My lasting first impression as a first-time reader of the rather prolific writer Ann Morven, based on her “somewhere-in-the-series” novel, The Killing of Hamlet, one of a collection featuring a common-everyday-woman investigator named Sheil B. Wright (because she usually is), is Wow, what perfectly timed...

The Bench on Van Buren Street: Living the Dream by Alexander Flint is a cultural fiction novel that revolves around the colorful personalities walking daily on the Broadwalk, in Hollywood Beach, Florida. Sharing the almost 2 1/2-mile brick straightway of Hollywood Beach Broadwalk, many of...

The Senator's Daughters (Breaking Unity Series) by J.C. Graham is a political thriller and book one of the series. The US government is bankrupt and the country is falling apart. People are not receiving their welfare checks, public housing is falling into disrepair and tensions...

The Emily Dilemma is a work of humorous fiction penned by author Guy Sigley and is the second book in The Barney Conroy Trilogy. Continuing the theme of a man who is trying to get his life together, we find our hero in a fairly...

Trials & Tribulations of Modesty Greene: A Fictional Novel About Harriet Tubman’s Historical Legacy by D W Plato has settings that sweep from a very third-world country to North America, and the huge cast of characters is equally detailed and vivid. The reader experiences eighteenth-century...

The Devil’s Bookkeepers by Mark Newhouse is set in the early 1940s when WWII is going strong. Hitler has his claws in most of Europe. Poland was one of the first countries that the Germans invaded. Bernhard Ostrowski, an engineer who was forced to migrate...

The Bobcat is a work of literary fiction with intense adult themes, penned by author Katherine Forbes Riley. The action focuses on student Laurelie, who has suffered a sexual assault and retreats to the woods with only a child whom she babysits for company. Introverted...

The P.S. Wars: Last Stand at Custer High by Geoffrey Carter takes us inside the battle for the minds of America’s young people and the debate over private vs public education. Dave Bell is a retired teacher with over thirty-odd years spent teaching at the...

The Girl on the Fifth Floor by W. Lawrence Johnston is an adventurous novel that follows the life of young Sydney. Her fate was already decided before she was even born; she was contracted to her grandfather like a piece of property. In exchange, he...

I’m sixty years old. I was a kid during the turbulent ’60s. I graduated from high school in 1976. I missed the Vietnam draft by about a year. So, I lived through the times described by John Hansen in The War Comes Home. Never have...