Small Town & Rural Fiction

Whisk Yourself Away to Scenic Scottish Village in Beguiling Crime Novel

Poor Hamish MacBeth. In “Death of a Spy” (Grand Central), the 39th Hamish MacBeth murder mystery from MC Beaton and RW Green, his neighbors still view him as an outsider in his patch in the Scottish Highlands, Lochdubh. His community views him as a lazy copper, and he craves to…

Jodé MillmanFebruary 12, 2024

Podcasts Thrillers

Writers, Ink Podcast: Richard Chizmar Explains the Art of Telling a Fiction Tale as “True Crime”

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…

Writers, InkOctober 16, 2023

Fiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Karaoke Showdown & Tourist Meltdowns: The Wild Side of Being Human

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either…

BookTribSeptember 13, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

S.A. Cosby’s Southern Gothic Serial Killer Novel is a Love Letter to His Hometown

“It’s surreal in many ways,” says Shawn “S.A.” Cosby. “A few years ago, literally, nobody knew my name.” If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, perhaps you missed Cosby’s meteoric rise to the top of bestsellerdom and his raw, rural, and racially rooted depictions of…

Rick PullenJune 20, 2023

Fiction Fiction - Featured

A Poignant Tale of Pursuing Romance in the Face of Loss and Long-Kept Secrets

When We Let Go (Lake Union Publishing) is a love story for grown-ups, with all the life-stuff grown-ups must deal with — from first loves, shattered hopes and losses to family dynamics and teenaged angst. Rochelle Weinstein is good at telling stories like this. This is her sixth such novel,…

Sherri DaleyAugust 3, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Jealousy and Revenge Are Motives for Murder in New Hamish Macbeth Mystery

"Veteran storyteller Beaton may be gone, but her beloved Highlands policeman lives on." —Kirkus Reviews —∞— In M.C. Beaton’s Death of a Green-Eyed Monster (Grand Central), Scottish Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth does not have a jealous bone in his tall, muscular, fiery redheaded body. In his thirty-sixth adventure in the…

Jodé MillmanFebruary 23, 2022

Fiction

Serge Joncour Investigates Humanity’s Capacity to Tame Nature in “Wild Dog”

So begins Serge Joncour’s riveting novel, Wild Dog (Gallic Books), translated from the French by Jane Aitken and Polly Mackintosh, and winner of the Landerneau Prize and a French award for environmental fiction. Its narratives alternate between one week in August 2017, and a full year at the outbreak of…

Gisèle LewisMay 10, 2021

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Snapshot of American Life is a Literary Triumph of Imaginative Force

I found this wonderful quote from historian and writer Terrence Des Pres on the website of author John Irving: “Superior fiction asks three things of the novelist: vigorous feeling for life as we live it. Then imaginative force, strong enough to subvert and rebuild unhindered. And then--but this is rare…

Jim AlkonOctober 11, 2022

Fiction Romance Romance - Featured

Rival Weddings on Remote Scottish Island

Plans for a small and simple ceremony get complicated in An Island Wedding (Avon), the fifth book in prolific bestselling wordsmith Jenny Colgan’s Mure Island series. Give yourself permission to relax and enjoy it as a standalone novel even if you missed the previous four! The author provides a reassuring…

Linda HitchcockJune 23, 2022

Author Spotlight Fiction

Sail Away to Extraordinary Adventure on a “Raft of Stars”

Huck Finn meets This Tender Land in this beautiful riverfront coming-of-age adventure. Andrew J. Graff’s Raft of Stars (Ecco) was written with vivid descriptions of nature, imperfect and realistic characters and deep thought. From the stars in the sky to the black bears and the white water of the river,…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 10, 2021

Small Town & Rural Fiction

Writers, Ink Podcast: Richard Chizmar Explains the Art of Telling a Fiction Tale as “True Crime”

Books & Looks Podcast: Karaoke Showdown & Tourist Meltdowns: The Wild Side of Being Human

A Poignant Tale of Pursuing Romance in the Face of Loss and Long-Kept Secrets

Jealousy and Revenge Are Motives for Murder in New Hamish Macbeth Mystery

Serge Joncour Investigates Humanity’s Capacity to Tame Nature in “Wild Dog”

Snapshot of American Life is a Literary Triumph of Imaginative Force

Rival Weddings on Remote Scottish Island

Sail Away to Extraordinary Adventure on a “Raft of Stars”

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