Robert Dugoni

Robert Dugoni is a critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author, reaching over 9 million readers worldwide. He is best known for his Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle. He is also the author of the Charles Jenkins espionage series, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and several stand-alone novels including The 7th Canon, Damage Control, The World Played Chess, and Her Deadly Game. His novel The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell received Suspense Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year, and Dugoni’s narration won an AudioFile Earphones Award. The Washington Post named his nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary a Best Book of the Year.

Dugoni's new novel is One Split Second.

Recently I asked the author about what he was reading. Dugoni's reply:

I’m reading several novels. I usually have a wide variety. I’m reading The Shadow Friends by Tess Gerritsen, the third book in

her series involving slightly older, but highly capable members of The Martini Club who solve mysteries and crimes. You can’t go wrong with Tess Gerritsen.

I’m also reading Lisa Gardner’s latest, You’ll be Sorry. I’m not sorry. It’s scary. A married couple with secrets in a secluded lodge of a small town. Gives you chills, doesn’t it?

I’m also reading Sawgrass Grave by Brooke Terpening. It’s the story of a mitigation investigator seeking information to be used at the trial of her client, a not so likeable man accused of a horrific crime.

And I’m reading a Cath Carson psychological mystery, Beneath the Carriage House. A divorced mom trying desperately to hang onto her child against a horrible husband – a doctor, and his shiny new wife, moves into a creepy carriage house on the property of a woman who she has never known, but learns is her aunt. What can go wrong seems to go wrong, and every page turn makes me wonder, what’s beneath the Carriage House?

Visit Robert Dugoni's website and Facebook page.

The Page 69 Test: Wrongful Death.

The Page 69 Test: Bodily Harm.

My Book, The Movie: Bodily Harm.

The Page 69 Test: Murder One.

My Book, The Movie: Murder One.

My Book, The Movie: The Eighth Sister.

The Page 69 Test: The Eighth Sister.

My Book, The Movie: A Cold Trail.

The Page 69 Test: A Cold Trail.

The Page 69 Test: The Last Agent.

My Book, The Movie: The Last Agent.

Q&A with Robert Dugoni.

The Page 69 Test: In Her Tracks.

Writers Read: Robert Dugoni (March 2024).

The Page 69 Test: A Killing on the Hill.

My Book, The Movie: A Killing on the Hill.

The Page 69 Test: Beyond Reasonable Doubt.

My Book, The Movie: Beyond Reasonable Doubt.

Writers Read: Robert Dugoni (October 2024).

My Book, The Movie: Her Cold Justice.

The Page 69 Test: Her Cold Justice.

Writers Read: Robert Dugoni (February 2026).

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Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker’s first novel, The Golem and the Jinni, was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award. A Midwest native, Wecker holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Joyland and Catamaran, as well as the fantasy anthology The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children.

Wecker's new novel, The Gates of Midnight, is the much-anticipated conclusion to The Golem and the Jinni trilogy.

Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Wecker's reply:

I've been in a weird reading space for the past month or so, the kind where I have a hard time settling. I'll pick up a book and then give it up as not quite right, when the truth is that it's perfectly fine and I'm the problem. I'm glad that I managed to read Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional before the malaise set in. Wood's protagonist is an unnamed Australian woman who, in the throes of burnout, decides to visit a shabby quasi-convent near the village where she grew up. The next thing the reader knows, she's left her husband and her job and moved in permanently. She's not a nun, or at all religious. She doesn't even believe in God. What she seems to want is refuge and solitude, so that she can do the work of examining her own life. And the convent provides that, for the most part -- though there are crises here and there, including a mouse infestation that begins as a nuisance and then turns horrifyingly Biblical. There's also an extended dilemma involving a celebrity nun and the remains of one of the convent's former sisters. The narrator describes these doings alongside her own childhood, excavating memories and regrets. The outcome is nothing so dramatic as a spiritual rebirth; instead Wood makes us feel the result as a series of slow, tectonic shifts, as the narrator adjusts towards a greater acceptance.

Visit Helene Wecker's website.

Writers Read: Helene Wecker (June 2013).

The Page 69 Test: The Golem and the Jinni.

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Laura Creedle

Laura Creedle is the author of The Deep Well, which Kirkus Reviews called “a fresh take on horror,” and The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily. When they’re not writing, Creedle can usually be found playing pinball or watching indie horror. They live in Austin, Texas, with their husband and a feral cat named Hellman who was found with her head stuck in a mayonnaise jar.

Creedle's new novel is The Girl in Green.

Recently I asked the author about what they were reading. Creedle's reply:

I’m reading a lot of indie horror right now. Last time I was in Louisville Ky, I went to Butcher Cabin Books. The co-owner of the store, Jenny Kiefer, wrote a book called This Wretched Valley, about a lost climbing expedition in the wilds of Kentucky. I’m a sucker for the idea of a lost expedition, Dyatlov Pass style, so it instantly piqued my interest. The author is a rock climber and it shows and all the details. There are paranormal aspects to the book but since I’m afraid of heights, I found the climbing scenes particularly nerve-wracking.

I just finished Silvia Moreno Garcia’s Velvet was the Night. I loved Mexican Gothic, and I was expecting something similar, but this book took me by surprise. It’s a noir set in the wake of Mexico’s 1971 Corpus Christi student massacre. I didn’t know this history and I found the book fascinating.

Visit Laura Creedle's website.

The Page 69 Test: The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily.

My Book, The Movie: The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily.

Writers Read: Laura Creedle (January 2018).

--Marshal Zeringue

Claire Booth

Claire Booth spent more than a decade as a daily newspaper reporter, much of it covering crimes so convoluted and strange they seemed more like fiction than reality. Eventually, she had enough of the real world and decided to write novels instead. Her Sheriff Hank Worth mystery series takes place in Branson, Missouri, where small-town Ozark politics and big-city country music tourism clash in, yes, strange and convoluted ways. Her latest is the critically acclaimed Hidden Currents.

Recently I asked Booth about what she was reading. Her reply:

I usually have two books going at once--a novel and a non-fiction. Here are a few that I've enjoyed lately.

Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy. I just finished this and can’t stop thinking about it. It’s an absolutely beautiful book that manages to be haunting and exciting at the same time (an enormously difficult thing to pull off). The island of Shearwater, close to Antarctica, is disappearing into the ocean and with it the research station and seed bank that are located there. A woman washes up on the shore during a storm and is nursed back to health by the widower and his three children who are caretakers of the island. McConaghy brings everything to life—the island and its animal and plant inhabitants, as well as the mysterious woman and the caretaker’s family, all of whom are hiding secrets. It’s an examination of loss and love—how to survive the first and why to bother with the second. It’s also a dazzlingly entertaining read.

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories, by Agatha Christie. I found this 1985 edition at a garage sale and I’ve dipping into it in between the novels I read. It’s been a real treat.

The Living and the Dead, by Christoffer Carlsson. I’ve recommended Carlsson’s books before, and he’s so good, I have to do it again. This is his latest, and the Swedish author keeps getting better. It’s a cold case in a small Swedish town, where twenty years of secrets are about to be uncovered. Carlsson’s characters are so rich and well-drawn, you feel like you’re living alongside them in rural Sweden. In his day job, he’s a criminologist, so he knows a thing or two about the human psyche. If you like this one (and you will), go back and read Blaze Me a Sun and Under the Storm.

The Electra McDonnell series, by Ashley Weaver. This is a five-book series that I desperately wanted to be longer. Living in London during the WWII Blitz, Electra earns her living as a thief and a safecracker. It’s the latter skill that brings her to the attention of British military intelligence, which needs her to break in and “liberate” things from Nazi sympathizers. These are darker than standard cozy mysteries (Weaver treats the Blitz with the solemnity and pain that it deserves), but there’s with and romance and danger and absolutely buckets of charm. I loved them. You’ll definitely want to read them in order. Then you can join my lobbying campaign to get her to write more of them.

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, by Roger Crowley. Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. This chronicles the history of the great Christian city that straddled Europe and Asia and was the ultimate prize for any conqueror. Crowley pulls off a major feat—the book is packed with history and facts and still manages to be fast-paced and smooth to the point of almost reading like a novel. It’s helped enormously by great use of primary sources that really let the voices of the eyewitnesses involved shine through. If you enjoy history, this is a great one for you.

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon, by Kevin Fedarko, with photos by Pete McBride. One day, in a spectacular feat of bad judgement, a writer and his photographer friend decide to hike the Grand Canyon. The whole Grand Canyon. With no preparation. (There’s a reason why only a few dozen people in history have accomplished this.) It takes a book to explain why they tried it, how they survived, and what they got out of it. Fedarko is a beautiful writer and paints a picture of the canyon with words so vivid, they’ll stay with you long after you’ve finished the book. He and McBride originally conceived the hike, which they did in sections, as an assignment for National Geographic. McBride’s gorgeous NatGeo-worthy photos are an added bonus to a phenomenal book.

Visit Claire Booth's website.

My Book, The Movie: Another Man's Ground.

The Page 69 Test: Another Man's Ground.

My Book, The Movie: A Deadly Turn.

The Page 69 Test: A Deadly Turn. 

Writers Read: Claire Booth (March 2019).

My Book, The Movie: Fatal Divisions.

The Page 69 Test: Fatal Divisions.

Q&A with Claire Booth.

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Linda Kass

Linda Kass began her career as a magazine journalist and correspondent for regional and national publications. Along with her new novel, World News from Waverley High, she is the author of three previous works of historical fiction: Tasa’s Song (2016), A Ritchie Boy (2020), and Bessie (2023). A longtime civic leader, she is the founder and owner of Gramercy Books, an independent bookstore in Central Ohio. Kass lives in Columbus with her husband, Frank; they have four children, six grandchildren, and a labradoodle named Wally.

Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Kass's reply:

I recently finished back-to-back readings of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, third in his crime trilogy set in New York. I was left with an impression that Whitehead’s Ray Carney had some aligned traits, or at least parallels, with Morrison’s Mason Dead II, both Black businessmen who make property, commerce, and respectability central to their identities. But this is something I need to contemplate further. To review each:

Song of Solomon was written in 1977 and Morrison’s third novel after The Bluest Eye and Sula. It’s a deep and sprawling story that blends magical realism, folklore, and poetic prose. It follows Macon "Milkman" Dead III (Macon Dead II’s son) on a coming-of- age journey from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins as it explores identity formation and evolution, intergenerational family trauma, and African American heritage. The characters are rich but flawed from Milkman and his self-absorbed youth to his estranged and mystical aunt Pilate and the complex women who carry the emotional weight of the narrative. I love Morrison’s attention to detail, especially in expressing tense emotion and speech. The novel covers nearly a century of American history—the early chapters are set in Michigan in the early 1930s—as it affects a single family. If the first half of the novel reveals how Milkman grows up into chaos and genuine danger, the second part is one of flight where he is flung out of his private maelstrom and forced to discover, explore, comprehend, and accept a world more dangerous than the ghetto neighborhood known as Blood Bank (filled with eccentrics, whores, bullies, and lunatics) which he visited as a boy. This latter section is both Milkman’s liberating escape from generational trauma and his dangerous abandonment of loved ones. Although it begins as a hungry hunt for a cache of gold that his father and Pilate left in a cave in Virginia, Milkman’s search is finally a search for family history.

In Cool Machine, Colson Whitehead concludes one of the richest portraits of New York — his entertaining trilogy of novels that opened in the late 1950s with Harlem Shuffle and chronicled a changing Harlem over a thirty-year span in the 20th century. This third volume is full of heists and cultural shifts while portraying 1980s New York during the exact years I lived in the city. We again meet up with protagonist Ray Carney, a furniture salesman who can’t help but be drawn into the criminal underworld despite his mainstream aspirations. Whitehead’s versatility as a writer is unmatched and this novel continues the author’s spirited, yarn-like quality that makes this story, as the first two, as fun to read as it is to think about. From a noir detective story to an auto fictional coming-of-age tale, from a zombie apocalypse novel to profound literary historical fiction based on true events, Whitehead’s voice remains distinctive and his prose is consistently precise, assured, and pitch perfect. Cool Machine follows this vital path.

Visit Linda Kass's website.

Writers Read: Linda Kass (June 2026).

Writers Read: Linda Kass (July 2026).

Writers Read: Linda Kass (August 2026).

My Book, The Movie: World News from Waverley High.

Q&A with Linda Kass.

--Marshal Zeringue

Vikki VanSickle

Vikki VanSickle has worked as a bookseller, a menstrual health educator, a creative writing instructor and publishing professional with Penguin Random House Canada. Currently, she lives and writes in Toronto and hosts a book segment on CTV Your Morning.

VanSickle's new novel is The Mystic and the Missing Girl.

Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Her reply:

I am a voracious reader and like to read across all sorts of genres. Here are some titles I have absolutely loved recently.

The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey is a compulsive, twisty piece of speculative fiction that reminded me at times of Never Let Me Go. Set it an alternate 1970s, three boys remain at one of the last remaining homes for boys who are susceptible to a mysterious, unnamed illness. They know very little about the world, much like Nancy, another child who lives with loving parents who never let her leave the house. But these children are connected in a stunning, horrifying twist. The world building in this novel complex but never confusing, like a gorgeous puzzle revealed in stunning pieces from multiple perspectives. It can be difficult to pull off a believable and satisfying child narrator in adult fiction, but Catherine Chidgey does it so well. She is an author who deserves a much bigger profile. This title and a previous title, Pet, are among the books I recommend the most.

I love it when an author can successfully blend genre elements, and Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett is a prime example of how this can be done well. Set in a magical version of 1920s Montreal where Magicians are maligned by society, it is both historical and fantastical. After her cat shelter is destroyed in a magical attack, Agnes needs a new place to house her many stray cats. She finds herself renting a location from Havelock, the infamous Witch King, a magician who is in hiding from his villainous sister and general society. At first Agnes and Havelock do not get along, but irritation turns to attraction, as it so often does in these cozy romances. Magical and historical elements, enemies-to-lovers romance trope, time travel—this book has it all yet never feels overly stuffed or uneven.

I love a thriller, but when you read a lot of them, the plot, rhythms and twists start to become predictable. This is not true of The Artful Anna Harris by Tracy Maton, in which one con artist meets her match and a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolds. Anna has created a new persona and life for herself in a charming English town, complete with the perfect fiancé, but one bad decision involving a handsome stranger (who is also not who he claims to be) puts everything (including her life) in jeopardy. Anna is very unlikable at first, but somehow, I found myself rooting for her. I admired author Tracy Maton’s ability to create flawed, compelling and surprising characters. If you love a thriller but feel a bit tired of them, this one feels like a shot of (very dark) espresso.

Visit Vikki VanSickle's website.

--Marshal Zeringue

James R. Benn

James R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II series, historical mysteries set within the Allied High Command during the Second World War. The series began with Billy Boyle, which takes place in England and Norway in 1942.

Benn's new novel is The Ninth Circle, the twenty-first installment of the Billy Boyle series.

Recently I asked the author about what he was reading. Benn's reply:

Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France. During the Second World War, it was the scene of a remarkable conspiracy of goodness. Local residents made the commune a haven for Jews and other refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. The refugees were hidden both within the town and in the countryside while some were escorted to neutral Switzerland. Precise numbers are impossible to determine, but estimates of the number of people sheltered in Chambon and its area range from eight hundred to five thousand.

I am researching this chapter in WWII France for a Billy Boyle novel, and I’m reading two accounts which differ greatly in their tone and approach (both are excellent). One of the challenges in reading for research is finding a book that hits the marks you’re interested in as an author. Sometimes a book looks good but when you get into it, the material is disappointing.

Not so with these two titles.

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There, by Philip P. Hallie.

This is perhaps the quintessential work on Le Chambon. It shows how quietly, peacefully, and in full view of the Vichy government and a nearby division of Nazi SS, Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy worked to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death. At the center is Le Chambon pastor André Trocmé, who serves this primarily Huguenot Protestant area. His wife, Magda Trocmé, and Daniel Trocmé, his cousin, are key players. André Trocmé was an ardent pacifist who did not shy from aggressively confronting evil. Hallie’s book works at almost a spiritual level. He provides broad details about the rescue activities but also illuminates the deeply held beliefs which drove Trocmé, and the villagers, to act as they did at such great risk.

Village of Secrets; Defying the Nazis in Vichy France, by Caroline Moorehead.

Village Secrets also tells the extraordinary story of Le Chambon and the surrounding plateau where a cluster of tiny, remote villages are bound together by a long and arduous history. Moorehead goes beyond Le Chambon and brings in a wider circle of activists, but what makes this book different from Hallie’s is the extraordinary level of detail about people and places. As an example, I knew that the hotel at the center of Le Chambon had been taken over by the Germans to house their troops. But in Village of Secrets Moorehead tells us that they were convalescent soldiers from the fighting on the Russian Front. We read about their daily routines and how, perhaps, they noticed the larger number of refugee children and did not report it. She also goes into the logistics of supplying hundreds of hidden refugees with food and documentation. The distribution of supplies and ration books was taken up by pères tranquilles, or the older, married men in the village who worked at their jobs during the day and supported the Resistance at night.

Details like these are meat on the bone for a writer.

Happy Reading to all!

Learn more about the Billy Boyle WWII Mystery Series at James R. Benn's website.

The Page 99 Test: The First Wave.

The Page 69 Test: Evil for Evil.

The Page 69 Test: Rag and Bone.

My Book, The Movie: Death's Door.

The Page 69 Test: The White Ghost.

The Page 69 Test: Blue Madonna.

Writers Read: James R. Benn (September 2016).

Q&A with James R. Benn.

The Page 69 Test: Proud Sorrows.

The Page 69 Test: The Phantom Patrol.

Writers Read: James R. Benn (September 2024).

The Page 69 Test: A Bitter Wind.

Writers Read: James R. Benn (September 2025).

The Page 69 Test: The Ninth Circle.

--Marshal Zeringue

Lara Stokes

Lara Stokes grew up in Northern Ontario and now lives and writes in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario. Her work has appeared in The Danforth Review, The Ottawa Arts Review, Burnt Toast (newsletter for The Writer’s Union of Canada) and has been shortlisted for the Toronto Fringe New Play Contest and Geist’s CanLit Short Fiction contest. In 2007 she completed an Honors BA in Theatre and Creative Writing at York University, where she was the recipient of the b.p. Nichol award and the Judith Eve Gewertz Award.

Stokes's debut novel is Midsummer Nights.

Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Stokes's reply:

I just finished Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley, a love story told through the soundtrack of the relationship. Set in the early 2000's, this was such a sweet spot for me, as the timeline coincides almost exactly with my university years, when I was very into music and had every back issue of SPIN magazine to impress boys with my musical knowledge. The book tracks the relationship between a music writer and the songwriter she inspires, and dips in and out of music trends of the time as well as classic 'deep cuts'. The author has created a great Spotify playlist to accompany - my only complaint is that I read this while camping, and didn't find the playlist until after reading. It made for a nice epilogue!

I also recently read We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman. It follows a woman at the end of her best friend's life, as they move through their final goodbyes and the many complex layers of grief that can happen before we lose someone. It is based on Newman's own experience of losing a close friend to cancer, and I read this very much on purpose as I have just been through a similar loss. In grief, there is often the desire to escape (and trust me, I am reading plenty to escape) but there was something very cathartic about going into the fire with fictional characters, living there with them, and giving space to my own grief. This book is incredibly sad but also so incredibly funny, scandalous, human and healing. Sometimes the right book is grace in your hands. (And if grief books are also your thing, you must read Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead by Mai Nguyen. Incredible.)

Curveball at the end to cheer things up: as per the above escape, I have been rewatching Fleabag, which has led me to read Fleabag: The Scriptures, the book version of the scripts with notes and essays from Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Part of my writing background is playwriting (my own book is set in the theatre) and having a strong foundation in theatre scripts has really influenced my own writing. It was great fun, then, to read the TV scripts of an adapted play, noting what changes from stage to screen to page. In any form, it's some of the weirdest, cleanest, funniest dialogue. We need more Phoebe!

Up next is Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser. Justice for Stepmothers!

Visit Lara Stokes's website.

--Marshal Zeringue

Sara Cooper

Sara Cooper is a novelist and an award-winning playwright-lyricist. She lives in New York with her husband John and their son Theo. Major awards include Richard Rodgers Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2022); ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack Yellen Award (2021); Grand Jury Prize, Barnstorm Media (2020); Jonathan Larson Grant, American Theatre Wing (2014).

Ravenous, her debut novel, was a Finalist for the 2025 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards.

Recently I asked Cooper about what she was reading. Her reply:

I'm currently reading Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi. It's about the horrors of war made literal. I am absolutely loving it so far. I had just finished Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls, which was also excellent, and I was actually planning to take a little reading break, because I was working on rewrites for my new novel and I didn't want to muddy the voice. But I was scrolling through the Horror and Weird Girl Lit corners of Bookstagram (basically the only parts of social media I actually enjoy) and someone mentioned that this book was about a stitched-up corpse that seeks revenge for those killed in the war in Iraq. I have never raced to buy a book so fast. So far, it's fantastic, gorgeously written and completely devastating.

Visit Sara Cooper's website.

My Book, The Movie: Ravenous.

The Page 69 Test: Ravenous.

--Marshal Zeringue

J.T. Ellison

J.T. Ellison is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty novels of psychological suspense, including the Lt. Taylor Jackson series, the Dr. Samantha Owens series, and numerous acclaimed standalones. She is the Emmy Award–winning cohost of A Word on Words, the literary television series on PBS. Over a twenty-year career, her work has earned widespread critical recognition, with titles optioned for television and published in thirty countries, and millions of copies in print worldwide. A dedicated voice in the writing community, she also publishes The Creative Edge, a newsletter and blog for writers navigating the craft and business of fiction. She lives with her husband and twin kittens—one of whom is a ghost—in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Ellison's new novel is You Know Why.

Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Her reply:

In my many years as a thriller author, there has been nothing quite as fun as Alice Feeney. I’ve read two of her books recently that absolutely bamboozled me. seeing other authors in my genre level up their craft and become deeper, stronger, more intense writers. One who I think is truly at the top of her game is The first was My Husband’s Wife, and the second was Rock, Paper, Scissors .

We’re talking first-class sleight of hand, which is an incredibly difficult move to pull off. It’s so much fun to set aside my own knowledge of the craft and get taken in by the story and the characters.

Feeney’s casts lie. They lie to one another; they lie to the reader. They are the most unreliable of unreliable narrators, and yet, you never feel cheated when the reveal happens. On the contrary, it’s usually a jaw-dropping how did I not see it moment, which is so much fun. The clues have all been laid out, a trail of breadcrumbs that, upon second reflection, are so incredibly obvious.

A master’s work, that.

The other book I read recently that truly moved me was The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. Sybil Van Antwerp is her own kind of unrelatable narrator. Told in an epistolary style, we only hear what she wants us to, and the mystery of her life and the ultimate acts of self-forgiveness made me weep. Well worth a few days of your reading life––it’s a love letter to words, vocabulary, and the enduring power of personal connection.

Visit J.T. Ellison's website.

The Page 69 Test: Edge of Black.

The Page 69 Test: When Shadows Fall.

My Book, The Movie: When Shadows Fall.

My Book, The Movie: What Lies Behind.

The Page 69 Test: What Lies Behind.

The Page 69 Test: No One Knows.

My Book, The Movie: No One Knows.

The Page 69 Test: Lie to Me.

My Book, The Movie: Good Girls Lie.

The Page 69 Test: Good Girls Lie.

Writers Read: J. T. Ellison (January 2020).

Q&A with J.T. Ellison.

The Page 69 Test: A Very Bad Thing.

The Page 69 Test: Last Seen.

--Marshal Zeringue