Book Reviews

When a book is described as a mix between Groundhog Day and Quantum Leap I feel the impulse to pick it up. With The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, I am very happy to have made that decision. The book opens a bit slowly. A man is in the woods lost and unsure who he […]

The Earth is a dead planet with the human population living in massive star ships. Humanity is hoping to find a new home. Then smuggler Jonah Mctier makes an amazing discovery.  Plains of Exodus revolves around the hero Jonah discovering an unmapped planet. His discovery also includes a wormhole to a new galaxy. His discovery […]

Gabriel Farago new book, Professor K: The Final Quest,  is an ensemble cast type of story. What starts as multiple disconnected storylines interweaves into an overarching global conspiracy.  The story starts in the Ottoman Empire with the Sultan (king) on his deathbed. One of the Sultan’s nineteen sons makes a desperate escape from the castle. His […]

Edwin Burrows, CPA has become one of my favorite amateur sleuths in crime fiction.  Edwin’s Equity is the fifth in the series that keeps getting better with each new story.  If you have not read some of the other Edwin Burrows books, please check out my review of the first in the series, Alibi Aficionado. […]

Jack Reacher is back in the new Lee Child book Past Tense. In this story, Jack is about to start a cross-country hitchhiking trip when he bumps into a small town. A town that he as only heard of but never saw before. It is the town that Reacher’s dad called home. As with any […]