Daneet Steffens

Oct 23, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Daneet Steffens

Paula Hawkins’s latest novel, “The Blue Hour,” opens with a pair of non-narrative documents: a museum’s pellucid and lyrical description of an exhibited piece, swiftly followed by an email from a forensic anthropologist alleging that that sculpture contains human bone. The fact that the sculpture is by reclusive artist Vanessa Chapman, who long ago had squirreled herself away on a remote Scottish island, only serves to heighten concern around the possible issue.

Jul 2, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Daneet Steffens

The house first captured Jane Flanagan’s attention when she was a 17-year-old narrator-guide on a sunset cruise off her coastal Maine hometown, the same year she received a prestigious scholarship for a pre-college program at Bates College: “Jane glimpsed a house, pale purple, very old, with turrets and elaborate trim painted green in some spots and blue in others. One upstairs shutter dangled precariously. The window beside it had been smashed. A white curtain billowed out from within.”In J.

May 30, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Carole V. Bell |Leland Cheuk |Lauren LeBlanc |Daneet Steffens |Kate Tuttle |Chris Vognar

Whether you love fiction, nonfiction, mystery, or romance, we’ve got you covered! The Globe’s annual summer reading preview features 75 books coming out this summer that we think you’ll want to slip into that beach bag, backpack, or picnic basket. fiction Interactive content by Flourish Nonfiction Interactive content by Flourish Romance Interactive content by Flourish Mystery Interactive content by Flourish Ready to get your summer movies on? Here’s your guide.

May 8, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Daneet Steffens

As the energetic debut novel “The Ministry of Time” opens, our narrator, a British-Cambodian civil servant based in future London, is interviewing for what might be the job of a lifetime (she’ll be tripling her salary, for one thing).

Apr 28, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Daneet Steffens

In 1938, on a small, isolated island — it’s only 3 miles long and 1 mile wide, a 5-mile boat ride off the Welsh coast that stretches to 10 in bad weather — 18-year-old Manod looks after her younger sister and her father, a lobster fisherman.