Tag: Book Review
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Lone Star Book Reviews
Former Texas newspaper reporter and editor Rick Treon’s first completed work of fiction is an impressive, realistic dark thriller with an unnerving conclusion that wisely leaves a pathway open for a follow-up novel. In Deep Background, Levi Cole, the chief investigative reporter for a Dallas newspaper, is forced to leave his high-profile job…
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Lone Star Indie Review: When the Men Were Gone
The year is 1944 and the Brownwood Lions may have to cancel their football season because their coach has just been killed in France. As World War II rages on, the men are either gone, in the process of leaving, or have returned from away, worse for wear or in a pine box. Tylene…
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Lone Star Review: WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A VOICE LIKE THAT?
“When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened.” —Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton The late Honorable Barbara Jordan grew up in Houston’s Fifth Ward. “She may have looked like other kids … acted like other kids,” Chris Barton writes. “But she sure didn’t sound like other kids. Not with that voice of hers.”…
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Lone Star Review: THE WINDOW TRAIL
In Big Bend National Park, the Window Trail is a 5.5-mile, out-and-back pathway that draws hikers, birders, and others to its rugged beauty. In J J Rusz’s engrossing, well-crafted new novel, “the Window” is other things, as well. It becomes the scene of an infamous suicide that is spotlighted in a best-selling book,…
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Lone Star Review: A Good Girl
Fifty-two-year-old Grace Reiter is returning home to South Texas, “a place she spent a lifetime running from,” as her father, Henry, “the last surviving patriarch of a chaotic gene pool,” lies in a hospital bed dying from colon cancer and a heart “shriveled from disease and disappointment.” Grace is the middle child, the dutiful…
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Lone Star Review: WELCOME HOMELESS
‘Notice it doesn’t say, “Feed the hungry, unless you think he might just have the munchies … Or, “Clothe the naked, unless he doth get drunk on Jack Daniel’s.”’ Alan Graham was struck by inspiration in 1998: food trucks. He envisioned a truck to feed Austin’s homeless where they live. Graham recruited five…