Uncovering Sadie’s Secrets: A Bianca Balducci Mystery Libby Sternberg In this gem of a book, scholar and wit Kenneth Lasson takes on all manner of excesses in the Ivory Tower, which from his insider’s viewpoint, constitute little less than a full-scale assault on American values and mores. Lasson uses his sharply pointed pen to skewer… Continue reading Uncovering Sadie’s Secrets
Category: Humor
The Two-Plate Solution
The Two-Plate Solution A Novel of Culinary Mayhem in the Middle East Jeff Oliver A James Beard Award-winning chef stands atop a 50-foot-high diving platform having just plated a competition-winning culinary masterpiece. He looks down, faints from fear of heights, and careens into the water below. Worst of all? He knocks over his dish on… Continue reading The Two-Plate Solution
It Won’t Always be this Great
It Won’t Always be this Great Peter Mehlman In the crushing complacency of suburbia, mid-life crises pop in unannounced on men’s lives. For one Long Island podiatrist, it takes an impromptu act of vandalism just to make him aware of his own being. Walking home in the sub-zero wind chill of a Friday night, he… Continue reading It Won’t Always be this Great
Pinot Envy
Pinot Envy Murder, Mayhem, and Mystery in Napa Edward Finstein Meet Woody Robins, a bon vivant, devil-may-care wine guru who specializes in investigatory work involving rare artifacts of a vinous nature. Amidst the backdrop of world-famous Napa, California wine country, and upbeat, cosmopolitan “city by the bay” San Francisco, Woody finds he’s bitten off more… Continue reading Pinot Envy
The Understory
The Understory Elizabeth Leiknes Story Easton knows the first line of every book, but never the last. She never cries, but she fakes it beautifully. And at night, she escapes from the failure of her own life by breaking into the homes of others, and feeling, for a short while, like a different, better person.… Continue reading The Understory
Purple Jesus
Purple Jesus Ron Cooper Purvis Driggers is a South Carolina Low Country loser. With little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents’ house, home town, and whatever part-time work he can scrounge up, he’s sure he’s figured a way out: Rob an old man of the rumored millions hidden in… Continue reading Purple Jesus
As Dog is My Witness
As Dog is My Witness Jeffrey Cohen Another Aaron Tucker Mystery In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to “take meetings” on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking… Continue reading As Dog is My Witness
A Farewell to Legs
A Farewell to Legs Jeffrey Cohen An Aaron Tucker Mystery Work-at-home dad, devoted husband, hustling freelance writer, aspiring screenwriter—all ways to describe the unwilling sleuth Aaron Tucker, whom one reviewer dubbed a combination of “Bart Simpson and James Bond.” In A Farewell to Legs, the second installment of the Aaron Tucker Mystery Series, Aaron is… Continue reading A Farewell to Legs
The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns
The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns Elizabeth Leiknes Lucy Burns wants a normal life: friends, love, and a family of her own. And she could have it all if only she could break free from the job she hates. That job? Facilitator to hell. And her boss is a real devil. At the age of… Continue reading The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns
Hume’s Fork
Hume’s Fork: A Novel Ron Cooper Barely adequate philosophy professor Legare Hume has a mind-body problem. No matter how far he goes, no matter how hard he thinks, he can’t escape the world he lives in. On the run from his wife Tally, Legare joins brilliant but exceptionally awkward colleague Saul Grossman to attend the… Continue reading Hume’s Fork