A Garden Fed by Lightning by Marshall Moore

Litchfield Reviews A Garden Fed by Lightning by Marshall Moore for the Colorado Review

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Colorado Review book review by Nicholas Litchfield: Throughout A Garden Fed by Lightning, the third story collection from Marshall Moore, the quality of the writing is consistently sharp, continually impressive. Infused with an element of the fantastical, many of the stories, initially appearing straightforward and grounded in reality, veer off into unexpected, outlandish territory, and, more often than not, characters are not what they seem.

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Book review: The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith

Litchfield Reviews The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith for the Lancashire Post

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Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: Love and marriage, freedom and loneliness, and risk and misadventure are some of the themes in the latest instalment of prolific, bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith’s delightfully witty 44 Scotland Street series.

The Bertie Project, the eleventh novel in the immensely popular series focused on the lives of a small community of people inhabiting a somewhat Bohemian corner of Edinburgh’s New Town, finds many of the streets best-loved residents buffeted by the winds of change.

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Book review: World, Chase Me Down by Andrew Hilleman

Litchfield Reviews World, Chase Me Down by Andrew Hilleman for the Lancashire Post

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Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: Colourful, real-life American outlaw Pat Crowe, the most wanted man in America at the turn of the century, is masterfully resurrected in the epic, action-packed Western novel World, Chase Me Down.

Andrew Hilleman’s riveting debut chronicles the incredible exploits of a hardened criminal who gained notoriety in 1900 for kidnapping and holding to ransom the teenage son of a meatpacking tycoon in Omaha and got away with $25,000 in gold.

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Massive Cleansing Fire by Dave Housley

Litchfield Reviews Massive, Cleansing Fire by Dave Housley

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Colorado Review book review by Nicholas Litchfield: Despite its leanness, Dave Housley’s latest story collection, Massive, Cleansing Fire, is full of gloriously witty moments and uniquely fascinating characters and situations. Made up of individual stories, each one ending in a fire or focused on accounts of those caught up in a wildfire apocalyptic event, this is a creative, provocative, and refreshingly different sort of book.

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Book review: Death and the Naked Lady and The Lady and the Cheetah_John Flagg

Litchfield Reviews Death and the Naked Lady and The Lady and the Cheetah by John Flagg in the Lancashire Post

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Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: John Flagg, pseudonym of American crime writer John Gearon who died in 1970, delivers a barrage of murder and mayhem in two fabulous 1951 mysteries… with the added bonus of a suspense-packed short story.

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Book review: The Knife Slipped by Erle Stanley Gardner

Litchfield Reviews Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Knife Slipped for the Lancashire Evening Post

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Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: After a forty-six year lull, the frosted office door of ‘B. Cool, Investigations’ swings open once more as the lovable private eye team of ‘hard as nails’ boss Bertha Cool and her ‘little runt’ operative, Donald Lam, set to work on a tough new case in The Knife Slipped.

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Children of the Country by Abigail R. Shaffer

Litchfield Reviews Children of the Country by Abigail R. Shaffer for the Colorado Review

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Colorado Review book review by Nicholas Litchfield: True to its billing as an “unflinching debut,” Abigail R. Shaffer’s stylish, provocative Children of the Country is as hard-hitting as many of its cold-blooded, barbarically uncouth male characters who dominate its vast, untamed wooded landscape.

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