Review by Mack Hassler “Therefore the land mourns… Together with the wild animals” Hosea 4:3 This first novel by Hinman has captured my interest so completely that I do not want to stop reading. Her editor at Superior Book Productions is Tyler Tichelaar, well-known for his own many books. In…
Reviewed by Sharon Brunner Mike Cronan tells a story of greed, corruption, and murder in his “Yooper Murders of Mackinac County: A Sheriff Joseph Francois LaVake Mystery.” The story takes place in St. Ignace and the surrounding areas, such as Moran and Brevort. At one time, the author lived in…
Review by Mack Hassler “One Day, about noon, going toward my boat, I was exceedingly surprised, with the print of a man’s naked foot on the shore…. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) In To Be Marquette, a fine mystery novel by the young writer Sharon Dilworth, who has three collections…
Review by Mack Hassler “It is a poetry where the world becomes writing and language becomes the double of the world.” Octavio Paz I think Terri Martin is a clever and witty writer who comprehends the dynamic link of language to her world, not only as…
Review by Tyler R. Tichelaar I recently reviewed Jennifer S. McGraw’s nonfiction history book The Unsolved Mysteries of Father Marquette’s Many Graves. That book and this one may both have been inspired by the recent repatriation and reburial of Father Marquette’s (alleged) bones at St. Ignace in 2022. While McGraw…
‘Anatomy of a Murder’ Lives On Review by Rick Gould Robert Traver’s Anatomy of a Murder has enjoyed many lives. There was the actual Upper Michigan murder the summer of ’52. The case inspired the 1958 best-selling novel. The book became a classic 1959 film. There was a 2009 documentary….
Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Karen Dionne’s “The Wicked Sister” is a novel filled with suspense and murder nestled in a wilderness setting with no phone service. The first chapter begins with Rachel envisioning a scene with her holding a rifle and killing someone she loved, and part of the story appears…
Review by Mack Hassler I think a writer develops a kind of cockiness that is helpful when he or she is accepted by the “teams” of publication in a culture. The great poet Virgil was close to the Emperor Augustus. Writers need patrons and mentors, and they need the teamwork…
