E. Lynn Harris and RM Johnson. Simon & Schuster, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4391-7809-6
Cobi Winslow is a powerful attorney who, having been adopted by a wealthy family, has lived a privileged life. However, discoveries of a long-lost, incarcerated twin brother, Eric, and a distressing clause in his parents' will set in motion a series
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R. M. Johnson, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1600-5
Johnson's sequel to The Harris Men
picks up five years after the previous book ended, reintroducing readers to guilt-plagued patriarch Julius Harris and his three estranged sons: Austin, Marcus and Caleb. It tries to explore issues of...
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R. M. Johnson, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2973-9
After turning out several relatively staid novels about the Harris family, Johnson changes directions with this randy sexual soap opera, in which half a dozen young Chicago professionals try to bed-hop their way to the perfect partner. The story...
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R. M. Johnson, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4455-8
Johnson's latest (after Love Frustration) is an urban soap opera of sex, drugs, crime and deceit—and even true love—weaving together the dramatic, if predictable, story lines of various Chicago denizens. Livvy Rodgers, a nurse's
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R. M. Johnson, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (321p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8519-3
Love—or as one of the characters in Johnson's latest soap opera calls it, "plain, stupid, make-you-disrespect-the-hell-out-of-yourself love"—makes people do silly things. But even that fails to explain the absurd lengths to...
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R. M. Johnson, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (303p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4040-3
In 1856, two groups of Mormon emigrants using handcarts to transport their belongings got a disastrously late start on their westward trek to Utah. Unexpected October blizzards and the lack of restocked supplies left them stranded in Wyoming, coping
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R. M. Johnson, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (307p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9626-4
The crazed conclusion of Johnson's Million Dollar trilogy opens with a literal bang. Freddy Ford shoots millionaire Nate Kenny and Nate's ex-wife, Monica, at Nate's Chicago mansion and kidnaps Nate's three-year-old adopted son,...
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R. M. Johnson, Author Karen Hunter $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4391-0149-0
Attempting to replicate the success of Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, this dubious self-help from novelist Johnson (The Million Dollar Divorce) might as well be called Act like a Doormat, Think Like a Cavewoman. Johnson...
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R. M. Johnson, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-684-84470-1
If situation tragedy were a television genre, Johnson's bittersweet and gently didactic first novel could be made into its flagship show. The three Harris boys--Austin, Marcus and Caleb--try with various success to live their adult lives as they...
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RM Johnson. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, $15 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8057-0
There’s no end to the mischief in this fourth installment of Johnson’s popular Million Dollar series, a revved-up revenge plot set in an urban jungle where aching poverty and fabulous wealth are stuck in a ruthlessly complicated life-and-death dance.
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