Book Review: One Day You’ll Burn (The Strand Magazine proudly presents this review of One Day You’ll Burn.) One Day You’ll Burn manages to achieve something few novels manage to succeed at doing: create a palpable sense of atmosphere and place. Not only that, but it manages to do so without being heavy-handed or overblown.  Focusing on […]

  Book Review: Jane Goes North By Chris Chan   (The Strand Magazine proudly presents this review of Jane Goes North.) Jane Goes North, by Joe R. Lansdale, is a comic, picaresque novel where the title character goes on a road trip to her estranged sister’s wedding.  As is often the case, the story is more […]

Book Review: One More Lie  (The Strand Magazine proudly presents this review of the book One More Lie.) The murder of a child is a horrible tragedy.  When a child is murdered by other children, that’s horrific.  These visceral socio-cultural reactions form the backbone of One More Lie, the story of a convicted killer who […]