Called “tautly plotted, expertly characterized, and genuinely riveting” by Publishers Weekly, Christine Nolfi’s The Passing Storm, tells the story of Rae Langdon, a 30-ish woman who struggles to work through a grief she never anticipated. With her father, Connor, she…
Juliette Fay is the award-winning, bestselling author of no less than six novels. Her latest, Catch Us When We Fall, is a poignant story filled with humor, compassion, and forgiveness. When the story begins, we meet Cass Macklin, determined to…
Set against the grim backdrop of Western Pennsylvania’s steel mills and coal mines, Tammy Pasterick’s debut novel, Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash, is a riveting story of immigrant grit in early-20th-century America. The twisty narrative explores love, longing,…
I’m a fan of James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse books (and TV series). I’m also a fan of borrowing writing craft techniques whenever I see them in action. You don’t have to like or even know about this fantastic space…
Litani, the newest release from acclaimed crime novelist Jess Lourey, explores the darkness at the heart of the rural Midwest in a novel inspired by a chilling true crime. In the summer of 1984, fourteen-year-old Frankie Jubilee, the protagonist of…
Dread is an instrument. Its sound varies depending on how you play it. We’ve all heard it before, in the background of movies and TV series: there’s the high-pitched note that stretches on and on, the irregularly thudding heartbeat, the…