A FARMER’S MEMOIR AND MANIFESTO: a nice mix of common sense, family history, and heritage farming techniques.

MARVELOUSLY PLOTTED HISTORICAL mystery has gorgeous 1920s details and a fierce, enchanting heroine. B PLUS

THE IMPERSONATOR
Minotaur Books
2013

THRILL-A-MINUTE NOVEL MIXES science fiction, action, and suspense. Tight plot with lots of twists and turns! B PLUS

THE CURE
Forge Books
2013

WITTY, SASSY COZY mystery with a funky rural Florida setting, high society shenanigans. Lots of fun! B PLUS

A SECONDHAND MURDER
Coffeetown Enterprises, Inc.
2013

WITTY, SASSY COZY mystery with a funky rural Florida setting, high society shenanigans. Lots of fun!

WONDERFUL AS EVER, the great Agatha Raisin detects again in one of her best English village mysteries yet. B PLUS

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMEONE DEAD (AGATHA RAISIN MYSTERIES)
Minotaur Books
2014

THE IRISH REBELLION OF 1641, and the impact its events (and their interpretation) have had through centuries. B PLUS

THE SHADOW OF A YEAR: THE 1641 REBELLION IN IRISH HISTORY AND MEMORY
University of Wisconsin Press
2013

ENCHANTING AND INFORMATIVE “time traveler’s guide” to Elizabethan England packs in lots of facts, lots of fun. B PLUS

THE TIME TRAVELER’S GUIDE TO ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
Viking Adult
2013

COMPELLING DYSTOPIAN FUTURE noir focuses on rebels scratching out a living without mandated brain implants. B PLUS

NON-COMPLIANCE: THE SECTOR
Grimbold Books
2013

Paige Daniels’s NON-COMPLIANCE: THE SECTOR starts with a great premise. In her imagined dystopian future, governments mandate high-tech neural implants as a way to make social processes, from economics to national defense, move more smoothly. Those who reject the technology are exiled to a Non-Compliance Sector, a combination ghetto, refugee camp, and frontier settlement.

Set against this intriguing backdrop, Daniels creates a complex outlaw heroine. Shea Kelly is a tough lady, a skilled computer and electronics hacker, and a fiercely loyal friend. She’s ready to fight when she needs to, which in the rough world of the Non-Compliance Sector is often, but she’s also capable of love, trust, and even yearning. It says a lot for Daniels’s skill that she’s found new twists to put on the noir hero(ine)’s outsider code, and the nuances of Shea’s rebellion and resistance are compelling.

NON-COMPLIANCE: THE SECTOR is a fast-paced read that delivers plenty of action along with its intriguingly imagined world. And it has a sequel, NON-COMPLIANCE: THE TRANSITION, for those wanting further Shea Kelly adventure!