Anne Eliot Feldman

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

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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

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Humble Farmer Aims to Abolish Slavery in Uplifting Historical Fiction

An Irish potato farmer flees the famine for Jamaica where he strives to abolish slavery The Irish Connection, latest historical fiction by award-winning novelist Norma Jennings, brings together two historic events of the mid-1800s—Ireland’s potato famine and Jamaica’s convoluted and brutal fight to abolish slavery—with a highly sympathetic protagonist, visceral…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 15, 2023

Fiction Recommended Romance

Lifelong Enemies Turn Lovers While Party Planning in Feel-Good Rom-Com

Can opposites really attract? Meredith Schorr’s new enemies-to-lovers rom-com novel, Someone Just Like You (Forever), presents Molly Blum and Jude Stark, two emotionally authentic and strong-willed characters so fixated on tormenting each other that love seems a most unlikely outcome. Enemies ever since a playground recess in first grade where…

Anne Eliot FeldmanAugust 10, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Touch of Modernity in Absorbing Whodunit Set in Vibrant Ancient Egypt

Who would want to murder a florist? Especially the florist in charge of floral offerings to Amen-Ra, supreme deity of all Egypt? Award-winning author N.L. Holmes launches her latest fantasy novel Flowers of Evil (Wayback Press) with this question, devising twists and turns that make us suspect just about every…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJuly 31, 2023

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Brave the Southwestern Deserts Alongside a Tough-As-Nails Gunrunner

J. A. Greene’s vivid debut novel Guns for Sonora paints late-19th-century life in the southwestern United States with a visceral sensibility that brings the era to life. The novel spans two years, from 1887 to 1889, and takes place in what was then the U.S. territory of Arizona and the…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJuly 27, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Exploration of People, Place and Identity in LGBTQ+ Coming of Age Novel

Jeffrey Dale Lofton’s stunning debut novel Red Clay Suzie (Post Hill Press) is a coming-of-age story about a gay, physically-misshapen young man growing up in the rural and segregated Georgia of the 1960s. A work of fiction inspired by his own childhood and set in his hometown of Warm Springs,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJune 14, 2023

Fiction Recommended

One American Family’s Global Experience of Life and Fulfillment in the 20th Century

George John Black’s new novel Crystal Lake (BookBaby) offers the rich story of one American family as it spans the twentieth century, told from the standpoint of a dynamic father-son relationship that unfolds over decades. Told in three chronological parts, Crystal Lake takes us from Normandy to Africa, from Honduras…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 18, 2023

Fiction Recommended Romance

Thrilling Love Story Set Against Global, Multicultural Backdrop

Morenike McFaal’s debut novel Salou is a gem of a romantic thriller, global in its reach, fast-paced in its telling and all the while satisfying in its offering of characters who jump off the page with authenticity and purpose. Doctor Salou Kassai is two years out of Paris School of…

Anne Eliot FeldmanApril 13, 2023

Fiction Recommended Romance

Intertwined Love Stories Meet Unconventional Decisions in the Face of Illness

Jeannine Lokey’s debut novel My Name’s Not Jenny: An Unconventional Journey is an unconventional book. Based on a true story, the novel reads like a memoir as it documents the untimely and prolonged health crisis of Anna Scott, diagnosed with cancer in her forties. Her devoted banker husband, Joseph, and…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMarch 23, 2023