In “Hard Cash Valley,” we spend page time with small-time drug dealers, cockfighting masterminds, Filipino gangsters, and crooked police.

Clavin's nonfiction book "Tombstone" traces the tensions and factors as they build to pivotal events that make Tombstone live on in infamy.

When old college friends are snowed in, truths begin to come out and uncomfortable confrontations erupt.

I loved the early twentieth century Arizona Territory setting and details, as well as Mary Pearl’s spirit, grit, and determination.

Fowler touches on some big, intriguing issues about guilt and innocence and race.

The final book in Maureen Johnson's young adult Truly Devious trilogy wraps up the story, but I missed the earlier books' banter.

Child's Jack Reacher eschews societal standards of beauty and the judgment that often surrounds addiction. Jack Reacher doesn’t follow...

Tallulah shifts from resenting her future and her obligations to taking charge of her life and how she intends to live it.

Anappara captures the myriad sights, sounds, smells—and complicated network of politics and power—in an impoverished Indian neighborhood.

This was creepy and smart and kept me hooked, wondering if the characters were who they said they were. Libby Jones was adopted as an...

I loved the grumpy, jaded dragon of a main protagonist but had trouble with the purely evil bad guy. Vern! What I love love loved about...

I found it interesting that Schwab doesn't make you feel especially sympathetic toward either Victor or Eli. This is the second in...

Vance shares his unlikely, circuitous route to an emotionally and financially stable adult life. In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance mainly shares...

Wong’s reflections on growing up, the influence of her Asian culture, and starting out and making her way in comedy were the highlights for

I loved Alex and Henry and really all of the characters, the banter, and especially McQuiston's politics lite.

Wolfe's book was a fun, quick read that kept me engaged the whole way through. The Elizabethan-era detail in A Murder by Any Name was...

I felt promise in the characters and their mutual adoration, but I was distracted from feeling a true pull to the heart of this book. I...

I didn’t feel as attached to Aaron in this mystery set in the Australian bush, but I still love Harper's tone and pacing, and I'm in for her

The detail and thrills and chills of Viking-era Norway held so much promise, I'll give the next book in the series a try.

Bennett's characters in The Mothers often make questionable choices, sometimes with grim consequences.