by Will Donnelly | Apr 8, 2014
In October 2002, David Stuart MacLean found himself in a train station in Hyderabad, India without knowing how he’d gotten there. He didn’t recognize his surroundings, and even more frightening, he didn’t recognize himself. A police officer tapped him on the...
by Will Donnelly | Feb 7, 2014
Laurent Binet’s HHhH follows Operation Anthropoid, the Allied plot to assassinate SS-Obergrüppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich by Slovak warrant officer Jozef Gabčík and Czech staff sergeant Jan Kubiš. The assassination succeeded, if not exactly as planned, though...
by Will Donnelly | Oct 25, 2013
To summarize the plot of Jacob M. Appel’s second novel, The Biology of Luck, is difficult, in large part because while there is the arc of a story within it, that arc is danced around and played upon by such a wild menagerie of characters and events that it’s...
by Will Donnelly | May 6, 2013
In May 2007, while Gregory Martin played with his two young sons in Albuquerque, his parents were having a fierce argument at their home in Spokane, Washington. When they stopped quarreling, Martin’s father went upstairs and swallowed a bottle of pills, landing...
by Will Donnelly | Apr 11, 2013
In Knock Knock, Suzanne McNear tells the story of her own life, but she does so under the guise of March Rivers. This leaves the reader to guess at just how much of this story has been changed to protect those involved or even to enhance the events...
