With The Bone Tree, Greg Iles confronts a dark chapter in Mississippi’s past
How can a book be both timely and historic? If it delves into the countless unsolved murders of African Americans in the decades preceding the Civil Rights Act of 1964….
Feuding turns mystical and musical in Long Black Curl, the third volume in Alex Bledsoe’s Tufa series
In Long Black Curl, the latest installment in Alex Bledsoe’s Tufa series, Appalachian blood feuds recur through the generations like repetitions of an Irish reel. When Bo-Kate Wisby, an exiled…
The graphic trilogy March, Congressman John Lewis’s memoir of the American civil-rights movement, continues with a focus on Nashville’s Freedom Riders
…first installment of the trilogy. The cinematic style of Powell’s artwork dovetails with Aydin’s narrative pacing to create a work that resonates emotionally, with images lingering in the reader’s mind…
The third installment in John Pritchard’s series features a foul-mouthed deputy
When John Pritchard’s Junior Ray was published in 2005, Publisher’s Weekly called it a “hilariously tasteless debut novel.” The protagonist of this purported oral history is Junior Ray Loveblood, a…
Dewey Lambdin’s new naval adventure takes its swashbuckling hero to Gibraltar
…as well as intimate details of how a ship, the sailing master, and a chamber pot might smell. Novels like The King’s Marauder, Lambdin’s newest series installment, are the best…
Ann B. Ross contemplates the joys and challenges of a literary franchise that’s going strong after fifteen installments
Ann B. Ross, already beloved for her Miss Julia cozy mysteries, will surely keep fans happy with the fifteenth installment of the series, Miss Julia’s Marvelous Makeover. Readers have fallen…
