Believe it not, Your Book Hound is not always up on the latest from every bestselling author. When I started to read City of Dreams, by Don Winslow, I thought the characters and style seemed familiar. I felt I had met them before in the book, The Force, which told the...
1989, an Allie Burns novel by Val McDermid, is set in (wait for it) the 1989. The cover features the image of a cassette tape, which reminds us (or at least me) that 1989 was a year of technological as well as political and societal change. The book features many...
Crisis, by Felix Francis, is one of a series of novels featuring Dick Francis, a London-based lawyer who works for a crisis management firm. What’s a crisis management firm? The book explains. The firm helps its clients navigate a crisis that could affect their...
If you’re familiar with Linwood Barclay’s work, you’ll recognize the milieu of his 2018 psychological thriller, A Noise Downstairs. Like many of his books, it’s set in suburbia, in this case some small towns on the outskirts of New Haven, Connecticut. It’s a landscape...
While reading White River Burning: A Dave Gurney Novel, by John Verdon, I came up with an amusing, and almost certainly alse idea of how this series of books came into existence. In my mind, Verdon is telling his agent about his latest book, a literary novel about a...
