Allure of Deceit
Suspense novels about charity, religion, literacy and women fleeing control
Monday, October 24
Abandoned
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The Foundling, set in 1927 at a state institution in Central Pennsylvania, is modeled after the real Laurelton State Village for Feeble-Mi...
Saturday, September 17
Echo Maker
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Mark Schulter is left with brain injuries after overturning his truck on an isolated road in rural Nebraska. His sister, Karin, gives up j...
Thursday, August 4
Lying for love
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Two sisters, once close, take off from New York City for a monthlong vacation to Sunshine Falls, NC, the setting for a book by one of thei...
Thursday, July 21
Costs of corruption
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Ghana ranks 73rd out of 180 nations on Transparency International’s Corruption Index – with 33 percent of people surveyed suggesting that...
Thursday, July 14
"What you could be..."
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr follows two children, one in Germany and the other in France, mostly between 1934 and 194...
Friday, June 24
Costs of abortion bans
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The US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, for now giving states the right to allow or ban abortions. Thirteen states have trigger laws ; ...
Wednesday, June 22
Ingredients for dystopia
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To Paradise, set in four time periods, reads as two distinct novels about a United States in decline, increasingly fragmented over social...
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