Top 2024 Top 10

As of this writing, I have read 109 books this year – my most ever in a single calendar year!  Of those 109, I’ve had the misfortune of picking only 10 standouts. Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan Claire Keegan’s quiet novel about a coal merchant’s courageous actions affected me on a deep level.…

CITY OF DREAMS

With CITY OF DREAMS, Don Winslow delivers his penultimate novel; the second book in his Danny Ryan Trilogy. After escaping Rhode Island, Ryan takes up residence on the West Coast hoping to put the mob life behind him. However, as we all know, it isn’t that easy. Ryan has made a lot of powerful enemies…

City On Fire

With the recent announcement by Don Winslow that he will be retiring from writing to fully focus on his political activism, I panicked in thinking that maybe he had abandoned his new trilogy. Don was quick to assure his readers that not only have the next two novels already been written, but they’re scheduled to…

Broken

With his new book Broken, author Don Winslow returns with a collection of six novellas. In the title story, Winslow travels down to New Orleans to focus on a family of cops when tragedy strikes.   A vengeful cop looks to inflict his wrath on the powerful, elusive drug dealer responsible.  Broken reads like John…

The Border

Twice now, Don Winslow believed he was out. After finishing 2005’s The Power of the Dog, he’d felt he said his piece on the war on drugs.  Then, nearly a decade later, he sat down at a keyboard and started typing what would become his follow-up to The Power of the Dog, The Cartel.  After…