The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012), Rachel Joyce’s debut novel, is the deceptively simple tale of a sixty-something-year-old man who steps out of his Devon home to mail a letter but ends up walking to Berwick-on-Tweed...

Spitfire American novelist Lionel Shriver isn’t known for her subtlety or political correctness. Instead she cannily skewers the major issues that are at the forefront – or that have been relegated to the collective back of the...

Looking for books for summer reading? Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols is the perfect adrenaline-filled, sexy, fun summer book for your beach bag.

Ever Played With a Ouiji Board? The characters from this book probably should not have! The Diviners by Libba Bray is set in prohibition era New York City, where Evie O’Neil has been sent due to some scandal in her home t...

I’ve been having Lisbeth Salander withdrawals lately, so I went to the library determined to find something even a little bit as good as The Millenium Trilogy. Since, unfortunately, there is no “Swedish Crime”...

Under the Bright Lights by Daniel Woodrell is a Deep South crime noir with prose drunk on poetry. This book is part one of The Bayou Trilogy, and the author’s first published (1986) novel. Since its publication, Woodrell has go...