Never After, Melissa De La Cruz, Roaring Brook Press – Filomena Jefferson-Cho of North Pasadena, California, feels her life is stifling. Her adoptive parents are way over-protective, hardly daring to allow Filomena out of their sight.
Cindy Matthews
Cindy A. Matthews' articles and essays have appeared in over forty publications. She works as a freelance manuscript evaluator, book reviewer, and copy editor. Her writer's guide, Defeating the Slushpile Monster, was a finalist in the self-help/non-fiction category of the 2009 EPIC awards and is now available in print and in Kindle formats. More information about her editorial services and non-fiction works can be found at her web site/blog www.cindyamatthews.com
Writing as Cynthianna, Cindy has published contemporary and fantasy romantic-comedies. Cindy also writes sf/paranormal erotic-romance as Celine Chatillon. See her work on Amazon.com.
Review: A Stranger at the Door by Jason Pinter
A Stranger at the Door, Jason Pinter, Thomas & Mercer – After their harrowing adventures in Hide Away, police consultant Rachel Marin and her young family are settled in the city of Ashby.
Review: Bone Canyon by Lee Goldberg
Bone Canyon, Lee Goldberg, Thomas & Mercer – Rookie Los Angeles Sheriff Department Detective Eve Ronin gained her rapid career advancement thanks to leverage created by media exposure—one incident earned her the nickname “Deathfist.”
Review: Every Last Secret by A. R. Torre
Review: Every Last Secret, A. R. Torre, Thomas & Mercer – Cat Winthorpe has it all. William, her gorgeous husband of thirteen years, runs his own highly successful tech company.
Review: Leif and the Fall by Allison and Adam Grant
Review: Leif and the Fall, Allison and Adam Grant, Dial Books – Every leaf must fall come the autumn, but Leif is different. He’s a leaf who is afraid of falling from his tree.
Review: Girl Gone Mad by Avery Bishop
Review: Girl Gone Mad, Avery Bishop, Lake Union – Fourteen years ago, Emily Bennett belonged to a middle school girl gang known as the Harpies. Bullying and frequently vicious, the Harpies were detested by teachers and pupils alike.
Review: The Unspoken by Ian K. Smith
Review: The Unspoken, Ian K. Smith, Thomas & Mercer – Former Chicago PD Detective Ashe Cayne’s strong sense of justice cost him his job when he refused to take part in a cover-up.
Review: We are all the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin
We are all the Same in the Dark, Julia Heaberlin, Ballantine Books – Trumanell Branson was a Texas town’s homecoming queen, a beyond-beautiful local heroine who overcame a deeply troubled home life to win the respect of her neighbors.
Book Review: For the Best by Vanessa Lillie
For the Best, Vanessa Lillie, Thomas & Mercer – Juliet Worthington-Smith, CEO of the Poe Foundation of Rhode Island, wakes with a blistering hangover one summer morning to find the police at her door.
Book Reviews: Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 edited by Sean Wilentz
Hofstadter: Uncollected Essays 1956-1965, Sean Wilentz Editor, Library of America – Pulitzer prize-winning historian Richard Hofstadter possessed a genuine feel for trends in American society.
