FLS Book Reviews
Book reviews from The Free Lance-Star.
Suspense moves from Seattle to Texas
SUE BAKER THE FREE LANCE-STAR VIRGINIA native Mary Burton is one of my favorite suspense writers. Her latest book, “The Seventh Victim,” is a “nail biter” that you will not …more
February 23rd, 2013
One-two punch of nonfiction
BY NICHOLAS ADDISON THOMAS FOR THE FREE LANCE-STAR IF YOU’VE never been smacked in the face by literature, now’s your chance. George Rowe’s “Gods of Mischief” is a fist of …more
February 21st, 2013
One-two punch of nonfiction
BY NICHOLAS ADDISON THOMAS FOR THE FREE LANCE-STAR IF YOU’VE never been smacked in the face by literature, now’s your chance. George Rowe’s “Gods of Mischief” is a fist of …more
February 21st, 2013
Swan song rings clear
BY BEVERLY MEYER THE FREE LANCE-STAR THIS WRITER of stories that depict quintessential Irish personalities and situations has charmed readers for several decades with more than a dozen and a …more
February 21st, 2013
Murder strikes yet again
BY DIANE MAKOVSKY FOR THE FREE LANCE–STAR DEDICATED readers of best-selling author Mary Daheim will welcome this new addition to her enduringly popular Alpine “alphabet series.” “The Alpine Xanadu” is …more
February 14th, 2013
Bestseller lists
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Until the End of Time. Danielle Steel. Delacorte, $28. Weeks on List: 2. 2. Private Berlin. Patterson/Sullivan. Little, Brown, $27.99. Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3. …more
February 9th, 2013
Quirky, not gloomy
BY ELIZABETH RABIN / FOR THE FREE LANCE-STAR Here are stories about uncommon relationships. IN THE introduction to Ludmilla Petrushev-skaya’s collection “There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s …more
February 9th, 2013
Spill the beans, or not?
BY BEVERLY MEYER / THE FREE LANCE-STAR PARLAYING her personal experience as a reporter for Politico, Karin Tanabe has written a début novel, “The List,” a hilarious, fast-paced, thought-provoking exposé …more
February 9th, 2013
Hilarity in an ad agency
BY KURT RABIN THE FREE LANCE-STAR EVER NOTICE how every new true crime book, no matter how lurid the cover, inevitably gets compared to Capote’s “In Cold Blood”? And comic …more
February 9th, 2013
Romance in the Gilded Age
BY SUE BAKER / THE FREE LANCE-STAR JANET Evanovich and Dorien Kelly have teamed up again, this time for their first historical romance, reminding us what good storytellers they are. …more
