Allure of Deceit

Carolyn grows up fatherless and relatively poor in Ashland, a small community in rural New Hampshire, and title of the debut novel by Dan Si...

Similarities between the1920s' economy and today's are "remarkable," suggests journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin in 1929 – Insi...

  Foster by Claire Keegan is a compact book, sharp like a punch to the gut, about children's lack of control in this world and a summer ...

  Four people, strangers, are connected via serial pedophiles, or as the book jacket of The Elements by John Boyne suggests: an enabler, an...

  The plot of The Black Wolf by Louise Penny describes what was once unthinkable – invasion of Canada by the more powerful, more populated...

One person’s paradise is another person’s hell.  The setting of State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg is bleak – rainy, flood-prone Flori...

Individuals play multiple roles from day to day – child and parent, spouse and work colleague, friend and rival. Such exercises are more aud...