Kazuo ishiguro, alan furst , cormac mccarty are good examples of writers with the ability to make you feel a place by reading h...  Read More

Kazuo ishiguro, alan furst , cormac mccarty are good examples of writers with the ability to make you feel a place by reading how their characters live within it.  Read Less

Not so much a crime novel as much as a young lady dealing with the death of her friend and trying to make sense of why her frie...  Read More

Not so much a crime novel as much as a young lady dealing with the death of her friend and trying to make sense of why her friend lost her way.  Read Less

I had some quibbles with the pacing and plot, but overall this was a gripping debut, murky and gritty, pulling the reader throu...  Read More

I had some quibbles with the pacing and plot, but overall this was a gripping debut, murky and gritty, pulling the reader through the streets of houston and down into its darkest corners.  Read Less

It’s all here: the bayous, ship channel refineries, memorial park, river oaks, montrose, rudyard’s, and, always, real estate, i...  Read More

It’s all here: the bayous, ship channel refineries, memorial park, river oaks, montrose, rudyard’s, and, always, real estate, in a city “that never stopped, it reached and reached,” where money exerts a “gravitational pull.  Read Less

She has created a page-turner with a pitch-perfect conclusion.

She has created a page-turner with a pitch-perfect conclusion.  Read Less