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I Remember Nothing

I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron The conversation went something like this: Editor at Alfred A. Knopf:  We need a good book for the holidays. What’s Nora got? Junior Editor:  […]

Hunting Game

Hunting Game by Helene Tursten It’s moose hunting season in Sweden, and twenty-eight-year-old Embla Nyström, a Detective Inspector in the Västra Götaland County Bureau of Investigation’s mobile unit (VGM) is […]

How the Word is Passed

How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith They don’t host weddings at The Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana. The guides don’t discuss the architecture of the big house, dress […]

How Hard Can It Be?

How Hard Can It Be? By Allison Pearson One of my favorite novels of 2003 and maybe the entire decade was I Don’t Know How She Does It featuring working […]

Home by Nightfall

Home by Nightfall by Charles Finch With the impenetrable fog and stifling conventions, Victorian London is an irresistible setting for murder mysteries, and the Charles Lenox series by Charles Finch […]

The Illusionist

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler by Robert Hutton In December of 1940, Colonel Dudley Clarke arrived in Cario as ‘Personal Intelligence Officer (Special Duties)’ […]

Hide & Seek

Hide & Seek, the Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command by Stephen Walker You know I love a good WWII book! Hide & Seek, the Irish […]

Hero of the Empire

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard Do we really need another biography of Winston Churchill? Well, yes, […]

Hellhound on his Trail

Hellhound on his Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History by Hampton Sides   I stumbled across Hellhound on his Trail by accident. Random House sent me […]

Hell Gate

Hell Gate by Linda Fairstein (Book 12) Linda Fairstein’s latest crime novel featuring Alexander Cooper, head of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit in Manhattan, is an easy read. Despite the […]

Heartburn

Heartburn by Nora Ephron If you haven’t read Ephron’s hysterical first novel,  a thinly disguised account of her marriage and subsequent divorce from the Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein, I […]

Good Evening, Mrs. Craven

Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes I am always looking for a good Bedside Table Book (BTB), so I was pleased that my pretty box from […]

Gold

Gold by Chris Cleave Kate and Zoe have been competitors in the sport of track cycling  for years. At age thirty-two, the women train for their final Olympic Games. The […]

Girl Waits With Gun

Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart Inspired by true events,  Girl Waits With Gun is the first work of fiction from Amy Stewart, author of six nonfiction works including […]

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