Feared by Lisa Scottoline (Mystery/Law Novel, 2018). The latest in a substantial series of fast-moving legal/mystery/thrillers from this best-selling, Edgar Award-winning author, this one finds the law form of Rosato & DiNunzio being sued for reverse discrimination. Three young lawyers claim they weren’t hired simply because they were men. Additionally, John Foxman, the firm’s only male […]
Read more "REVIEWED: Feared"Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight, Her Work, Her Life by Antonia Felix (Biography, 2018). It may seem a bit early for a full biography of Senator Warren, given that she is–in terms of her political career–still in the early prime of life. Much more may be forthcoming from her, but she is one of the leading figures […]
Read more "REVIEWED: Elizabeth Warren: Her fight, Her Work, Her Life"Death Doesn’t Bargain by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Historical Fantasy Novel, 2018). Bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon does so many book series, in so many genres (often, as here, blending several genres together) that it’s very hard to keep up with it all. This one is the 2nd book in the Deadman’s Cross cycle. I haven’t seen the previous […]
Read more "REVIEWED: Death Doesn’t Bargain"MEM by Bethany C. Morrow (Alternate History SF Novel, 2018). In this version of the 1920’s, we’re a couple decades into an odd new technology where doctors can remove selected memories from patients. In the process, these memories are brought to a separate life. These artificially created people, called ‘Mems,’ are exact duplicates of their ‘Sources’ […]
Read more "REVIEWED: MEM"It All Falls Down by Sheena Kamal (Crime/Thriller, 2018). Canada’s disastrous 1950s-era policy of adopting out indigenous children to non-Native American (or as they say in Canada, First Nations) families provides the background for author Sheena Kamal’s novels revolving around Nora Watts. I missed the first of these, The Lost Ones, but this is the second and […]
Read more "REVIEWED: It All Falls Down"The Court Dancer by Kyung-Sook Shin (Historical Novel, 2018). Kyung-Sook Shin is one of South Korea’s most prominent and awarded novelists. She also hit the New York Times bestseller list with Please Look After Mom. Her newest book is a historical novel, evoking the last years of the 19th century. The previously isolationist Kingdom of Korea is slowly opening […]
Read more "REVIEWED: The Court Dancer"Spy Master by Brad Thor (Spy Thriller, 2018). Brad Thor, hailed as “the ultimate thriller writer,” again unleashes super-spy Scot Harvath amid frequent bouts of action/adventure/violence in his latest novel. While he’s considering a pullback from field work in favor of taking a desk job in the private intelligence outfit his now-senile mentor founded (and maybe […]
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