Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: Books Reviewed

  • By Any Other Name

    Jodi Picoult is a great writer. Her sentences are impeccable. Her stories intrigue. We seem to have the same interests/obsessions. And sometimes she goes a bit overboard with her research. When I learned her latest novel was about how Shakespeare is really a woman, well, I was upset. Not that old argument again…I’d been hearing…

  • Her Name in Lights

    I am writing from Florida where I shall begin my mission to read real books again. I brought a few with me, although I did have one final full priced Kindle book I traveled with, a memoir I really liked. Cassandra King was married to a preacher and lived the life of a parish wife…

  • Christmas Reading

    So far this holiday season (I started before Halloween this year) I’ve read ten Christmas novels. My very favorites are the classic “sweet” Regency romance novellas of Mary Balogh. She’s been reissuing these and I’m collecting them all over again on my Kindle. My top pick for holiday reading so far is A Christmas Bride,…

  • A Deep & Twisty Mystery

    My latest review for A Woman’s Wisdom, of thriller Concealment by Rose Edmunds, is up. Page turner alert!

  • Bones & Whispers

    A new review is up on A Woman’s Wisdom. This one’s a psychologist thriller, one of my favorite genres. If you like Tana French and Gillian Flynn, you’ll like Catherine Gault.