The Woman in the Third Floor Front by Richard Scharine is a collection of prose pieces beginning with a series of short stories and followed by musings about his European ancestors. The author traces his life from a midwestern boyhood, through his career as a...

Therein Lies the Pearl by Catherine Hughes is one of those historical novels that I devour with great pleasure. Set in Normandy and England in the eleventh century, in the years leading up to the Norman Conquest in 1066, it focuses not so much on...

After inheriting Thornberry Manor, thirty-two-year-old Paisley Venne and her mother, Molly, had been busy transforming the property into a vacation retreat. However, this had set Paisley on a path of mystery and secrets. After putting on an emerald necklace she found at the manor, she...

When Lieutenant Colonel William W. Harris, a World War II veteran, is assigned to the 65th Infantry Regiment in Puerto Rico in 1949 as commander, he sees it as a demotion and the end of his promising military career. Composed almost entirely of Puerto Rican...

The Last Saboteur by Martin Roy Hill is a World War II spy thriller that offers readers a daring Nazi plot to sabotage the Manhattan Project by assassinating its director, J. Robert Oppenheimer. The story follows Carrick, an Irishman turned German spy, who infiltrates the...

“This was the pattern—hope, creation, corruption, destruction. Always the same ending.” Painful failure and seven frightful creatures torment an aged Creator in The Lord's Canvas by Stephen Wayne. The story unfolds in an endless void, where nothing exists save a canvas of creation waiting to...

This story begins before the outbreak of World War II and ends over two decades later. Nineteen-year-old Eleanor is groomed by her art professor in Florence while studying, thus the title The Florentine Entanglement by Pamela Norsworthy. She hides out for the duration of the...

J. Timothy Damiani’s The Dementia Diaries examines the complexities of love and loss through the eyes of a psychiatrist grappling with early-onset dementia. The story follows Dr. Will Newman as he moves from a prestigious academic career to a role at F.R.E.S.H., a state mental...

Paolo G. Grossi’s The Kaminsky Symphony is a riveting and compelling novel that begins in 1913, in Italy, and continues through the political upheavals in Russia in 1917, and briefly through WWI. The principal character is Maestro Carlo Alberto Mandelli, Count of Castagnino, Milan. In...

“Devils, gods, angels, demons. Who can see which is which?” That and many other questions are answered in The Witchfinder's Daughter, a novel by Adam Caisse. Armed with a copy of the Malleus Maleficarum and a dagger, a man named Hannes is summoned to the...