Books High and Low

  I really loved this first novel by author Shelby Van Pelt. It's about a woman named Tova Sullivan who has endured significant loss ove...

I did not love this horror novel about a young woman, Ingrid, who goes off to the Everglades for a weekend visit with Mayra, a friend she ha...

  I did not care for this book at all. Two families have been friends since childhood, but the adults all seem to resent and even dislike ea...

  I really enjoyed this true story about a husband and wife, both enslaved, who escape the south by disguising themselves as a master and sl...

  This is an amazing work of contemporary history. In it, author Danielle Leavitt profiles seven Ukrainians during the first 18 months of th...

  I've been reading about what a great TV series this is, but since I don't currently subscribe to Apple TV, I decided to read the b...

  I continue to be impressed with the excellent writing in this series.  Caveat emptor  is the 4th in the Medicus series which follows a 2nd...

In this 4th volume in the Libertus Roman series, author Rosemary Rowe has presented us with the sudden death of Perennis Felix, a high-ranki...

  This is the 10th Hercule Poirot mystery that I've read and features Poirot solving a crime that took place in an airplane cabin while ...

  Dispatches from the couch is about the author’s three-year odyssey in therapy to address her issues resulting from sexual abuse when sh...

  I didn't care much for this book the second time around (I read it before back in 2014). The main character, Cady, is a member of a we...

Murder in the dollhouse is a true crime non-fiction book about the disappearance of a wealthy socialite from Connecticut. Jennifer Dulos gr...

  This is the second in a series of mysteries set in 2nd century Britain. Libertus is a formerly enslaved man who works as a mosaic artist. ...

Peter May's  The Lewis Trilogy  included three novels set on the Isle of Lewis, the northernmost island in the Outer Hebrides, islands o...

This is a Hercule Poirot mystery that is framed in three acts: Suspicion, Certainty, and Discovery. Poirot doesn't start out as the lead...