Paris, Adrift by Vanda is an engrossing novel about a woman in the 1950s, working as an artist manager for a famous singer. The singer, Juliana, was trying to recover after a poor career move, and it’s Al’s job to help her. They head to...

David Cornish's 1980: The Emergence of HIV is a novel of historical fiction that begins with an introduction to the titular virus 14 million years prior on an East African island, and continues in a chronological and detailed timeline to its proliferation in the 1980s...

In The Artifact by Linda S. Gleason, Laurel Robertson has finally landed funding for the great archaeological project she has been hoping to take on. Her grandmother worked in the same area years before and she could hold the secrets contained at the Cahokia pyramid...

Reading a novel like Escape From Vietnam: For Some The Vietnam War Never Ended by Howard Cohen is so much more than enjoying an intricate, riveting plot and engaging with realistic and touching characters. It’s an opportunity for enlightenment, not just about the horrors experienced...

Déjà vu All Over Again by Larry Brill is the story of Nate Evans, a man on the wrong side of fifty who feels like the universe has given him the short end of the stick. His wife has had an affair, his home has...

The Prototype by Sam Mitani is a cleverly plotted crime novel with sophisticated characters and a plot that takes readers to places they never could have imagined. I never expect a good story to feature a plot where one thing leads logically to another. No...

The Beast Within by Liz Cowan is a wonderful rendition of Beauty and the Beast. This is a second such novel that I have read and this one is by far the more modern and approachable story line. It is more believable and enjoyable because...

Emily never lived in Seattle’s Blue Diamond apartments but now she’s packing up her parent’s unit following the death of her abusive, alcoholic mother. An awkward misfit who aspires to be an artist, Emily is stuck working for her famous father in a job she...

Kricket by Penni Jones is a dystopian novel set in present times. Kricket is a member of the Religious Resistance, fighting to restore religious freedom after the Religious Uniformity Act took it away. A close call sees Kricket leaving the activists to protect her daughter...

Will to Survive: Stop the Jihadists by Coleman Paul is a hard-hitting short story. Four veterans returned from a tour of Afghanistan. All they have in mind is revenge. They want the jihadists quivering in their boots. They meet to plot, believing that the government...