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Bop Symphony

Richard J. Alley delivers life, hot and cool, in his debut novel, Five Night Stand

then, but the notes just seemed to make sense the way they fit together, like the way our family fit together or those men and women on the dance floor…Be…

An Insignificant Balcony

Perhaps history is anything that is found in the past and repeated in the future

they all say the same things. I escaped them. Put the history lesson on hold, suffered through airplane food and screaming children, to finally breathe in the land of the

Misogyny and Murder

Nashville mystery writer Steven Womack teams up with a screenwriter in his new thriller, Resurrection Bay

…on his blog. “His agent advised him to write a novelization of the script, sell the book, and thereby get the script back into play.” Given the subject matter, Resurrection…

Desperate Times, Desperate Measures

Andrew Gross’s latest thriller captures the moral dilemmas that arise during calamity

…hill. The half-million dollars she finds next to the dead driver could fix her troubles, and the temptation to take it proves too much to resist. But afterward, as she…

Highway to Hell

Sallie Bissell is back with another Mary Crow thriller in which death and disappearance are frequent travelers on an infamous North Carolina roadway

…as a kind of teaser for the next, urging the reader forward with each successive chapter. The treatment of Chase at the hands of his cruel stepfather is dark and…

The Epiphany of the Holy and the Absurd

J.M. Blaine writes about his life as a mental-health interventionist and unconventional Christian

…suicidal and prone to violence—as deserving of kindness and respect even as they find themselves mired in the fallout of tragic life circumstances, chemical imbalance, substance abuse, or their own…

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