I can’t believe that this is the sixth Jackson Brodie novel! It’s always a jolt to pick up the latest in the series and realize that about as much time has passed in the books as it has in the real world. Jackson is now well into his 60s, reflecting on his mortality and ruing…
Mike Brink was a teenage football star when an on-field collision knocked him out and changed his life forever. He woke up from his concussion with a strange ability that nearly drove him to suicide, before his mother intervened and got him to open up to her about the things he had started seeing: He…
Miles Knox came home from his service in the Vietnam War forever changed. Decades later, he has a well-paying job in a rural Indiana factory, but still can’t shake the ghosts of the dead who haunt his daily life. He also hates feeling the increasing burdens of age, and resorts to steroid abuse in order…
Clare came to Edinburgh looking for a new life. Now that she’s enrolled at St Andrew’s, surrounded by smart people of every set, she thinks she’s ready to make friends and forge a bright future for herself. But she also knows she has to be careful about whom she lets into her inner circle. She…
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with R.J. Jacobs, whose newest book, Always the First to Die, was an October release from Poisoned Pen Press. In preparation for this interview, I read the novel. It was fast-paced and fun, and the atmosphere was perfect. If you’re looking for your next read, check it out.…
Lem Devlin has had it with being surrounded by art that costs more than his entire life. Working for the Fine Artemis shipping and storage company, he doesn’t mind so much the value assigned to the beauty he sees every day. What bothers him is the casual consumerism that buys an extravagant work of art…
Yip Tolroy was born mute, but even before his speechlessness was discerned, the pale, hairless baby was not thought to be long for this world. His father, already in a state of high emotion at the birth of his first child, went outside to get some air after the doctor expressed his doubts as to…
