March
March by Geraldine Brooks I was not especially eager to read my book club’s recent selection, March by Geraldine Brooks for two reasons. First, it is a Civil War novel. […]
Manhunt
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the State Box at the Ford Theater in Washington D.C, and […]
Major Pettigew’s Last Stand
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson I love an English village, or rather I love the English village as it is portrayed in certain novels. Whether such a place […]
Magpie Murders
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz Magpie Murders is a classic whodunit by the television screenwriter who created PBS favorites, Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. Susan Ryeland is an editor at […]
Loving Frank
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan In 1903, Mamah Borthwick Cheney and her husband commissioned their neighbor Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home for them in Oak Park, IL. By […]
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House by Meghan Daum Who can resist this title? Haven’t we all felt this way at one time or another? And […]
Killed at the Whim of a Hat
Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill In Killed at the Whim of a Hat, the first novel in the Jimm Juree series, Jimm and her kooky […]
Lethal White
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith BOOK 4 Lethal White is the fourth book in the Cormoran Strike/Robin Ellacott series by Robert Galbraith, a/k/a/ J.K. Rowling. Since Robin’s wedding to her […]
Lady in Waiting
Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Anne Glenconner had an idyllic childhood. In her memoir, Lady in Waiting, she describes growing up at Holkham, the 27,000-acre estate of her father, […]
Kingmaker
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell In her old age, she was the American ambassador to France and a confidant of Bill Clinton, […]