Fiction

Interview with Margaret Mizushima author of 'Burning Ridge' part of the Tinder Creek K-9 series of mysteries.

Interview with historical/mystery fiction author Marty Ambrose, writer of 'Claire's Last Secret'.

In '19 Myths About Cheating,' Randy Susan Myers takes a hammer to the usual reasons of why people stray.

'A Breath After Drowning' by Alice Blanchard is a suitably complex psychological thriller that proves an addictive late-night pager-turner.

I love finding out what’s going to happen next in the books I write. I’m often delighted by what a character decides to say , or how a seemingly innocuous detail later turns out to be a major plot point.

In 'The Dead,' Christian Kracht melts Pasolini, Kirosawa and Chaplin into a singular dream sequence

In 'Our Kind of Cruelty' by Araminta Hall, the truth about a stormy breakup, lies between murky blurred lines.

The monster is Stephen King's 'The Outsider' is worse than a creepy clown.

In Christine Mangan's 'Tangerine,' madness, murder, and betrayal are brought forth by an exotic yet ominous landscape.

The noted Serbian author muscles this Kafkaesque short novel into the war-is-absurd literary tradition in one tremendous 183-page paragraph.