“Rural Astronomy” by Georgann Eubanks

Reading Georgann Eubanks’s Rural Astronomy (EastOver Press June 2025) felt like revisiting a hometown after a long absence—some of the landscape has changed, some of the houses sport new shutters, some of the memories are bittersweet, and the territory is both comforting and strange. It’s no wonder that Eubanks leads readers through a literary journey […]

“Pretty Girls Get Away With Murder” by Brandi Bradley

  Pretty Girls Get Away With Murder (Rumor Mill Press 2025) is not your mama’s police procedural, folks.  In this sequel to  Local Monsters, author Brandi Bradley has crafted a particularly riveting mystery by going heavy on character development instead of hitting the reader—boom, boom, boom—with chronological facts and forensics. Told from alternating points of […]