The first thing I liked about Jack Gold and Marc Debbaudt’s Jurisdiction Denied is that it focuses on a topic that arouses much controversy. A sequel of Jurisdiction Terminated, it has been published after California has passed laws that make it difficult, almost impossible, to...

Set in 1937, Italy, Angelo Grimani is trying to find a way to keep his Reschen Valley reservoir in his own hands, but he is struggling. He needs the help of a local and the only person he knows who can help him is his...

Steve is an ordinary man, living a fulfilling life with his family and enjoying what he does. Although he is happy with his life, recently things have become a little difficult for him. He enjoys his work/personal life balance, but his boss is making things...

Pet Peeves: An Oral History by Diane Michaels begins on the set of a medical drama, Another Day to Live. Here we meet Kendra Lewis-Frost, breakdown writer and queen of amnesia plot lines. Austin Hughes is a comedian booked for a bit part on the...

I have just finished reading The Opium Lord’s Daughter by Robert Wang, which tells the story of the family of Lord Lee Shao Lin, his daughter Su-Mei and his number one son Lee da Ping during the time of the Opium Wars between Britain and...

From the moment I started reading Barbara Thompson’s No More Blood: Epilogue on the Life of Truman Capote & In Cold Blood, I realized this is one of those books confirming that good literature is still possible nowadays. Set in 1959 and in 1984, No...

The Midnight Midwife is the third book in the Seventeenth Century Midwives series by Annelisa Christensen. It is set in the 17th-century busy market town of St. Albans, where Abigale Harris works as a midwife, trying to make a living for her three adopted daughters...

The Seduction of Cameron MacKay: The Nightingales - Book 2 by Sheri Humphreys is the love story of surgeon Cameron MacKay and Elissa Lockwood, a nurse in Miss Nightingale's cadre. Cameron MacKay is a surgeon at Koulali Hospital and he has been with his regiment...

Split-Level: A Novel by Sande Boritz Berger is a bold, gripping, and well-written novel with unusual themes and sophisticated characters, following a genuinely flawed female protagonist with traits that many readers will identify with. Alex Pearl is a beautiful woman in her late thirties who...

After a short, explanatory prologue, Mark Scott Smith plunges straight into the action in his amazing historical novel, The Osprey and the Sea Wolf: The Battle of the Atlantic 1942. “Amazing” because he has shown the conflict from both the American and German sides, and...