SAFEKEEPING by Jessamyn Hope Reviewed

by | Feb 1, 2016 | Reviews

Safekeeping Jessamyn Hope June 9th, 2015 Fig Tree Books   Safekeeping is a novel about personal tragedy, hope, and suffering within the backdrop of history.  A medieval brooch is the connection of time and history.  Although it flashbacks to Jewish history from the...

Film Review: ANOMALISA

by | Jan 29, 2016 | Films

Directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson Written by Charlie Kaufman Featuring the voices of Tom Noonan, Jennifer Jason Leigh and David Thewlis Anomalisa, Kaufman’s stop-motion animation feature is set in a number of numbing settings (taxi, airport, hotel,...

Alafair Burke: THE EX Interview

by | Jan 28, 2016 | Author Interviews, Features

The plot of THE EX has one of New York City’s best criminal defense lawyers, Olivia Randall, representing her ex- fiancé, Jack Harris. He has been arrested for a triple homicide that includes a victim connected to his wife’s murder three years earlier....

Q&A with Benjamin Black

by | Jan 27, 2016 | Books

EVEN THE DEAD is the seventh novel in Benjamin Black’s Quirke series, which features a pathologist in 1950s Dublin. Black is also the author of the Philip Marlowe novel THE BLACK-EYED BLONDE. Benjamin Black is the pen name of John Banville, who is the author of...

WHERE IT HURTS by Reed Coleman Reviewed

by | Jan 25, 2016 | Reviews

WHERE IT HURTS Reed Coleman G.P. Putnam Jan. 26th, 2016 Where It Hurts is the first book of a new series written by Reed Coleman, the contracted writer of the Robert B. Parker’s Jesse Stone books. He introduces the character, Gus Murphy, who becomes a grieving father...