reviews

Lamas, Long Life, and the Moderately Heretical Author: James Hilton It’s 1931. The situation in Baskul, China has deteriorated into all out warfare. A group of four, including the famous World War I hero and current diplomat Hugh Conway, must hastily board a tiny, single engine aircraft to be flown to the relative peacefulness of Peshawar. When their pilot gets jumped at the last minute and a new man with a gun takes over the plane, however, a very different journey unfolds. Flying at dangerous altitudes into the serene but remote Himalayan Mountains, making a mysterious stop for an armed refuel, [...]

  Love, the Muse, and Murder Author: Louise Penny It’s the year long anniversary of Clara and Peter’s temporary split: a moment in time for them to both rethink their marriage and the best options for moving onward – alone or together. Clara set the ultimatum and Peter, the betrayer caught at his own game, accepted the consequences of his actions and agreed to meet Clara a year later, after much soul searching, after trying to become a good man. Only, the anniversary has come and gone, and Peter never returned. Clara turns to the one person she knows can [...]

Ambition, Secrets, and a Killer Author: J.P. Pomare Margot Scott, happily married psychologist with two nearly grown children and the requisite home in the suburbs, has mostly recovered from her one moment of indiscretion at the beginning of her career. She’s settled into the dull thrum of a normal life, spiced only by the problems of her borderline clients and the occasionally unsettling memories of her past. All that is about to change though, when someone enters her house in the middle of the night, leaving a trail of flames and a violent drawing left outside her front door. Displaced, [...]