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Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (April 13, 2010) ISBN-10: 0061688541 ISBN-13: 978-0061688546 reviewed by Steve Weatherbe I am just starting on The Templar Knight, which is the second book of Jan Guillou’s Crusades Trilogy to be published in English, just this year. The Road to Jerusalem came out maybe two years ago [...]
reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopès The award winning action-drama novel In-Sight, written by author Gerard D. Webster, stands out among other Catholic books in this genre. The book begins with Carrie Hope’s dad’s last words to her before dying in the hospital: ”I love you as my own.” Carrie’s parents were killed by a drunk driver [...]
Reviewed by John Murphy There are a lot of things I could say about City of Thieves. I might comment on its gritty evocation of a specific time and place (1942 Leningrad under Nazi siege), its likable characters, gallows humor, or its sturdy plot. The salient point is this: I stayed up half the night [...]
reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopes In his debut novel, The Sacred Bones, author Michael Byrnes brings us a fascinating mix of myths, legends, and themes of today in a controversial story full of intrigue, conspiracy, murder, modern technology, and religion–the perfect combination for a breathtaking story. The book opens with the story of the Knights of the [...]
reviewed by John Murphy Neverwhere is an entertaining dark fantasy from celebrated writer, Neil Gaiman. The wild and whirling world he creates from the material of urban London — where unsuspecting folks can fall “between the cracks” and end up in the surreal London Below — owes a debt to GK Chesterton’s delightful and outlandish [...]
reviewed by John Murphy Anthony Hope’s Prisoner of Zenda is a classic swashbuckler in the fun-loving tradition of Rafael Sabatini (Captain Blood, Scaramouche). The book’s enduring success has led to several stage and screen adaptations, including a popular version from 1937 starring Ronald Colman. It’s easy to see why Prisoner has captured so many imaginations. [...]
reviewed by John Murphy The Colour of Blood is a tight, page-turning Catholic thriller in the Graham Greene tradition. The opening sequence hits the ground running: Cardinal Bem, head of the Church in an unnamed Soviet bloc country, is being chauffered back to his residence when “He saw, peripherally, a black car racing very close [...]
reviewed by Rachel Murphy In the fictional South American Republic of Costaguana, the small town of Sulaco is sheltered from the rest of the state by mountain and plain—near the edge of the sombre Gulfo Plácido whose still waters are protected from the ocean gusts—“as if within an enormous semicircular and unroofed temple open to [...]
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