Quick Book Reviews Blog

  Maggie Shipstead has waited a few years between her second book and her latest release, Great Circle , taking the time to craft an epic and humorous story centred on two women separated by decades.  The first is a daredevil whose plane mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the twentieth century, and the second one is an actress hired to portray the first woman many years later.

Jami Attenberg didn't need to write many novels to gain a considerable amount of attention from the literary community for her insightful perception of family and human relations. In All This Could Be Yours , she tells the story of Alex Tuchman, a mother and a lawyer, who tries to unearth the truth about her father who is now on his deathbed. By all accounts he was a bad man, but Alex wants to know it beyond all doubt, and this will require her to pry loose her tight-lipped mother in New Orleans.

Elmore Leonard has time and time again surpassed himself and entertained the masses in his long and storied career, and his novel Pronto , like many others, illustrated his many qualities to near-perfection. The story follows U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens as he races against the Miami mob and a Sicilian hitman to find a runaway bookie hiding away somewhere in Italy... a bookie who already escaped him once before.