My mum and I lived in a cottage about half an hour outside town. So begins Gordon Reece’s first suspense novel, and new release, Mice. Shelley and her mum, Elizabeth, have retreated to Honeysuckle Cottage deep in the English countryside to escape from tragic circumstances, both physical and emotional.…
This week I decided to reread a couple older books along with my pop culture book pick of the moment, Neighborhood Watch by Cammie McGovern. This page-turner, a meditative glimpse of a suburban neighborhood beset by tragic circumstances, tries to dig beneath the surface of guilt and innocence and finally reveals how both can warp…
Zippy is out with the robin redbreasts as the cherry and pear trees bloom – I swear he’s looking at one right now 😉 Jo Nesbø’s The Redbreast So much reading and so little time, that’s what I’ve been told, and I’ve been reading a lot of old and new books. I stayed up late…
It’s time for another great summer read, but first here’s Zippy crossing his own bridge to Treasure Island. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton In the past two weeks I read six of John Sandford’s Prey novels, and travelled every step of the way into the dark corners with his main character, Lucas Davenport, from Hidden…
It’s raining again and there’s a lot of indoor working/revising/catching up…curl up with a good book like In the Woods by Tana French. Zippy watches over his new charges: Ajax The Gray & Eartha Kitt’n. Ajax The Gray & Eartha Kitt’n had very little outside life unless supervised before they turned six months old. They…
Hello and happy reading . . . here are the last five books that really got me moving, pushed me into overdrive, and inspired my creative flow. Ready to write, Muse? The last book Post and this round-up are linked by sunset photos from our trip down the Oregon Coast ‘-) 1: Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock…
The humor in Tom Rachman’s novel made me think of this sign I found when I visited a German pet store (with Zippy’s face added). Zippy’s barking translation: I can get to the door in 5 seconds…and you? The Imperfectionists is the best book I’ve read this past year. I love the language, the characters,…
Here is a short interlude from my new novel, The Shut-Ins. The novel is about the residents of a small mountain town in the Pacific Northwest and how a contagion begins to change and cut off the people from the outside world. This short chapter takes place after one of the main characters comes across a…