A theater, the 2010 Olympics, and an old plantation in Louisiana are just a few of the settings for Elizabeth Elwood’s riveting mysteries in "The Agatha Principle and Other Mystery Stories". A collection of eight stories, the book is... Read More

Predators lurking in the fields and back alleys of childhood, along with the injustices of maturing in an imperfect world, may not rank high on most readers’ preferred entertainment list. But the social contribution of works such as... Read More

“There be allus summat as’ll come along to spoil things.” In Thistles in the Corn, by Anne Armstrong, the idea that happiness and good fortune never last is as true for farmer Ephraim Stower’s corn crop as it is for Will Smythe,... Read More

In "The Nameless", Liza Burgess crafts a heart-wrenching story of the ease of betrayal and the near impossibility of redemption. The prologue shows a woman entering an airport with her baby. Readers watch in horror as she sets herself... Read More

For those whose only experience with Jamaica is a cruise ship stop at Ocho Rios and an excursion to swim with dolphins or zip line in the jungle, Darren Hogarth’s "Whatever Sticks Most" will fill in many of the missing details. His is... Read More

What George MacDonald Fraser and his Flashman character did for Victoria’s England, M. D. Eyre and his similarly cowardly, selfish, oversexed rogue, Tabnit Gisgo, does for Alexander the Great’s world empire. Written with tongue... Read More

As her mother often told her, “Never ignore a good impulse.” Pat Haley showcases this commonsense advice in "Cooking with Feeling". Alongside easy everyday recipes, Haley includes an essay with each chapter. Part historical overview... Read More

Go ahead, say the title out loud, and you’ll get a sense of what this pun-filled romp through the newborn vampire’s world has in store. Corn on Macabre pokes fun at the self-help and vampire fiction genres simultaneously in this... Read More