Author: elizabeth

Red Notice

Red Notice, A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder Bill Browder, a mild-mannered financier working in Russia, gets on the wrong […]

Racing the Light

Racing the Light an Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel by Robert Crais LA based private investigator Elvis Cole takes on a seemingly innocuous missing person case in the nineteenth […]

Dissolution

Dissolution by C.J. Sansom My cousin Harriet introduced me to the Matthew Shardlake Tudor mysteries.  If you liked Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy, you’ll enjoy these as well. Unlike many […]

My Life on the Road

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem just goes. Whenever asked and wherever to. She is the last of a breed that believes to make a difference […]

Midnight’s Furies

Midnight’s Furies, The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition by Nisid Hajari Midnight’s Furies is a grim account of the final year of the British Raj and the birth of an […]

People of the Book

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks Geraldine Books, the author of March and Year of Wonders, has written another inspired work of historical fiction. People of the Book is […]

Pentecost and Parker

Pentecost and Parker Mystery Series by Stephen Spotswood Not new, but new to me is the Pentecost and Parker mystery series by Stephen Spotswood. Set in the 1940s, Willowjean “Will” […]

Pachinko

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee I loved this sprawling saga about a Korean family living in Japan. If you are looking for an engrossing read, this is it. Living a […]

Overboard

Overboard by Sara Paretsky I promised that I wouldn’t read another novel featuring V.I. Warshawski, author Sara Paretsky’s  busybody, sanctimonious detective. But character flaws aside, Paretsky can move a plot […]

Our Souls at Night

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf Our Souls at Night has been on the book club and must-read circuit for a few years and recently was made into a […]