Author Suanne Schafer

Tyrannosaur Canyon is the first in the Wyman Ford series. Though the cover leads the reader to think this is a reboot of Jurassic Park, it is not. Rather than dealing  with the de-extinction of lost dinosaurs through DNA manipulation, Tyrannosaur Canyon is a contemporary thriller based on fossil hunters, the hunt for the one great dinosaur find, and...

Relic is the first book in the twenty-four book Pendergast series. It is exactly what the hype promises: a melange of mystery, thriller, horror and science fiction set in the Museum of Natural History in New York City. Starting with the murder of two young boys, the bodies start piling up with amazing rapidity, all with deep chest wounds and missing their heads. Offi...

The Deadly Tea is the fourth in the Invisibles series by Rachel Dacus. They can be read as standalone, however. The series begins when two sisters, Saffron and Elinor inherit a house, on the western coast of Italy, which is haunted by the ghost of Percy Bysshe Shelley. This sets up a relationship between the two sisters and the ghost. Saffron realizes that not only c...

I read Tim O’Brien’s powerful novel The Things They Carried, my favorite Viet Nam story, about ten years ago and finally got around to reading If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, his memoir on his time just before and during his term in Viet Nam. If I Die in a Combat Zone is told in a straightforward, linear fashion startin...

No Friend to This House is Natalie Haynes’s retelling of the story of Jason and the Argonauts, but with Medea as the central character. It is told in the points of view of almost anyone (human, god, animal, ship) who had a part in the story, such as Alcimede, Jason’s mother; Aphrodite; the Argo; the Naiads; etc; as well as Medea herself. 

The Argo, built with ...