Plenty of great Scottish crime writers have entertained us for years with their special blend of deadly Celtic noir. Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Allan Guthrie, Stuart MacBride—to name but a few.
Successfully mixing two genres—comedy and crime—is a daunting task, but talented writers, like Tim Dorsey, manage to accomplish what readers seek in the mixture of the two.
Eloisa James has splendidly blended an old-fashioned fairy tale with a new-fangled romance and a popular television show, giving readers humor mixed with touching romance and titillating passion.
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have done it again—and have done so with efficacy. In creating a new hero, they have assured their many enduring fans a fast paced read.
Encountering a tumultuous youth precipitated by the tension between her unhappy parents, Daisy Bellamy and her family spent the summer before her senior year of high school at the family compound a
On the back cover of You Know When the Men Are Gone, whoever it is who creates such marketing copy writes: “There is an army of women waiting for their men to return to Fort Hood, Texas.
In a work exploring just what one moment can do to a small town and a once picture perfect family, Gudenkauf has created a novel of page-turning depth.
Suspensful, spectacular, and searing are not adjectives one would use to describe The Calligrapher’s Secret. Intriguing, intelligent, and multifaceted are far more accurate to convey what
In her debut book The Daughters, Joanna Philbin introduced us to three best friends: Carina, daughter of one of the richest men in the world; Hudson, daughter of a famous pop star; and Liz
Many, if not most, series authors reach a point where they want to change direction, either to freshen the experience of writing about the same characters year after year, or because the characters
Due to a flaw in the genetic engineering designed to prolong the life of the population, men only live to 25 years of age, and women only live to be 20.
