Blog & Reviews
Take a look through some of his reviews, and you may find a great book to add to your library!
Steve Clark is an author and lawyer in Oklahoma City specializing in medical malpractice. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an honor limited to the top 1% of attorneys. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America.
Guest List
Have you ever watched an old movie or a soap opera whereafter any dramatic element of dialog the background music ramps up a deep ta dum or similar effect? Multiple times? To the point it gets annoying? Well, that’s what Lucy Foley does in The Guest List (Morrow...
Every Vow
Peter Swanson’s Every Vow You Break (Morrow $28) has a great premise and has gotten nice reviews (NY Times). But it may be the worst book I’ve ever reviewed. A great writer can take a well-worn premise or an old story like A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (based on...
Shed No Tears
I was browsing my local independent bookstore (yay indies!) when I picked up Shed No Tears by Caz Frear (Harper, 26.99). Mystery always gets my attention, so I sprung for it. And British cop books are always cerebral. The detective is unlikely to shoot it out with the...
Troubled Blood
J.K. Rowling has released another mystery, Troubled Blood (Little Brown, $29.00), under her pen name, Robert Galbraith, starring two memorable characters, Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott. If you have not read any of the previous books, Strike is a private detective...
Twenty-two Minutes of Unconditional Love
Daphne Merkin has written a darling short novel Twenty-two Minutes of Unconditional Love (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $26.00). If you think the twenty-two minutes she is referring to is about sex, you have a dirty mind. Congratulations, you are right. Judith Stone is...
More Better Deals
Joe Lansdale in More Better Deals (Little Brown, $27.00) has written a take-off on James Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice. Beautiful woman married to a disgusting wife beater, meets a younger good-looking guy, Ed Edwards, falls in love. They plan to murder the...