All the world’s a stage when an actress and a terminally ill TV executive meet in this biting comedy. It takes a special kind of talent to simultaneously skewer Hollywood and Shakespeare while writing a thought-provoking novel, and... Read More

Battle-scarred veterans are depicted as both victims and heroes in this explosive police thriller. It might seem cliché to have a narrative about former veterans as cops trying to stop madmen from blowing up innocents. It’s true we... Read More

Terse yet evocative descriptions portray characters deeply with a minimal number of words. Life, death, and the right path to take while alive are some of the themes poignantly explored in Death’s Way, the fifth book featuring... Read More

Good and evil are questioned, violence is confronted as part of the human experience, and characters’ motives blur lines. Rich Shapero’s novel, "The Hope We Seek", takes place in a remote, unnamed place more than a century in the... Read More

Alaska’s sense of place and an exploration of family and faith blend to reveal this intriguing narrator: a good man with his share of faults. With his strong debut novel, Dan Berne takes the story of a longstanding family feud and... Read More

Musician and author Wesley Stace brings rock and roll alive with exquisitely authentic details in this funny novel about a rock band for kids. Welcome to the rock-and-roll Romper Room, where juice boxes vastly outnumber Solo cups.... Read More

The motivations of angels Gabriel and Lucifer are intimately portrayed, exposing their character flaws—as well as flaws universal to humankind. The word “epic” gets thrown around a lot these days, but "War of Wings" by Tanner... Read More

Anoop Ahuja Judge shines at scene setting, in both India and the San Francisco Bay Area, with abundant, lush details. In "The Rummy Club", by Anoop Ahuja Judge, four high school friends from India reunite decades later in California,... Read More