"The Women of Magnolia" spans decades in the lives of the women of Mississippi’s Vine Manor plantation, beginning in the early 1830s with Evan Vine, who marries Englishwoman Mary Elizabeth. As a gift for his new wife, Evan refurbishes a smaller estate near the ocean...

Who is Harry? That is the question. Is Harry the unfortunate second son who is always trying to find his identity and win the affection of his mother? Can he replace his older brother, Buddy, who was born with a defective heart and died very...

The protagonist of Lynda Stephenson’s novel "The Southern Chapter of the Big Girl Panties Club" is a sometimes sassy, sometimes sarcastic, and always unpredictable sixteen-year-old girl from Clover, Texas, named Frankilee Baxter. The story opens in 1958 on the first day of freshman orientation at...

"Twoon" describes the thrill of killing others, first a drunk, then a young girl, then a couple making love in a sleeping bag on the beach. The killer loves it when the newspapers begin to refer to him/her as the "Beach Front Stabber". Meanwhile in...

"The Middle of Nowhere" begins back in the early twenties. We meet Lucy Malinda Chapman, also known as Skitchy, the fifteen year old daughter of a rancher family in West Texas. When Skitchy falls in love with Pinkney Campbell, a cotton farmer,who is several years...

“The Last Supper Catering Company” by Michaelene McElroy is a book with a different flavor. This is the first novel by the author. I certainly hope it will not be her last. I have nothing to compare the plot to; it is unique, imaginative and...

Failed journalist Josh Devlin ended up in a homeless shelter in Kentucky after wandering around for a year doing nothing. One day Josh runs into Alice, a runaway living in an old abandoned boxcar. He could see she needed food, so he brought her food...

"The Strangers On Montagu Street"(Tradd Street series book 3) by Karen White is a paranormal mystery novel I found hard to put down. The main plot of the story deals with Melanie who can see and talk to spirits just as her mother does....

In The Ghost of Bud Parrott, author Judson Hout has created a memorable glimpse into past Southern culture. Bud Parrot is a young Black man who has always worked in the cotton fields of Jackson County, Arkansas. He fashions a better life for...

The Last Dance of Gus Finley is a fictional account of an actual event. The setting was Friday, April 17, 1885, in Prestonsburg, in the eastern hills of Kentucky. Gus Finley was sentenced to die by hanging. For a year the prisoner had been housed...