Deputy Chief Crighton is a worried man. He had been called by publisher Jefferson Judd earlier in the day. Judd told him that his estranged wife, Cora, had visited him the previous night and demanded money from him. On Judd’s refusal (he feels that she would spend it on her drug addiction), she had threatened … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: Follow this Fair Corpse by Laurence Dwight Smith (1941)→| a hot cup of pleasure
About the Book: Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young – young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, … Continue reading Book Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura| Theresa Smith Writes
Living on the moors, the Woodrows are a strange family. The paterfamilias feels a great wrong was done to him by the world when his father was hanged for being a traitor during WWI. With his wife, he tries to prove his father’s innocence but when all their efforts come to naught, he withdraws from … Continue reading Mass Murder: The Survivors by Anne Edwards (1968)→| a hot cup of pleasure
When Rachel Haskell Dunlop recommends her artist friend, Erich Humphrey, to remodel her ancestral home, Pine Acres, she has no idea that her widowed mother, Marcella Haskell would fall in love with Erich who is fifteen years her junior and wish to marry him. She is livid as are her siblings: Millicent, Raymond, Fred, and … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: This Death was Murder by March Evermay (1940)→| a hot cup of pleasure
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About the Book: Duncan is charming, handsome – and Jane falls in love with him easily. But he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City. Jane sees Duncan’s old girlfriends everywhe…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max t…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mist…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, …| Theresa Smith Writes
Herman Melville Herman Melville was an American author best known for his ambitious and symbolic novel, Moby Dick, which was not a success during his lifetime. Although he began a career as a succe…| The Classics Club