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Thomas Olde Heuvelt — Echo (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 10, 2022 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Thomas Olde Heuvelt takes readers deep into the blizzard of his imagination in his book, Echo. Released in Dutch in 2019 and translated into English for release this week, the book represents excellent horror writing. It will chill you to the bone, because of its...

Viveca Sten — Still Waters (Sandhamm Murders #1) (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 15, 2021 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

Viveca Sten starts a new mystery series in Still Waters. Sten is Swedish and thus her story is too. First published there in 2008 and then translated to English in 2015, the Sandhamm Murders series is a sensation. Nine books are available in English, and there’s even...

Ayşe Kulin — Last Train to Istanbul: Dramatic WWII Story (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 22, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Well-loved Turkish author Ayşe Kulin illustrates another angle on the early years of World War II in her 2002 book Last Train to Istanbul. (Translated to English in 2013.) The story is set partly in Turkey and partly in the Nazi-occupied French cities of Paris and...

Book Review: The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 26, 2020 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

Marcus Goldman and Harry Quebert are New York-based writers in this mystery from Swiss-born Joël Dicker. But none of the action takes place in Manhattan. Instead it is set at Harry’s New Hampshire home, in the small town of Somerset. Goldman is a former student of...

Book Review: Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 27, 2019 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Kristin Lavransdatter is a Norwegian literature classic by Sigrid Undset. In fact, Undset is so revered that she won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928, after Kristin was published. But, let’s also clarify that this is actually a trilogy, now published as a 1100+...

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