Genres

Hollywood screenwriter Bonnie MacBird discusses her passion for art, her film career, and her latest book, 'Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure.'

Interview with Dawn Brotherton author of "Trish's Team".

In The Good Liar by Nicolas Searle, Roy is a con-man finding and hooking up with elderly women on dating websites. He is calculating and cold, with a charm that just touches the surface as he finds the woman he is looking for. He will alternately woo her and then try to take her for all she is worth.

Mark Tooley discusses the uncertainty of 1861 and major figures following Abraham Lincoln's election in his book, "The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War."

In "Violent Crimes" Amanda Jaffe is hired to represent the son of a senior partner at a large Oregon law firm. As Jaffe digs to find the answers she finds more than she bargained for. Digging deeper, even at the risk of her life, she must find the answers to this vicious murder.

In Contract: Sicko, Ty Hutchinson brings us a stronger and more visceral Sei, a character at her wits end, beyond the thought of redemption, as she moves closer to finding the daughter kidnapped at birth.

In "Arcadia" Iain Pears has given us a sci-fi fantasy that keeps you looking for answers. It carries mystery, danger, suspense, and just an overall array of genres to keep even the most diehard reader engaged.

An interview with Lisa Jakub, author of "You Look Like that Girl: A Child Actor Finally Stops Pretending and Grows Up", moved on from Hollywood to Virginia, where she cultivated her interests in sociology, writing, and motivational speaking.

Ellen Wayland-Smith, it seems, was born into a fascinating topic, and in "Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table—An American Story", she has made the most of it.

In "The Lightkeepers" by Abby Geni we see that when the trappings of civilization are stripped away humans are animals after all.