Review: The Puzzler by A. J. Jacobs
Summary: What makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to[…]
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Tag: 4.5 stars
Review: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Summary: Masterfully researched and eloquently written, The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions[…]
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Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
“Alan Conway is a bestselling crime writer. His editor, Susan Ryeland, has worked with him for years, and she’s intimately[…]
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The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
“The Only Plane in the Sky is the historic narrative of how ordinary people grappled with extraordinary events in real[…]
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Brazen by Katherine Longshore
“Mary Howard has always lived in the shadow of her powerful family. But when she’s married off to Henry Fitzroy,[…]
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Wake of the Bloody Angel by Alex Bledsoe
“Twenty years ago, a barmaid in a harbor town fell for a young sailor who turned pirate to make his[…]
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The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke
“When Cat Novak was a young girl, her father brought Finn, an experimental android, to their isolated home. A billion-dollar[…]
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Maplecroft by Cherie Priest
“The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of[…]
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Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
“Miriam Black knows when you will die. Still in her early twenties, she’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks,[…]
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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
“For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their[…]
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