Maren Longbella
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Review: Where are missing Indigenous women, asks novel ‘The Bone Thief’?
Fiction: Vanessa Lillie’s followup to “Blood Sisters” is compelling.
October 15, 2025
Review: Killer strikes a nursing home in overly long novel
Fiction: “The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre” gets bogged down in the details.
September 25, 2025
Review: She leaves her husband for do-it-yourself witness protection
Nonfiction: “She’s Under Here” is a memoir by a woman who took her kids and ran.
September 10, 2025
Review: A mystery, from ‘This Is Going to Hurt’ author Adam Kay
Fiction: A doctor tries to recover from bad behavior, and solve a murder, in “A Particularly Nasty Case.”
September 9, 2025
Review: There’s a lot of love in Ohio-set novel ‘Buckeye’
Fiction: It’s been touted by Ann Patchett and, now, the Star Tribune.
August 28, 2025
Review: Book shows why we, like our ancestors, have a thing for Mars
Nonfiction: “The Martians” is an entertaining look at how we view the red planet has changed over the years.
August 19, 2025
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'The Bewitching,' from 'Mexican Gothic' writer, is short on scares
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of "Mexican Gothic" and "Silver Nitrate," is stingy with the fear factor in overly complicated "The Bewitching."
July 8, 2025
Review: Tragedies pile up in Wally Lamb’s new novel, but will readers care?
Fiction: “The River Is Waiting” is a conventional white-dude-goes-to-prison book with the expected plot points.
June 10, 2025
Review: Stephen King’s Holly Gibney is back in ‘Never Flinch’
Fiction: Unfortunately, the “Mr. Mercedes” investigator is not in peak form this time out.
May 20, 2025
Review: What happens when a man accidentally writes his own obituary?
Fiction: “I See You’ve Called in Dead” is a comic novel about tragic events.
March 25, 2025
Review: Did you hear the one about the woman who was determined to be a clown?
Fiction: Kristen Arnett’s protagonist is passionate about her goal. No matter what anyone thinks.
March 10, 2025
Review: Civil War-era ‘Jackal’s Mistress’ finds Chris Bohjalian hitting repeat
Fiction: A Confederate woman takes in a Union soldier in romantic thriller.
March 4, 2025
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