Asako Serizawa’s Inheritors tells the story of a Japanese family caught up in history and […]
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde and Other True Crime Stories, by Mark Bowden
Journalist Mark Bowden pulls articles he has written over the years for newspapers and magazines […]
Echo on the Bay, by Masatsugu Ono
To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy, all happy villages are alike and all unhappy villages are unhappy […]
The Yield, by Tara June Winch
Yield is one of the first words in one of the documents—a dictionary and family […]
The Paris Library, by Janet Skeslien Charles
Being a teenager sucks. I certainly wasn’t fond of it. Like Lily, one of the […]
Keep Saying Their Names, by Simon Stranger
Trigger warning for torture and rape. In a narrative that strongly reminded me of HhHH, […]
The Sun Down Motel, by Simone St. James
For me, a big part of the attraction of true crime is seeing the killer […]
The Library of Legends, by Janie Chang
After a lifetime of hiding under an assumed name, Hu Lian’s life has turned around […]
The Disoriented, by Amin Maalouf
I sometimes worry that I spend too much time thinking about the meaning of titles, […]
Westside Saints, by W.M. Akers
After the extraordinary events of her first outing in W.M. Akers’ Westside, Gilda Carr is […]