’s title suggests devastation, but the book, as she describes it, is not merely about being broken. It is about what a person does after the breaking.
Steven Rubin’s The Unraveling of Michael Galler begins not with a monster in the room but with an absence. Michael is eight years old when his mother dies of cancer. From that point forward the world becomes a place where invisible things gather strength in silence.
John Winn Miller’s MIRIAM IN THE SHADOWS has found in historical fiction what journalism could not always permit: the emotional weather behind the documented fact.
Behind Lena Fein’s accomplishments was a child raised in madness, under the shadow of a violent and controlling mother, in a house where cleanliness was worshiped, porcelain dolls were treasured, and Lena’s own spirit was forced into hiding.
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