Black Light Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan and Stephen Romano Mulholland Books Hardcover, 336 pages, $25.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Seeing dead people comes with baggage. For Buck Carlsbad, the protagonist of Black Light, there is wear and tear on the body as well...
Vacation Matthew Costello Thomas Dunne Books Hard Cover, 320 pages, $24.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt How to address a derivative storyline that is well executed: This is the dilemma regarding Vacation by Matthew Costello. The narrative does not go the patented,...
Dream House Directed by Jim Sheridan Starring Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz Review by Wayne C. Rogers First, I’m learning that if you want to be a writer, you can’t read other people’s books (friends or not) or even go to the movies. You can watch...
Cosmic Forces (The Jake Helman Files) Gregory Lamberson Medallion Press Trade Paper, 432 pages, $14.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt It is doubtful that Gregory Lamberson’s creation, Jake Helman, will often be mentioned in the same sentence as Shakespeare’s...
All the Earth, Thrown To the Sky Joe R. Lansdale Delacorte Press, 2011 Hardcover, 227pp., $16.99 Review by Wayne C. Rogers There are a lot of talented authors out there I enjoy reading. Probably dozens and dozens of them. Maybe even a hundred or more. In my opinion,...
Harbor John Ajvide Lindqvist Thomas Dunne Books Hardcover, 512 pages, $25.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Let the Right One In catapulted John Ajvide Lindqvist to the highest echelon of literary respect. He confirmed this exalted position with his next novel, Handling...
