Reviews

Set in 1889 London, The Yard focuses on policemen working the murder squad in Scotland Yard.  The atmosphere in London is tense; it is just after the spectacular and complete failure of Scotland Yard to capture Jack the Ripper.  Our story focuses on a newly appointed detective, and his unfo

The Last Letter from Your Lover opens with Jennifer Stirling, a woman of high society in 1960s London, who wakes from a coma following a car accident.  Suffering from amnesia, she struggles to piece together her past and regain s

Roger Brown takes pride in being one of the best corporate headhunters in the region but his paycheck can’t keep up with his wife’s lifestyle. He adds to his paycheck by dabbling in art theft. Roger has adopted the FBI interrogation techniques in interviewing his job candidates and he double bluffs his clients to up the commission he receives for his efforts.

In the 15th book in Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series, Connelly returns to familiar ground, leaving behind Nine Dragons' Hong Kong setting, returning to Los Angeles and reuniting readers with Bosch’s original nemesis, Irvin Irving.  Irving first appeared in the original Bosch

This memoir provides a window into the most prestigious culinary institute in the world, the Paris Cordon Bleu.  It was written while the author herself was one of the students there.

In his book, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson provides a fascinating fly-on-the-wall view of many of the defining moments in Steve Jobs life.  The author thoroughly researched his subject, conducting 40 in-depth interviews with Jobs and interviewing over a hundred people who were assoc

The Cat’s Table tells the story of an 11-year-old boy traveling alone on an ocean liner from Columbo, a city in Sri Lanka, to England.  His parents are divorced, and he’s moving to live with his mother whom he hasn’t seen for years.

On June 16, Burmese opposition leader and newly elected lawmaker Aung San Suu Kyi finally got a chance to deliver her acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize. Suu Kyi was awarded the prize back in 1991, when she was under house arrest in Burma.

I was so excited to see this book!  Sister Queens is a carefully researched, dual biography of two of Isabella and Ferdinand’s daughters - Katherine became a queen by marrying the heir to the English throne, later crowned Henry VIII, after the death of her 1st husband, Hen

Mara Dyer wakes up with no memory of the building collapse that kills her best friend and boyfriend.  She wakes up with no memory of why they went to the abandoned asylum or what happened to cause the accident.  But she does wake up different.  She begins seeing things—and people—that aren’t there.  She loses chunks of time.  She hurts herself wit