A One-on-One With Ally Daniels by Jenny Milchman

Jul 10, 2014 | A Day In My Life

I’m not the pro—protagonist in Ruin Falls, I don’t think. Actually, I don’t really know what that word means, so I guess I could be. But I don’t think so because Ruin Falls is really my Mommy’s story. It started when we all went away on vacation. Me, my brother, Reid...

My Musing ~ The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo

Jul 10, 2014 | My Musing

The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo is the sixth book in the Kate Burkholder thriller series. Publisher: Minotaur, July 2014 Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets...

A Day in the Life Amelia Emmet by Lori Rader-Day

Jul 9, 2014 | A Day In My Life

Today is the day I’m reclaiming my life. Ten months ago, some kid, a student at Rothbert University I’d never met or taught in class, tried to take it from me. And then he succeeded in taking his own. I guess I should feel bad about that kid, but he didn’t leave me...

The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day

Jul 9, 2014 | My Musing

The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day. Publisher: Seventh Street Books, July 2014 For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic–until a student she’d never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he’s dead and she’s...