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, […]
Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Of all the famous gangsters of the 1920s, the men behind the murders […]
Just One Evil Act
Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George The aristocratic D.I. Thomas Linley and the slightly grubby Det. Sgt. Barbara Havers make an unusual but highly effective investigative team, but in […]
Just Mercy
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Before the feature film Just Mercy starring Michael B. Jordan, before the HBO documentary True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, before the TED talk […]
Junkyard Planet
Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter Do you know what happens to your old Christmas tree lights? They are shipped in a container to a scrap-metal processor in southern China […]
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery If you wondered why you studied Liberal Arts in college rather than something more practical like engineering or ceramics, the French novel […]