Synopsis In the glittering world of 1920s New York, the seven Ridley heirs seem to have it all: wealth, status, and protection as the city’s most powerful family. But when notorious gossip columnist Dale Caimen is found dead during their family’s renowned summer soiree, their carefully constructed world begins to crack. Behind the champagne […]
Synopsis Alexa lives a sheltered life with her widowed father, feeling stifled by his helicopter parenting. When she secures a marketing job and apartment in New York City—much to her father’s and therapist’s concern—Alexa has high hopes of finally sneaking her way into adulthood. But her newfound freedom is cut short when […]
A highly opinionated, vibrantly illustrated wine guide from one of the country’s most celebrated—and unorthodox—sommeliers and winemakers In this entertaining, informative, and thoroughly unconventional wine guide, award-winning sommelier, winemaker, and wine educator André Mack presents readers with the 99 bottles that have most impacted his life. Instead of just pairing wines with foods, Mack […]
Synopsis Like Swans of Fifth Avenue and Truman Capote’s Answered Prayers, Richard Kirshenbaum’s Rouge gives readers a rare front row seat into the world of high society and business through the rivalry of two beauty industry icons, by the master marketer and chronicler of the over-moneyed. Rouge is a sexy, glamorous journey into the rivalry of the pioneers of […]
The Art of Being Rebekkah is an Intricate Tale of a Woman’s Struggle with a Troubled Marriage, the Love of Her Life, Faith and Her Unborn Child When 20-something Rebekkah Gelles suspects her husband, Avram, not only of lying and stealing, but also of contriving to bar her from having the children she so desperately […]
Today’s feature of Mystery Monday takes us to New York with the book The Eskimo Hunts in New York by author Stefan Kanfer. Synopsis: Jordan Gulok is an Inuit, an Eskimo in common parlance, and a former Navy SEAL. In his freelance capacity he can do things—like tracking and on occasion killing malefactors—that are beyond […]
In November I attended an event called Readers & ‘Ritas where I got to meet several authors. Another author I met was Wendy Markham, or perhaps also known to you as Wendy Corsi Staub. I remember about a year or so ago when I realized these were the same people, no wonder I liked all […]
Earlier this year I reviewed an excellent historical fiction novel by Ed Brodow called Fixer. If you haven’t picked that one up, definitely add it to your TBR (to be read) list. Ed contacted me again and asked if I would like to review his new book, Women from Venus. This book contains four short […]
After a few stand alone books (Hush and The Sixes), Kate White brings to us another installment in the Bailey Weggins series. Synopsis: Bailey Weggins, the thirty-something, true crime journalist for Buzz, a leading celebrity magazine, needs a break. Plenty busy with her day job, her freelance work, and trying to get her first book […]
I love getting random emails from authors asking me to review a book, especially when the book is something I probably wouldn’t have normally picked up or even known about. Stretching the mind is a good thing! Ed Brodow contacted me about reading and reviewing Fixer which is fiction but loosely based on his Grandfather’s […]