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A new direction…

I originally started this site as a place Chicago area readers could find author events happening locally. With in person events temporarily on hiatus, I’m shifting to focus on book reviews with a special focus on Chicago authors. Enjoy!

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

I have read a lot of mysteries and most tend to follow a certain well worn path. The detective stumbles on or encounters a mystery. They follow certain threads and put the pieces together in order to bring the killer (sometimes charming and likable, sometimes not) to justice. So it takes something special to break […]

A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto

Seicho Matsumoto’s A Quiet Place revolves around a man so obsessed with his job that he doesn’t notice his wife is having an affair. It is only after her sudden death that he begins to unravel the truth about her all while unable to see his own truth.

The King of Confidence by Miles Harvey

Herman Melville coined the term “the confidence man” in his novel of the same name and Miles Harvey explores one such character in his non-fiction book The King of Confidence – A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch.

The Tiny Mansion by Keir Graff

After The Matchstick Castle and The Phantom Tower, Keir Graff is back with yet another building structure themed middle grade adventure – The Tiny Mansion.