AT HOME IN THE DARK—Preview #9—Jim Fusilli

“I went east to Greenwich and turned south on familiar cobblestone, heading toward the silver Twin Towers, their crowns hidden in low-lying clouds.” That’s the last sentence of the penultimate chapter of Closing Time, Jim Fusilli’s debut as a novelist, and it...

AT HOME IN THE DARK—Preview #6—N. J. Ayres

Noreen Ayres is an accomplished poet as well as an Edgar-nominated writer of crime fiction. She’s best known for her Smokey Brandon mysteries, now getting a well-deserved second life under the imprint of Brash Books. Of Smokey’s debut, A World the Color of...

AT HOME IN THE DARK—Preview #4—Laura Benedict

Here’s what Publishers Weekly had to say in a starred review of Laura Benedict’s new novel, The Stranger Inside: “Kimber’s complicated personality and unusual family life drive the ever-twisting, surprise-filled plot. Angry and jealous as a child and...