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1 week ago | 
skjbollywoodnews.com | Liz Moore |Clemence Michallon |Ruth Ware |Tana French
Thriller books have a reputation for being fast-paced and twisty, but some of the greatest additions to the genre are actually slow-burn stories with great payoff. While fast-paced, suspenseful thrillers make for engaging reads, slower storytelling lends itself to better setup. It often lays the groundwork for a book’s ending twist, allowing the author to build out the world with clues and red herrings that contribute to the big revelation.
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1 month ago | 
entertainment-mag.com | Tana French |Chloe Benjamin |Colson Whitehead |Scott Lynch
Whenever I talk about fantasy, readers hear it with a capital F. They conjure images of wizards and magic, dragons and fictional maps. And while there certainly is a section of the market devoted to tales with those traditional trappings, I imagine fantasy as far less monolithic — not a single furnished room but an entire house, full of strange wings and less-visited corners.
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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Sally Rooney |Tana French |Donal Ryan |Dónal Ryan |Emma Donoghue
Ireland, despite its modest geographical size and population, is an unmatched literary engine of the world. Yes, storytelling may be a common trait among Irish people, but that is not the only factor contributing to the wealth of Irish literature. A landscape rich with libraries, literary magazines, bookshops, and festivals ensures reading and writing are parts of everyday life in Ireland.
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2 months ago | 
kerrydougherty.com | Tana French |Kerry Dougherty
Closer to home, some of us thought that nothing could embarrass the commonwealth more than Sen. Tim Kaine’s weird fixation on Pete Hegseth’s sex life during Hegseth’s confirmation hearing last week. Hold my beer, said Sen. Mark Warner who on Wednesday embarked on two days worth of rude, petulant often moronic questioning of two nominees: RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard. He didn’t ask a single probative question.
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2 months ago | 
kerrydougherty.com | Tana French |Kerry Dougherty
Despite efforts from Democrats and the legacy media to portray Donald Trump’s pause on federal spending as an act of “chaos,” in reality, it was enlightening. After all, the money being spent, er, wasted, is OURS, not the government’s. Take this moment from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s first briefing: The Biden administration earmarked FIFTY MILLI ON DOLLARS to buy condoms in Gaza. You read that right.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
kerrydougherty.com | Tana French |Kerry Dougherty
After a nearly flawless transition and inspirational inauguration, Donald Trump’s team committed its first own goal. On Tuesday, someone on the staff agreed that the president, the vice president and their families should attend a morning prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
kerrydougherty.com | Tana French |Kerry Dougherty
Never in my life have I looked forward more to a Monday. It’s Sunday night and many of us rejoice knowing this is the last time we will sleep with Joe Biden in the White House. At long last, his four failed years as president are at an end. But we should never forget what Biden did to us during that time. The censorship. The vaccine mandates. The inflation. The lawfare. The open borders. The gangs. The mask mandates. The influence peddling. The botched retreat from Afghanistan.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
kerrydougherty.com | Tana French |Kerry Dougherty
It’s official. Virginia Democrats have declared war on families. And they’re just warming up. So far, in the nascent General Assembly session, they’ve introduced two appalling anti-family measures. More to come, no doubt. The first is a proposed constitutional amendment that’s an abortion enthusiast’s wet dream. It would enshrine in Virginia’s constitution an unlimited right to abortion.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
kerrydougherty.com | Tana French |Kerry Dougherty
Few television productions are more harder to watch than Senate confirmation hearings. Given the virulent strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has infected the left, yesterday’s Pete Hegseth hearing was a festival of Democrat histrionics. We watched leftist women reduced to unstable, screaming harpies. The men - led by Tim Kaine - showed themselves to be classless hypocrites. Sickening. All of them.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
kerrydougherty.com | Tana French |Kerry Dougherty
I’ve got to ask: Whose bright idea was it to have Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sing John Lennon’s anthem to secular humanism, “Imagine,” at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral? In Washington’s National Cathedral of all places. I’m guessing it was a member of the Carter clan. A clueless member. Then again, maybe this ode to atheism and open borders was one of Jimmy’s favorites. There are reports that these two country singers warbled the most overrated song of the 20th century at Rosalynn’s funeral too.
