Not your average private investigator, Claire uses some unusual detection methods to solve a crime in atmospheric New Orleans. A fine mystery, planned as the first in a new series.
Not your average private investigator, Claire uses some unusual detection methods to solve a crime in atmospheric New Orleans. A fine mystery, planned as the first in a new series.
Memoirist, novelist, essayist, author of short stories and stories for children; in any form, Fox is a master of concise language and telling details.
This collection of nine stories features privileged young women in New York, whose lives of apparent success mask their insecurities. Smooth writing and clever variations on the author’s theme.
Conventional, dutiful Karen meets and is mesmerized by free spirit Biba. They share a bohemian, self-indulgent summer that ends with death. Ten years later, we see a very different Karen. A haunting, atmospheric first novel.
A father writes a (book-length) letter to his estranged daughter, hoping for her understanding and telling her the events of his life: he is orphaned, he falls in love with his adopted cousin, she falls in love with someone else. This heartbreaking story is set in Nova Scotia during World War II. Norman has been nominated twice for the National Book Award.