by vjbooks | May 2, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
George Gates, who once toured the world as a travel writer, churns out fluff pieces for his local paper and spends his nights alone, imagining what he’d do to the person who murdered his eight-year-old son seven years before and is still at large in Cook’s...
by vjbooks | Dec 25, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(mcherald.com, Nov. 22, JC Patterson) Here’s a by-the-book breakdown of fine reads I have known and appreciated this year. The Big Boys: Heavyweight hits like Richard Price’s Lush Life, The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski , and my favorite read...
by vjbooks | Nov 24, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Nov. 3, Best Books of the Year Award) Edgar-winner Cook examines the slow collapse of a prominent Southern family in this magnificient tale of suspense set in 1954. Order your signed first edition copy of Master of the Delta from...
by vjbooks | Nov 19, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Pressconnections.com, Nov 18, Kevin Lucia) “The Cloud of Unknowing” is insidiously entertaining, and its chill lingers long after the last page. Raising philosophical questions about truth and insanity, it also tells a haunting tale of a family stalked by...
