The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller by noted author John Grisham. It takes place in Biloxi, Mississippi where a widow, backed by a rather powerful cadre of lawyers, has recently filed suit against a tobacco company claiming their cigarettes killed her husband by giving him lung cancer. While not necessarily an unusual lawsuit there…
Empery is the third and final book in The Trigon Disunity series by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It picks up quite some time after the previous book Enigma and focuses on the aftermath of Merritt Thackery and his discovery of the Mizari sterilizer. The new galactic Empire is continuing its expansion even as certain members of…
The Borrowers Afloat is the third book in The Borrowers series by Mary Norton and continues the adventures of the Clock family. Having been rescued from the gypsies by Spiller and Tom they are now residing with their cousins, the Hendrearys. While they are happy to be living in a relatively safe place and to…
Time for another one of my monthly lists and this time I decided to be extremely specific with my list so my criteria was pretty exacting. As you may have gathered from the title the books had to be about fictional female serial killers which is not necessarily an extremely common theme in fiction. The…
We The People by Russell Razzaque and T. J. MacGregor is a book about democracy and patriotism and doing the right thing. Luna Ochoa is a former government analyst who was fired when the new president took office. Now she works for Leo Montoya who is a reclusive billionaire who funds AI development and seems…
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally is the slightly fictionalized true story of Oskar Schindler. In the lead up to the Second World War he was an industrialist who managed to own an enamel factory where he was allowed to employ Jewish workers from the Kracow ghetto. At first he stayed concentrated on actually running a…
The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare is the second book in her new series, The Chronicles of Castellane. It picks up not long after the events of the previous book with Lin now having to undergo testing to prove to the other Ashkar that she is the Goddess returned, when even she doesn’t believe it.…
Disparate strings finally coming together as a story finally comes to a close. In The High King, the fifth and final book of the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander, we see the story that started all the way back in The Book of Three ending. Taran has just returned from his wandering adventure in the…
The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons is sad but still heartwarming. In 1938 Gertie Bingham is mourning the loss of her husband and struggling to run their bookstore that no longer feels the same. Thinking about retiring Gertie ends up postponing when her longtime friend Charles convinces her to instead take in a…
The Draconic Bibliophile
