Boy, do I have a backlog of books to tell you about! Let’s start with one that’s still sitting on my desk – Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica In downtown Chicago, a young woman named Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her friend and… Read more

I received a copy of this from the author, and while I don’t know that I will have time to review it in the near future, I always love sharing new books with you! So check out Coyote by Bran Gustafson: Coyote is a hard-hitting noir and modern western, best enjoyed in a cheap roadside motel or in the corner booth… Read more

This is getting some great blurbs from some of my favorite authors – Dark Matter by Blake Crouch: “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason’s never met smiles… Read more

I always love seeing a package from Harper Collins in the mailbox! This is going to be another great read – Rare Objects by Kathleen Tessaro: In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing work of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume… Read more

This is one that should be really interesting – Delta Lady: A Memoir by Rita Coolidge The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience. She inspired songs—Leon Russell wrote “A Song for You” and “Delta Lady” for her, Stephen Stills wrote “Cherokee.” She co-wrote… Read more

Here’s one I found on my Kindle that I am really enjoying, Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff: The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose… Read more

Another promising title that showed up while I was gone, A Man of Genius by Janet Todd: A Man of Genius portrays a psychological journey from safety into obsession and secrecy. It mirrors a physical passage from flamboyant Regency England through a Europe conquered by Napoleon. Ann, a successful writer of cheap Gothic novels, becomes obsessed with Robert James, regarded by many,… Read more