Published Reviews

Tor.com reviews The Brahms Deception by Louise Marley The Brahms Deception is the follow-up to Louise Marley’s Mozart’s Blood. (I wrote about this novel here, and the new book has a few glancing references to its... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews The Brahms Deception by Louise Marley “Marley’s second excursion into musical history (after 2010′s Mozart’s Blood) plays what-if with the relationship between Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 14... Read More »
BC Bookworld reviews The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds by Grant Hayter-Menzies In life, one of Sarah’s goals was to understand China and its people, and she succeeds. In "The Empress and Mrs. Conger", Hayter-Menzies succeeds at understanding... Read More »	NewBookReviews reviews THE TEACHER by Robert Banfelder Robert Banfelder's newest psychological thriller,THE TEACHER, involves a diabolical and cunning serial killer. Clarence Emery is described as the most prolific... Read More »
Out in Print reviews "Keeping the Faith" (in the anthology MEN OF THE MEAN STREETS). by 'Nathan Burgoine Take the powerhouse trio that opens this collection as an example: ‘Nathan Burgoine’s “Keeping the Faith” is an incredibly successful foray into hard-boiled... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Footsteps on the Shore by Pauline Rowson Horton presses on to clear up a skein of crime as tangled as one of the harbor’s ancient fishing nets. Rowson’s latest should please both Andy Horton fans and... Read More »
AV Club - The Onion reviews Lola,California by Edie Meidav A decades-old murder in New Age-inflected Berkeley forces a reunion between two high-school best friends in Edie Meidav’s textured, disquieting third novel. Lola,... Read More »	Barnes and Noble reviews Lola,California by Edie Meidav Edie Meidav's poignant novel is rooted in the story of Lana and Rose, whose sibling-like friendship in 1980s Berkeley is sundered by time -- and by a terrible... Read More »
Proceso Magazine (Mexico) reviews Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars by Sylvia M Longmire El contagio de la narcoviolencia de México en Estados Unidos es una realidad. No sólo eso: los narcotraficantes del país vecino comienzan a adueñarse de la... Read More »	The Daily Beast reviews Lola,California by Edie Meidav ‘Lola, California’ By Edie Meidav. 448 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $28. Edie Meidav's Lola, California is titled after the name two girls, Lana and Rose,... Read More »

Gumshoe Review reviews Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) by Kelli Stanley Stanley has given us a rich tapestry of a world with depth of color and detail that makes the Londinium of 83 A.D. come alive. Each character has a backstory that... Read More »	"Shelf Life", Minnesota Parent (February 2009) reviews Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter by Robert C. Rummel-Hudson "Somewhere in the process of advocating for his daughter’s undaunted spirit, Robert comes to believe in himself as a father. Schuyler’s Monster paints a haunting... Read More »
The Rumpus: Books: http://therumpus.net/2010/01/stirring-coffee-with-a-feather/ reviews "Beautiful Soon Enough" by Margo Berdeshevsky "Margo Berdeshevsky’s work straddles the line between fiction and poetry. Her characters grieve, dream, punish themselves, and try to find harmony between who they... Read More »	amazon.com reviews Time Will Tell by Yemi Elegunde Read the book and was really moved by the story. I could not put it down once I started. Like life it isn't always full of sunshine but this story is about an... Read More »
Book jacket copy reviews The Witch From The Sea by Lisa Jensen "The Witch From The Sea is that rare creation, an historical romance with guts as well as glamour. Wild-spirited Tory is an irresistible character." Read More »	Valparaiso Poetry Review reviews What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward Every taste the tongue seeks and savors — salt, sour, bitter, sweet — even umami, the fifth taste, itself the savory — is summoned forth for us in Diane Lockward’s... Read More »
Bust Magazine reviews The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot S. Mifflin The Blue Tattoo is well-researched history that reads like unbelievable fiction, telling the story of Olive Oatman, the first tattooed American white woman. Margot... Read More »	Grasping for the Wind reviews THE UNIT by Terry DeHart This is an apocalyptic story to stand alongside such greats as Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, or the Wastelands anthology edited by John... Read More »
Front page of book reviews Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq by Michael Anthony "Soldiers are witnesses to chaos and carnage, and there is a false belief that they should recover from what they have seen and done, and have had done to them. A... Read More »	Silver & Grace reviews Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey by Diana Raab Read More »