Romance novels are not usually my thing. Historical fiction is. To Whisper Her Name is an historical romance, set just after the Civil War in Nashville, published by Zondervan, which makes it a Christian historical romance, doubly suspect in some circles. I must say, however, I found the novel absorbing, if somewhat difficult to swallow …
Category Archive: Adult Fiction
Jun 13
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
He could not accept that Fortuna might smile on him for half of his short life, only to watch pitilessly while his lungs gave out, leaving him to suffocate slowly. He refused to bow before a Providence determined to deliver him to an unmarked pauper’s grave in Colorado, fifteen hundred miles from the home he …
May 19
The Last Plea Bargain by Randy Singer
This legal thriller may have begun with the question: “What if all of the prisoners in a jurisdiction got together and went on strike? Specifically, what if all the criminals who were arrested in Harris County today made an agreement NOT to accept a plea bargain of any kind? What if all of the cases …
May 02
A Plain Death by Amanda Flower
I decided to read as many of the books as I can find that are shortlisted for the INSPY awards this year. A Plain Death is one of the five books shortlisted in the Mystery/Thriller category. This Amish country-setting mystery is the first in the Appleseed Creek Mystery series, and it’s an adequate beginning to …
Apr 15
Reinventing Rachel by Alison Strobel
Rachel just got hit with a triple whammy: her fiance is cheating on her, her parents have been keeping a big (BAD) secret from her, and her best friend and Christian mentor has a drug problem. So, Rachel goes off the rails, leaves her faith, and moves to Chicago. To my discredit, I am normally …
Apr 05
Poetry Friday: Discovering Poems
W.H. Auden: “if I have any work to do, I must be careful not to get hold of a detective story for, once I begin one, I cannot work or sleep till I have finished it.” Detective Story by W.H. Auden. If you’ve read the article and the poem and returned to get my take …
Apr 04
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield
Ah, yes, complex, multi-layered, “faith-informed” fiction. I speeded through this book, recommended to me by the blogger at Thoughts of Joy, because I really, really loved the characters and wanted to know what would happen to each of them. So, let’s start with the characters, almost of whom could be described as “central characters” in …
Mar 29
The Resurrection and the Life
I thought I’d post a few times today and tomorrow about the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and what it means to me and to some of the authors and fictional and actual characters that I have on my bookshelves. I’m going to take turns blogging and house-cleaning and see how …
Mar 20
No Wind of Blame by Georgette Heyer
I’m definitely a fan of Golden Age detective fiction—Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Rex Stout, Josephine Tey—but I’ve read all the books I can find by those authors. And I’ve tried a few others that are supposed to belong to that particular club, Margery Allingham and John Dickson Carr in particular, and I just didn’t care …
Mar 05
January Justice by Athol Dickson
Mr. Dickson, one of my favorite Christian authors, has this new entry in the genre of detective thriller with a complicated hero in a sticky situation. And there’s no explicit sex, bad language or nastily descriptive violence. Malcolm, recently released from the mental hospital, recently widowed after the murder of his rich-but-secret wife, and recently …
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