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Review: Dive Into Psychological Mystery on Peregrine Island

Tolstoy said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Diane B. Saxton, the debut author of Peregrine Island (She Writes Press, August 2, 2016), would probably agree. Her new novel dives into a memorably dysfunctional family, the Peregrines, living on the titular private island on Long Island…
Katie Hires
August 9, 2016
Fiction

Unwinding “The Labyrinth of the Spirits”

Stories have no beginning and no end, only doors through which we may enter them. Internationally acclaimed author Carlos Ruiz Zafón has presented us with many dark and dazzling doors in his Cemetery of Forgotten Books series. In the grand finale of this saga, The Labyrinth of the Spirits (Harper) Ruiz Zafón deftly…
Rebecca Proulx
September 20, 2018
Fiction

Ann Lineberger: Murder, Mysticism and Kinky Sex

In the comic murder mystery Sunday Best,  Ann Lineberger shows us that even in a small, seemingly innocuous town with wealthy residents, things aren’t always as normal and virtuous as they seem. This satire dives deep into investigating seemingly polished high-end lives, and exposing the hilariously flawed personas and obsessions…
K.L. Romo
January 14, 2019
Fiction

Lyndsay Faye on Mystery Writing and the Love of Sherlock Holmes

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content, including this article by Lyndsay Faye, talking about her release, The Whole Art of Detection and the love of Sherlock Holmes. Mystery author Lyndsay Faye has made it her business to know what other people don’t know about Sherlock Holmes.…
Bookish
May 24, 2017
Fiction

Brimming With Political Tension, “The Sun Collective” Is an Eerily Relevant Supernatural Thriller

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/booktrib_Baxter_TheSunCollective.jpg Like a skilled magician, Charles Baxter, author of The Soul Thief, messes with reality just enough to transport the reader into an ominous fog of "tomorrow-plus-today” — Baxter’s shorthand for interwoven timelines. In his supernatural thriller, The Sun Collective (Pantheon), a cultist new age movement has taken root in…
Karina Holosko, M.A. English Lit
November 17, 2020
Fiction

9 Books for Fans of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’

The latest adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express has finally hit theaters. Actor Kenneth Branagh stars as the iconic French sleuth Hercule Poirot, whose train journey is derailed by the murder of a notorious passenger. As one might expect from an adaptation of the Queen of Crime's…
Early Bird Books
November 14, 2017
Fiction

Ridin’ with Biden in “Hope Rides Again”

Andrew Shaffer’s highly innovative and hilarious Hope Never Dies burst onto the literary scene last summer as a high-action mystery putting Joe Biden and Barack Obama in the role of amateur detectives. It provided a perfect escape from the state of affairs in politics. Now, Shaffer is at it again,…
BookTrib
July 8, 2019