by Howard Leighton | Sep 28, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
After having worked at her father’s well-known law practice for three months following a stint in the New York District Attorney’s Office, Ellen receives a text from her younger sister, Charlotte, to meet at a local diner for the “news.” Charlotte reveals that her...
by Howard Leighton | Sep 12, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Western
The Western Star is the most recent novel in the long running Longmire series. The book is presented in two parts, with the narrative shifting between the past and present. In the present, the sheriff of Absaroka county, Walt Longmire, travels to Cheyenne Wyoming to...
by Howard Leighton | Aug 3, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks, Humor
There is an extensive range of beverages from non-alcoholic to alcoholic of which one can enjoy and become a connoisseur. Perhaps the one expert and authority most have a vague familiarity with is the sommelier, who is knowledgeable about the world of wines, spirits,...
by Howard Leighton | Jul 20, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Robert Logan Worth is a lawyer in the corporate division of a very significant law firm in the Los Angeles basin, Santa Monica. He has been working there for five years as an associate since finishing law school when he is called into a conference by one of the senior...
by Howard Leighton | Jun 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, LGBTQ+
In July, 2004 Susan Faludi was the recipient of an e-mail from her father. Since her parents’ divorce in 1977 there had been only a few contacts of short duration between Susan and her father. The e-mail contained photographs labeled “Stefanie” who was in...