'Afterlife' is mind-bending thriller
Wednesday, 16 August 2017, 14:46
Last update: about 8 years ago
The line between life and death is a mere dimension that's easier to breach than previously thought in "Afterlife," Marcus Sakey's latest mind-bending thriller. FBI Agent Will Brody finds himself...
'Watch Me Disappear' is a suspenseful story
Saturday, 12 August 2017, 16:03
Last update: about 8 years ago
For some people, the idea of unconditional love is fraught with conditions, especially when a relationship has been built on lies and secrets as the superb "Watch Me Disappear" shows. Janelle...
'The Man of Legends' is an engaging novel
Friday, 11 August 2017, 16:02
Last update: about 8 years ago
Kenneth Johnson, who has worked on TV shows such as "The Six Million Dollar Man," ''The Incredible Hulk" and "V," adds to his repertoire with the engaging novel "The Man of Legends." A...
Jeff Abbott keeps readers on edge in 'Blame'
Thursday, 10 August 2017, 16:01
Last update: about 8 years ago
The girl who can't remember will be forced to seek answers she doesn't want to find in "Blame," Jeff Abbott's latest thriller. Two years earlier, a car crash killed her friend David and left Jane...
Hard to find a hero among 'People We Hate at the Wedding'
Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 16:00
Last update: about 8 years ago
"The People We Hate at the Wedding" could have been titled, "The People You Wish Eloped." There was an expectation in the first few chapters of Grant Ginder's tale about how a family long plagued by...
Fact outhits fiction in 'Pride of the Yankees' book
Tuesday, 8 August 2017, 15:59
Last update: about 8 years ago
The movie "The Pride of the Yankees" is the kind of Hollywood hokum that makes us feel good. And there's nothing wrong with that - as long as we know life is usually more complicated than a Gary...
Scholar traces origins of Midwest 'flyover country' derision
Friday, 4 August 2017, 15:30
Last update: about 8 years ago
The name of President Donald Trump appears only once in professor Jon Lauck's new book about perceptions of the Midwest as "flyover country," and then only in a footnote involving polling in...
Queen guitarist Brian May to release 3-D book about the band
Thursday, 3 August 2017, 15:29
Last update: about 8 years ago
May announced Wednesday that he will publish the coffee table book under his own imprint in August. It includes more than 300 photos and a 3-D viewer May designed. May is a lifelong enthusiast of...
'Dandy Lion' rejects young black male stereotypes
Wednesday, 2 August 2017, 15:28
Last update: about 8 years ago
Seven years ago, Shantrelle P. Lewis was consumed by the negative images of young, black men being depicted in media as aggressive and dangerous. Most looked nothing like the black men she knew:...
Atkins delivers engrossing thriller 'The Fallen'
Tuesday, 1 August 2017, 15:28
Last update: about 8 years ago
Ace Atkins' novels about Quinn Colson, a former Army Ranger turned sheriff, takes place in Mississippi's rural Tibbehah County, where the largest town is the small Jericho. But Edgar finalist Atkins...