On a beautiful fall morning in Paris, things are not normal. Kate Moore, expat American in Paris, mother of two, and clandestine CIA agent, senses it almost immediately. There are sirens in the distance, too many, coming closer, and she wonders if this is the day her world will begin to fall apart. Over the…
When Princess Elizabeth announced her official engagement to Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark in 1947, the news came as a welcome distraction to the harsh reality of post-World War II England. Jennifer Robson’s new novel, The Gown, takes the reader to this period when citizens had to maintain a stiff upper lip in the…
Taylor Jenkins Reid captures the wild and crazy 1970s rock ‘n roll scene in her fun new novel, Daisy Jones & The Six. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Reid said she “wanted it to feel like an episode of Behind the Music, as if you were hearing it from the people directly. That there was…
Erica’s Pick of the Week is a Singapore-set historical mystery and a welcome change of scene.
Professor Chandra, noted Cambridge economics professor, has been passed over for the Nobel Prize. Again. Estranged from his family, and realizing that the prize may be forever out of his reach, he finds himself adrift. After an unexpected bicycle accident, he takes a temporary position in Orange County and tries to reconnect with his ex-wife…
