Gerald’s Game is a suspense/terror novel, written in 1992. It is set to coincide with a full solar eclipse in Maine in that year He wrote 2 books (Dolores Claiborne is the other) and the two books are connected … Continue reading →
This may be the most unusual novel you will read. Here are some descriptors that apply to the book: outrageous, courageous, imaginative, risky, complex, disturbing, multi-voiced, ambitious, chaotic, empathetic, passionate, collage-like, daring, powerful, strange, and tender. It is the historical … Continue reading →
The Women is a novel based on the memoirs of an army nurse during the Vietnam War. The author chooses a well-to-do naive young lady (Frankie) who wants to contribute and make her family proud. As a newly graduated nurse … Continue reading →
Tree of Hands is a psychological thriller about three people, each with their own stories, but there is a small connection between them that results in an unpredictable ending. The main story is about a child kidnapping, an act by … Continue reading →
The Silkworm is a British detective story in the Cormorant Strike series, written by Robert Galbraith which is the pen name for J.K. Rowling. The first book of the series was The Cuckoo is Calling where we are introduced … Continue reading →
The Children of Men by P.D. James is a dystopian novel set in recent times, in a world in which human fertility has failed and no more children have been born for 25 years. The spirit of the people has … Continue reading →
All the Pretty Horses is a novel set in southern Texas and Mexico in the 1950s. It is the story of John Grady, a 16 year old who has become disconnected from his ranch home and family. He was raised … Continue reading →
Billy Summers is a thriller-crime-noir story about a hit man who is asked to one final job, then he plans to retire. Billy is a sniper who will only shoot “bad men”, but this leads to many moral dilemmas since … Continue reading →
Age of Iron is a historical action-adventure novel set in the Britain before the arrival of the Romans. We are introduced to Dug Sealskinner, an aging mercenary who is battle-scarred, roaming and fleeing from the death of his family. He … Continue reading →
It is hard to fit Another Kind of Eden into a genre or to compare it to other novels. It best fits into other works by James Lee Burke. He has written over 40 novels, many of them Detective stories … Continue reading →
