Allure of Deceit

  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...

A bright, talented, loving child lives grows up with a paranoid father who falls for conspiracy theories about politics, The parents neglect...

We manipulate our memories and they also manipulate our behavior far into the future. Things Don’t Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collin...

  In This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead, Jane Sharp, a senior in college, is at a loss after her middle-aged father stops taking his...

  The God of the Woods by Liz Moore tells the story of a camp named Self-Reliance in the Adirondacks, owned by a family that is anything bu...

  Two elegantly simply plotlines intertwine in Tilt by Emma Pattee: The first is a day in Portland, Oregon, when the Cascadia earthquake st...

Some people deny the horrors of genocide, hoping to protect the reputation of their country or community. Some listen but quickly set the pa...

  A society that treats innocents as wrongdoers unleash more criminal behavior.  Don’t let the title of Laura Lippman’s latest book,  Prom M...

While treating patient complaints about pain, doctors typically inquire about the type, sharp or dull, and the intensity on a scale from one...

  The novel Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford captures a child’s perspective in this brief novel with minimal details, minimal plot, minima...

Wealth can make one careless. Too much pushes other priorities aside and weakens those who eventually must encounter life’s realities. And b...

Ordinary, everyday relationships offer more intrigue than a murder case in Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout. In small Crosby, Maine, ...

At the start of the COVID pandemic, in the midst of lockdown, a family is devastated after the loss of an infant daughter in  The Burrow by...

Real Americans  by Rachel Khong is a family saga – an odd mixture of fantasy, suspense and speculative fiction that toys with genre and sens...

  Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke is set in the fall of 1863. Much of Louisiana is occupied by the Union Army. The Civil War rages, an...

  Wolf at the Table, t he family saga by Adam Rapp spans 1951 to 2010. A withdrawn, hardworking  veteran of World War II and a devout Catho...

Animals exhibit strong character and distinctive points of view for those who are most perceptive. Pets narrate two recent books, Buster   b...

  The words "automated" and "autonomy," though related, have wildly contrasting meanings. Automation is work performed b...