reviews

Submerged Emotions and Violent Intentions Author: Kelly Luce At 12, she stabs him to death in front of the class. As an adult, now running from her past, she’s tried to forget – and mostly been successful. Then a package from Japan arrives, and it’s time to unravel the motivations of the past and prod the violence – the self-named black organ – to see if it still lives, if it’s still dangerous. Pull Me Under is both a story of bullying and deception, of guilt and the empty spaces where it should be. Chizuru Akitani is half Japanese, half white, [...]

Through a Novel Darkly . . . Author: Cate Holahan Distraught both by her unraveling personal life and her nearly dead career, Liza Cole is making a last ditch attempt under a tight deadline to write a thriller that will revamp her career and hopefully help her exercise some marital demons along the way. When truth becomes stranger than fiction though, Liza’s story starts to intersect too much with her life and the sinister missing person status of her husband’s obviously more-than-best-friend. Now Liza must unravel her malevolent fictional character’s story to find, and protect, her own. Classic obscurest twists [...]

The Secret Lives of Families Author: J. Courtney Sullivan J. Courtney Sullivan, known for her contemporary family dramas, explores the passage of time and social mores as two young Irish girls are jettisoned from their homeland to America – a place where their biggest opportunities and freedoms can only be constrained by the unspoken yet ardent code of acceptable behavior. Twenty-one year old Nora is keenly aware that as the oldest she is expected to be the guardian of her starry-eyed, semi-wild sister. Nora, who is leaving the land and home she loves and the only best friend she will [...]