Author Delia Owens is a zoologist, as a reader will realize. "Where the Crawdads Sing" paints a picture of the outer banks of North Carolina--the marshlands w...

Texas author and Spur Award Winner Elizabeth Crook brings home another winner with her historical fiction in "The Which Way Tree." It's the funniest and most...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni--a mouthful of a name to remember for this Texan, but well worth the effort when searching for her many books. "Queen of Dreams" a...

I've buried my head in some wonderful books in the past year--The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski, Ho...

The central mystery of Iain Pears’ Stone’s Fall concerns how John Stone died. Was the rich and powerful ship-building magnate pushed from the window or was i...

Swedish author Frederick Backman was repeatedly rejected in his attempt to publish his novel, A Man Called Ove. One publisher told him his writing had “poten...

Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, saved from being shot after the Russian Revolution because a poem attributed to him expressed the People's views, is sentenced...

Nelson DeMille’s The Gold Coast, a bestseller from 1990, is a lasting classic. Author of crime series thrillers and a host of other works, DeMille adds in a ...