Malice House is a well-written dark mystery where things go bump in the night. After leaving her marriage, with nowhere else to go, Haven Marbury moves into
Category Archives: Fiction
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta truly is an odyssey of one trans woman’s life as she transitions from being incarcerated to being released.
Bad Fruit by Ella King
Bad Fruit has a couple of bad apples and one girl just trying to survive them. It’s the summer holidays, and Lily is waiting for the fall when she’ll commenc…
It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler
It All Comes Down to This is a slowly-paced family drama. Marti Geller knows she will be dying soon. It’s only a matter of days. She has organized everything…
Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek
Little Foxes Took Up Matches is a sometimes dark, sometimes sweet coming-of-age tale. Mitya was just two when he swallowed his grandmother’s sewing needle…
The Summer We Buried
The Summer We Buried by Jody Gehrman is a suspenseful story with many reveals along the way. Twenty years ago, Tansy fell under Selene’s charming and erratic…
The Secret by Debbie Howells
The Secret by Debbie Howells is a tense psychological thriller that kept me reading late into the night. In the village of Abingworth, everyone has a secret…
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk is a cozy read with a dash of mystery.
Liesl Weiss has worked as a librarian…
Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
Joan Is Okay is a short novel where not a lot happens, but a lot is brewing beneath the surface. Joan is in her mid-thirties and an ICU attending at a NYC ho…
The Latinist by Mark Prins
The Latinist by Mark Prins requires patience, and possibly, a love for Antiquity. I have an abundance of the latter, but not always the former.