Like a favorite recipe with all the right ingredients in proper quantities,  Hidden Pictures has mystery, romance, realism, and horror all combined in perfect proportion and mixed with strategic purpose.  Edgar Award winning author Jason Rekulak, has created with his sophomore novel another intriguing page turner that is hard to put down. Narrator Mallory Quinn has…

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The mention of Mafia often brings to people’s minds memories of The Godfather or The Sopranos.  In fact, Naomi Krupitsky the author of The Family: a Novel claims both of these sources, plus Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: the Market for Lemons were inspirations for her writing.  This reader picked up Krupitsky’s novel because of the storyline involving the…

Peppered with flavorful tidbits of Celtic mythology, paragraphs from traditional Selkie tales published from 1849 – 1903 which help set the mood, The Hidden by Melanie Golding is a psychological thriller that starts out intensely  with an abandoned child and a bloody body in a bathtub.   The chapters are short and switch perspectives, timeframes and characters. They keep the reader…