John Mort

Sandpebbles

Fiction

“Historicals writer Hickman turns in rather a morose romance with Sandpebbles about March Longfellow, who became a widow after the somewhat questionable death of her husband, and who grieves that she didn't truly love the man.”

The Amber Photograph

Fiction

“Stokes' Amber Photograph features a character who is a pun: Amber McAlister. She left North Carolina long ago under mysterious circumstances; she has had a hard time of it out on Puget Sound but at last shows signs of pulling her life together. Meanwhile, back in North Carolina, Amber's younger sister, Cecilia, stumbles onto an amber photograph of Amber that looks like herself, and she begins to press her mother and the man she has always thought of as her father for details. When her mother reveals a bit more of the secret, Cecilia heads for Seattle. The reader will have guessed the truth of Cecilia's origins long before Stokes teases out her last clue, but the McAlister women are appealing enough to carry the story.”

The Lazarus Trap

Fiction

“Bunn has comfortably made the transition from evangelical to mainstream readers, and his popularity shows no sign of abating.”