Tag: #netgallery

• Windy City Blues

  In her fun very readable Windy City Blues (Berkley 2017; $16), Chicago author Renee Rosen again takes another slice of the city’s history and turns it into a compelling read. Rosen, who plumbs Chicago’s history to write such books as Dollface, her novel about flappers and gangers like Al Capone, and What the Lady Wants…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 15, 2022

  Amazon, American History, Architecture, Audiobooks, Authors, Berkley, Blues, Blues Highway, Chicago, Fiction, History, Jewish, Judaism, Music, Musician, Random House

  #bestsellingbooks, #books, #netgallery, #ReneeRosen, Architecture, Authors, Blues Highway, Chess Brothers, Chicago, Civil Rights, Dollface, Fiction, fun, Jazz, Music, musicians, New Orleans, Renee Rosen, Willie Dixon, Windy City

• Finding hope while studying penguins

  

  I’ve always felt that the natural world can bring us healing in many ways, but I decided a story about healing through penguins would be extra-special.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 22, 2020

  Adventure, Animals, Fiction, Humor

  #HowthePenguinsSavedVeronica, #netgallery, Fiction, Hazel Prior, Humor, Penguins

• Thriller tracks conspiracy’s twists and turns

  

  Parental rage at kids’ sporting events is nothing new, but Maggie Russell takes it to a new level when, during her son’s last Little League game before the playoffs, she screams at the coach to give her son some playing time. Even Agatha, her good friend, thinks Maggie’s gone overboard, but it gets worse in…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 21, 2020

  mystery, Thriller

  #netgallery, #TheSilentConspirary, Harper Paperbacks, Jack Logan series, L.C. Shaw, Mystery-Thriller

• New mystery explores New York in the 1910s and 1990s

  

  Patience and Fortitude, the marble lions gallantly standing at the steps of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan, were only 2 years old when Jack Lyons, along with his wife and two children, moves into a large apartment hidden away on the library’s mezzanine floor. It’s all part…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 20, 2020

  Culture, Historic Architecture, mystery

  #netgallery, #TheLionsofFifthAvenue, Dutton, Fiona Davis, Historical Fiction, New York City, The Lions of Fifth Avenue, Women's Suffrage

• Pretty as a Picture

  

  An isolated island, two unsolved murders two decades apart, and a megalomaniacal director are all part of the job for Marissa Dahl, a talented film director who finds herself in the middle of it all.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  April 22, 2020

  Fiction, mystery, Psychological Suspense

  #netgallery, #prettyasapicture, Elizabeth Little, mystery, Pretty as a Picture, Psychological Suspense