Book Musings: A Gathering of Secrets by Linda Castillo
A Gathering of Secrets is a crime novel taking place during the current time in Painters Mill, an Amish community in Ohio. It begins with a grisly Prologue during which Emma Miller, a seventeen year old Amish girl, hangs herself in the family barn. Chapter One occurs...
Book Musings: The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
Lori Lansens begins her novel with a compelling letter from Daniel’s father to his teenage son who is about to leave for college. He wants to share a horrific life-changing event that happened about 20 years ago; much of what he never revealed to his wife. On his...
Book Musings: The House of Kane by Barbara Casey
The House of Kane by Barbara Casey tells the story of Aislinn Marchant; an editor, teacher and author whom Kane Publishing hires to investigate rejected submissions subsequently published by other houses, most notably its competitor, Sheldon-Talbert. In chronicling...
Book Musings: Hiding the Past by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
Hiding the Past is about Morton Farrier, a forensic genealogist on the cusp of forty, and his investigation into his client’s death. Peter Coldrick lacks details about his deceased father, James Coldrick and he hires Farrier to research his father’s birth. Hours after...
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
Travelling influences what I read and a recent trip through Japan made me keen to familiarize myself with Japanese writers. Yasunari Kawabata was the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature and, as a result, I selected his1959 published book,...Marianne’s Books
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