Anne Eliot Feldman

Thrilling Novella Unravels Conspiracy Behind Art Forgery and Sudden Disappearance

The Eden Evacuation is screenwriter Jarek Tomszak’s fast-paced debut novella. A savvy young Chicago-based historian takes his edgy artist girlfriend on a life-changing holiday to Rome to view the Vatican’s extensive art collection. When she goes missing and both the Italian authorities and the U.S. embassy stonewall attempts to find…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 16, 2024

Nonfiction

Ta-Nehisi Coates Tackles Race, Oppression and Global Issues in “The Message”

The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ fifth book, has arrived and its gorgeously crafted writings are incisive and provocative. In intertwined essays about his recent trips to three places — Senegal, South Carolina and Palestine — the award-winning author unravels the vital relationship between stories and our view of the world past…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 4, 2024

Romance

A Journey of Belonging in Nicholas Sparks’ Latest Novel — Soon to Be Adapted for Screen

Counting Miracles is Nicholas Sparks’ latest novel — his 25th — and it is a wonderfully heart-warming read that will be heading for the big screen in an adaptation by Amazon. The New York Times bestselling author has set the story in Asheboro, North Carolina, crafting an uplifting tale of…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 25, 2024

Fiction

“The Midnight Library” Author’s Restorative Tale of Otherworldly Encounter in Ibiza

The Life Impossible, newest novel by New York Times best-selling author Matt Haig, is a thought-provoking read and compelling page-turner. When a grieving widow in England inherits a house in Ibiza from a friend she barely knew, her curiosity about her friend’s last wishes draws her to the island and…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 9, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Epic Adventure Novel Imagines Life Before “The Great Gatsby”

Gatsby’s Rival by Richard Guimond is an epic adventure story that rivets the reader from page one, with a high-stakes plot and an ensemble cast of characters as iconic as the great Gatsby himself. Set in the 1920s as a prequel to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal 1925 work The Great…

Anne Eliot FeldmanAugust 2, 2024

Recommended

A Gripping Tale of Survival and Sacrifice

The Wild Road Home by Melissa Payne is a stunning tale of love and endurance, of a young woman and an older man helping each other to craft hope and meaning out of what seems to be little more than shattered dreams. A Staged Death for Love Sixty-seven-year-old Mack Anders…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJune 18, 2024

Guilty of Stealing His Heart by Nancy Lynn White

Fiction Recommended Romance

Woman on the Run Finds New Love and Family in Western Romance

Nancy Lynn White’s debut novel Guilty of Stealing His Heart: Never Say You Love Me combines historical fiction, murder mystery, western romance and inspirational genres into one well-blended page-turner of a story. Set in America’s mid-West just before the Civil War, the novel offers a nicely gritty sense of how…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 22, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Lyrical Tale of Love and Redemption Paints Portrait of Pacific Northwest

Leaning On Air is Cheryl Grey Bostrom’s second novel, an exquisitely nuanced love story told with gorgeous prose and salt-of-the-earth characters as well-meaning and reassuringly imperfect as the people you know. Equally gorgeous is the story’s setting on a remote family farm in the Palouse, a gently hilled region of…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 7, 2024

Recommended

Veteran Author’s New Novel is Marriage of Mystery and Love Story

Philip Ciofarri’s newest novel Night and Its Longings unpacks a vivid love affair within the intriguing mystery of a wife who goes missing and whose long-ago lover is tapped by her desperate husband to help find her. A fast-paced plot, juxtaposed with the long-ago lover’s emotional search for answers beyond…

Anne Eliot FeldmanApril 1, 2024

Recommended Thrillers

A Financial Heist Along Australia’s ‘Golden Coastline’ Spells Trouble in New Techno-Thriller

Susan Rogers and John Roosen’s new novel Cobra Pose, second in their Yoga Mat Mystery series, is a fast-paced and skillfully plotted thriller involving the same protagonists as in their debut novel Dead Man’s Pose — yoga studio owner Elaina Williams and Ric Peters, her sleuthing partner and love interest…

Anne Eliot FeldmanFebruary 16, 2024

Fiction Recommended

A Pop-Punk Band, a Missing Person Case & an Ode to the Best — And Worst — Of Charlottesville

Liz Larson's debut novel Fireflies and Zeroes (Brandylane Publishers, Inc.) offers a carefully crafted story of suspense as Max, the leader and songwriter of a three-person pop-punk band goes missing, on the eve of their reunion tour in Charlottesville, Virginia and just six months after the explosive racial violence of…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJanuary 18, 2024

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

One Man’s Killer Grip on Small-Town in Psychological Thriller

The Killer’s Kid (Woodhall Press) is Adelene Ellenberg’s newest thriller and from page one it immerses the reader into the carefully cultivated power of one evil man and a small town’s efforts to make him accountable. The story’s tidy first sentence — “Clarisse Quinn was tucked neatly into her satin-lined…

Anne Eliot FeldmanNovember 20, 2023

Audiobooks Recommended Thrillers

Murder Strikes at Yoga Class in Cozy Australian Mystery on Audio

The title of Susan Rogers and John Roosen’s exciting new novel and audiobook, Dead Man’s Pose, refers to what is known in the yoga world as Shavasana. It is a pose meant to relieve tension, not to kill you. Hence as the novel opens, Yoga Boronia studio owner and instructor…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 18, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Two Writers, and a Clydesdale, Connect in the Heart of Appalachian Mountains

Lucas Alves’s debut novel Signatures shines with depth of feeling, gorgeous writing and an allure of timelessness. Boiled down to its essence, this is the story of an old writer and a young writer — both wrestling their demons as they enter each other’s lives — and a magical eighteen-hands-high…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 13, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Heartfelt & Enchanting Love Story Enriched by Historic Puerto Rican Backdrop

Margarita Barresi’s debut novel A Delicate Marriage (Atmosphere Press) weaves a romantic story of an idealistic coming-of-age couple building a new marriage on their home island of Puerto Rico. Within the 1935-1952 timeframe for the story, Puerto Rico is ripe for its own coming of age, with economic and public…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 10, 2023

Recommended

Experience the Life of the Elite in New Mystery

Posh: Book One of the Templeton Family Chronicles is a juicy debut novel about a long-standing English dynasty newly steeped in searing personal crises as it prepares to host the social event of the year. It’s Steeplechase Weekend at Templeton Manor in Dorset, UK, but not like it’s ever been.…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 10, 2023