Allure of Deceit
Suspense novels about charity, religion, literacy and women fleeing control
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...
Sunday, January 7
Meaning
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Many will give up on Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel for its odd quality, a hodgepodge of observations and facts mostly ab...
Thursday, December 21
Secrets in an unhappy marriage
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What We Kept to Ourselves by Nancy Jooyoun Kim starts with a Korean American father discovering a body of a homeless black man in the yard ...
Monday, December 18
Free thought
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In The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman, Ivy Jacob grows up in Boston, beautiful and wild, spoiled yet neglected. An unintended pregnancy pr...
Monday, December 11
Hunt for a happy ending
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Hardy Reed, nicknamed Hardly, in Dark Ride by Lou Berney, is content to slacker. Stuck in a Midwest town, he gets high with friends and wat...
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