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The action never lets up in 'The Dread Line'

Friday, 23 September 2016, 15:50 Last update: about 11 years ago

Liam Mulligan is juggling several intense cases in "The Dread Line" by Edgar Award-winning author Bruce DeSilva. A baffling heist of valuables from a safety deposit box has left few witnesses, and no...

'The One Man' is heartfelt and compelling

Thursday, 22 September 2016, 15:49 Last update: about 11 years ago

Andrew Gross, known for his contemporary thrillers, takes the reader back to World War II and the brutality that Jews faced in the concentration camps in his novel, "The One Man." The dilemma...

'The White Mirror' by Elsa Hart is compelling novel

Wednesday, 21 September 2016, 15:48 Last update: about 11 years ago

Warring nations, divisive politics, a fear of foreigners and a distrust of what seems to be an unusual religion were challenges facing China during the 1700s as Elsa Hart shows in her compelling...

Winfrey picks Whitehead novel for book club

Monday, 19 September 2016, 15:48 Last update: about 11 years ago

Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick, Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," a historical novel that imagines the network of safe houses and passages that helped slaves escape to free...

Spy novelist le Carre relates stories from his life

Monday, 19 September 2016, 15:46 Last update: about 11 years ago

Of stories to dine out on, David Cornwell has an abundance. Or should we say John le Carre has? Cornwell's pen name overshadows the title on the cover of this, his first memoir, "The Pigeon Tunnel."...

'One of These Things First' is insightful memoir

Sunday, 18 September 2016, 12:32 Last update: about 11 years ago

In 1962, when he turned 15, Steven Gaines slashed his wrists on a glass window in the back of his grandparents' undergarments store in Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood. The act seemed to be the...

Old crime haunts anew in Ron Rash novel

Saturday, 17 September 2016, 12:31 Last update: about 11 years ago

When the scarred remains of a 17-year-old girl are found in the waters of a secluded North Carolina mountain creek, law officers reopen a probe of her long-unexplained disappearance. It has been...

Brutal plot of 'Red Dog' not for the faint of heart

Thursday, 15 September 2016, 12:30 Last update: about 11 years ago

The "Little Egypt" region of southern Illinois is among the state's most diverse - with rich farmland near fallow soil, abandoned coal mines and beautiful parks, economically depressed rural areas...

Love is complicated in 'Ugly and Wonderful Things'

Wednesday, 14 September 2016, 12:30 Last update: about 11 years ago

Wavy's dad cooks meth in the trailers down the road from their house. Her mother stays home and alternates between swallowing pills, sleeping and threatening her daughter to keep her mouth closed,...

Brutal plot of 'Red Dog' not for the faint of heart

Wednesday, 14 September 2016, 12:28 Last update: about 11 years ago

The "Little Egypt" region of southern Illinois is among the state's most diverse - with rich farmland near fallow soil, abandoned coal mines and beautiful parks, economically depressed rural areas...

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