Allure of Deceit
Suspense novels about charity, religion, literacy and women fleeing control
Sunday, March 17
Game of chance
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee covers a Korean woman’s life from 1932 through 1989, how she endures poverty and class discrimination after the de...
Wednesday, March 6
A cure for many woes
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Longstanding friendships are the cure to many woes. Friends share confidences, memories and strategies. They listen, scheme and solve prob...
Sunday, March 3
Private space
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In The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor, Olivia Fitzgerald is a published author, but her second novel failed and her agent struggles to s...
Monday, February 19
Cheating
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The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry is set in Bahrain in 2011-12, with the Shiite-majority population energized by the Arab Spring, ...
Friday, February 9
Invisible
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Two women, an actress and a film director, make a pact to keep a secret about a brutal sexual assault from years earlier in Hollywood. Val...
Wednesday, January 24
Hunt for sinners
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Titus Crown, elected first black sheriff of the fictional Virginia county of Charon in All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby, has years of e...
Thursday, January 18
Collateral damage
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Despite or maybe because of his self-centered ways, an Irish poet attracts female fans in The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright. After the wif...
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