Dear Ms. Rock, I enjoy a good historical mystery and with a cover quote from Ariana Franklin, I knew I had to try your novel “The Rhetoric of Death.” It also didn’t hurt that it has a most unusual setting of late 17th century France and a hero who is ... more >
“For straight-and-narrow art restorer Ardis Bellamy, a trip to the South of France to reclaim a historic blue diamond necklace should have been only mildly nerve-wracking. Understatement. In order to succeed, she’s going to have to learn whom she can and can’t trust, give the thugs who are chasing her ... more >
Dear Ms. Kearsley, For the last two or three years readers have been recommending your novels, but they've haven't been easily available in the US. So when I saw that one of them was being published here, I jumped at the chance to read it. The Winter Sea is difficult ... more >
Dear Readers, My husband and I have lately been reading to each other in lieu of watching television. Recently we finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Yes, I'm aware that I’m the last person on Planet Earth to read this book but I thought that it might be worth ... more >
Disclosure: Back in the days when pterodactyls soared across the skies (about a dozen years ago or so) I took a couple of eight week novel writing classes with Patricia Ryan. She was a wonderful teacher, and I learned a lot from those classes. Aside from those two courses, and ... more >
Dear Mr. Mills, Your first novel takes place in the summer of 1947 on Long Island, in and near the Hamptons, where the wealthy have summer homes. Not far from the Hamptons is Amagansett, a working class community. The two communities coexist side-by-side, but not without tension. Through political maneuverings ... more >