I liked it but I didn't love it. I enjoyed his book Handling Sin a lot more. It took me forever to read because it just was so long winded. The narration just went on random tangents making the book probably twice as long as it needed to be. There were also so many unnecessary, repetitive descri...
It was "ok" because it could have been better. I liked the large cast of characters with their background stories; the mystery plot with non-stop action kept me going. I needed to read the ending.The main reason I did not like this long book: it inched along, and took three steps backward filling...
Things have changed in Hillston, North Carolina. A young black man is on Death Row and the Klan is again rearing its head, while a dirty tricks campaign is mounting against the womanizing candidate for state governor - who also happens to be the husband of Hillston chief of police's true love.
A surprising and delightful read. It goes down like an old fashioned, satirical adventure novel such as “Don Quixote” crossed with an absurd cross-country road trip as in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World” or a comedy starring Peter Sellars.The set-up is nicely done in the preface and first chapter:T...
'The Last Noel' captures the exuberance and poignancy of a lasting friendship between a man and a woman from very different backgrounds. Noni Tilden and Kaye King grow up and grow close as their lives come dramatically together through four decades of tumultuous change in a small southern town.
The cover of Uncivil Seasons by Michael Malone caught my interest in a display at my library. It is the first book in a “much more than a mystery” series featuring two police officers named Justin and Cuddy. I was impressed by what I read about the author’s body of work. He has won a number of...
I reminded myself that thousands who’d never seen her at all would, at the report of her death, mourn as if they’d lost a loved one. And I suppose they had. On television tomorrow, there’d be an orgy of bereavement. When stars die suddenly it’s as if they give us our chance to grieve over Death i...