Kahn's latest legal thriller sets his series protagonist (and narrator) against a Goliath law firm and a crew of ex- and neo-Nazis in an intricate St. Louis civil suit. A secretary's Continue reading »
Both tough-minded and kind, Rachel Gold struggles with two difficult cases in Kahn’s enjoyable eighth mystery featuring the St. Louis attorney (after 2002’s Trophy Widow). First of all, Rachel is Continue reading »
At the start of Kahn’s engaging ninth mystery featuring lawyer Rachel Gold (after 2013’s The Flinch Factor), a security guard finds the broken body of Sari Bashir, a young attorney at St. Continue reading »
Equal parts rollicking adventure, existential and spiritual quest, and coming-of-(middle)-age tale, this stand-alone set in 1994 from Kahn includes a cameo appearance from series lead Rachel Gold Continue reading »
Kahn’s 10th mystery featuring St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold (after 2014’s Face Value) is more law-school textbook than legal thriller. The eponymous dead hand is an archaic term that refers Continue reading »
Todd debuts with a stirring chronicle of trans and gay trailblazers in Weimar Germany who were persecuted by the Nazis. In 1933 Berlin, Berthold “Bertie” Durchdenwald, an Continue reading »
In Passeron’s beautiful and sorrowful debut autofiction, he attempts to end his family’s silence over a relative’s death from AIDS decades earlier. Passeron grew up rarely Continue reading »
Folk (Out There, a story collection) fuses Moby-Dick with J.G. Ballard’s Crash for a blistering debut novel about a woman’s sexual and mortal obsession with airplanes. “Call me Continue reading »
Many of the stories in this explosive and taboo-busting collection from Sorokin (Blue Lard) are set against the backdrop of Soviet-era repression. The tales are populated by Continue reading »