Sometimes families can be quite complicated. Add into the mix three adopted children, one Chinese and two Japanese, shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and family life becomes increasingly more complicated. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s, Professor Daniel Jonson inherits...

It’s fascinating to come away from a crime novel more disturbed by the psychological aspects of why the crime happened than by the crime itself. That’s what impressed me most about Housewife by Karen Crawford. Erica, a bored, wealthy housewife, is ready for an affair....

Integrity Based Policing: Policing the Streets of Las Vegas by Dan Barry is a crime novel that reads like a compelling work of non-fiction. This comprehensive book is full of powerful stories about policing with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department and is based on...

Rose was wild and free. While she was born of noble blood and was expected to act like a proper lady, she chose to defy all of these odds. The only one holding her back was her mother, Anne. Christina Tsirkas has crafted The Night...

Tenuous Connections by Linda Jones is the story of Gwynna, a ghost. More than just a scary 'ghost in the house story,' the plot follows the different lives that Gwynna once had. She started in an orphan house run by nuns in the era of...

Afghan's Lipstick Warriors is written by author Gary Paul Corcoran. The lipstick warriors are a band of Afghan women who decide to do what their Afghan husbands and brothers won’t when it comes to standing up to the Taliban. On seeing the US withdrawing their...

Apricots: A War Novel by John E. Holloway is a historically rooted and exquisitely written account from a Marine Lieutenant’s perspective. It conveys his experiences in Grenada and Beirut, Lebanon. Each chapter is headed by direct quotes from the New York Times, the Washington...

The Monsters of Chavez Ravine by Debra Castaneda is an urban fantasy tale set in the Chavez Ravine canyon of Los Angeles in 1952. When news of her father's failing health reaches the ears of Trini Duran, a young woman of Mexican American descent, she...

Rebirth in Acadi is a work of cultural fiction by author Susan Swanson. Family trees can be very complicated, as Elizabeth Bancroft, who renames herself Louise Dennis, is about to find out. Of course, everyone has skeletons hiding in their closet. Louise is of African-American...

A Pastor’s Pit by Judge Roy Sparkman toys with your rational thoughts and challenges your beliefs about religious liberties, with no guarantee of protection of constitutional freedoms. Pastor Preston Curtis has been indicted and put on trial for preaching from the Bible. It sounds harmless,...