Crazy Sorrow

Crazy Sorrow

Crazy Sorrow: A Novel Vince Passaro Vince Passaro has released Crazy Sorrow (Simon and Schuster 448 pp. $27). Like in my last review, some books are so good they’re part of the joy of living. Even though the reader knows the characters are fictional, suspended...
More Better Deals

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...
The White Russian

The White Russian

Evie has just graduated from college in New York in 1937. Despite her many questions, no one in her family ever will talk about her mysterious grandmother who was apparently married to or the mistress of a Russian general who fled the Soviet Union after the White Army...
A Shadow Intelligence

A Shadow Intelligence

I just finished A Shadow Intelligence (HMH, $25.00) by Oliver Harris, though I must confess that I lost the plot thread halfway through and skimmed the remainder. It contains a multitude of characters using complex technology in a story told by MI6 agent, Elliot Kane....
The Red Lotus

The Red Lotus

Talk about timing! Chris Bohjalian’s The Red Lotus (Doubleday, $27.95) came out last month, a book centered on a plague imported from the far east, possibly infecting New York City and killing thousands. Undoubtedly sales have been strong as we sit at home....
A Small Town

A Small Town

A reviewer of my second Kristin Kerry novel, Justice is for the Deserving, wrote that “The idea of a nurse serial killer murdering babies in a hospital is preposterous”, so I couldn’t resist buying Thomas Perry’s A Small Town (The Mysterious Press, $26.00) after...