Book Reviews

"The Winter Dance Party Murders" by Greg Herriges centres around the events surrounding the deaths of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens and creates an intriguing mystery and the compromises implied by a career in Rock and Roll.

"The Yid" by Paul Goldberg is the kind of novel that rewards re-reading.

The book not only addresses what to do to alleviate the pain, but how to keep it from coming back.

The past and present collide in the arrest of a widower, Jack Harris, for a murder he claims he did not commit.

The reissue of a classic of British new wave s-f proves as germane today as it did when it first came out in paperback.

"The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf" by Martin Millar is a great book and a fun read for anyone sick and tired of paranormal romance novels.

'Dig Two Graves' has everything you would expect from a seasoned thriller pen.

This intensively researched historical novel follows the travels and peripatetic career of a myopic, bookish Jew who travels to great cities of the ancient world and lives through adventures thrilling and horrible that throw light on what life was like two thousand years ago.

For anyone who forgot someone on their holiday shopping list and needs to make it up fast, this collection of Tim Burton nostalgia,"Things You Think About in a Bar: The Napkin Art of Tim Burton" is worth the price of every drink these napkins came from.

'The Whites' is a book you will not want to put down until you reach the final page.