Kahn's latest legal thriller sets his series protagonist (and narrator) against a Goliath law firm and a crew of ex- and neo-Nazis in an intricate St. Louis civil suit. A secretary's Continue reading »
Both tough-minded and kind, Rachel Gold struggles with two difficult cases in Kahn’s enjoyable eighth mystery featuring the St. Louis attorney (after 2002’s Trophy Widow). First of all, Rachel is Continue reading »
At the start of Kahn’s engaging ninth mystery featuring lawyer Rachel Gold (after 2013’s The Flinch Factor), a security guard finds the broken body of Sari Bashir, a young attorney at St. Continue reading »
Equal parts rollicking adventure, existential and spiritual quest, and coming-of-(middle)-age tale, this stand-alone set in 1994 from Kahn includes a cameo appearance from series lead Rachel Gold Continue reading »
Kahn’s 10th mystery featuring St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold (after 2014’s Face Value) is more law-school textbook than legal thriller. The eponymous dead hand is an archaic term that refers Continue reading »
A Vietnamese woman becomes an amateur sleuth after her mother’s accidental death in the intriguing latest from Thuân (Chinatown). The unnamed 30-year-old narrator, a single Continue reading »
The gripping and revelatory latest from Moore (Long Bright River) revolves around a prominent banking family’s troubled legacy in the Adirondacks. In 1975, 13-year-old Barbara Continue reading »
This uproarious novel from Bhattacharya (1948–2014), originally published in 2003, exemplifies the author’s penchant for freewheeling magical realism and rollicking Continue reading »
In this scintillating collection from Indigenous Canadian author Belcourt (A Minor Chorus), queer Cree men grapple with the legacy of colonialism. “Being Indigenous in the Continue reading »