Operation Redwood, S. Terrell French
Middle Grade Fiction Reviewed by Kimberly Christensen Shuffled off to his aunt and uncle’s house in San Francisco while his mom takes a work assignment … Read more
Category Archives: Mystery
Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
Little Badger’s debut novel, “Elatsoe”… is a young adult fantasy about a 17-year-old Lipan Apache girl who can awaken the ghosts of dead animals and … Read more
Trace Elements, Donna Leon
In “Trace Elements,” a character who worked in the field collecting samples of contamination for a company that measures the cleanliness of Venice’s water supply … Read more
The Second Sleep, Robert Harris
It’s within this strange and ambiguous historical setting that Harris has also fashioned a cautionary tale for today — a tale over which the 21st … Read more
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (originally titled Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych). Man Booker International Prize Nominee (2019). Olga is also a Nobel prize winner in literature … Read more
Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips
It’s possible, though, that novelists are responding to the effects of climate change in ways other than direct representation…Julia Phillips’s brilliant debut novel “Disappearing Earth” … Read more
Where Oceans Hide their Dead, John Yunker
The long-awaited sequel to The Tourist Trail…Robert Porter has quit the FBI in search of his long-lost (and presumed dead) love, Noa, only to find … Read more
The River, Peter Heller
The real delight is the nature writing. The River is a fiction addition to the New Landscape writing of Robert Macfarlane and Rebecca Solnit, prose so … Read more
A Jenny Willson Mystery Series, Dave Butler
The first in Butler’s series of novels – Full Curl – was short-listed for the Kobo Emerging Writers Award in the mystery category, and won … Read more
Beneath the Mother Tree, D.M. Cameron
A spine-chilling mystery and contemporary love story, Beneath the Mother Tree plays out in a unique and wild Australian setting, interweaving Indigenous history and Irish … Read more
Wilder Girls, Rory Power
From Hypable: Wilder Girls by Rory Power follows Hetty as she looks for her friend, braving a world outside of quarantine and discovering the truth … Read more
The Same River, Lisa Reddick
Ever since a childhood tragedy bonded Jessica Jensen to Oregon’s mighty Nesika River, she has seen herself as its guardian. Now a courageous field biologist, … Read more
The Butterfly Effect, Rajat Chaudhuri
This timely novel explores a dystopian Asian future, the result of interference with nature. Rajat Chaudhuri’s ‘The Butterfly Effect’ blends mystery, eco-fiction and a Russian … Read more
Forgotten Things, Stephen Mullaney-Westwood
The beauty of the Cornish countryside… The innocence of childhood in the 1980’s… An ancient mystery not quite forgotten. Mullaney-Westwood’s first novel is a spiritual … Read more
The Honey Farm, Harriet Alida Lye
The drought has discontented the bees. Soil dries into sand; honeycomb stiffens into wax. But Cynthia knows how to breathe life back into her farm: … Read more