Allure of Deceit
Suspense novels about charity, religion, literacy and women fleeing control
Tuesday, April 16
'Til death... and beyond
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Baumgartner by Paul Auster is about the final years an elderly philosophy professor and the poignant love story with his poet wife. S.T. Ba...
Friday, April 12
Reading
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Reading is a solitary activity that offers a sure guide to navigating society and our many relationships. In The Uncommon Reader by Ala...
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...
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