Meredith Doench just published her fifth crime novel, “Never Say Die.” Doench teaches creative writing and literature at a local university.

The Dayton region is a bicyclists' paradise.

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A serial killer is roaming the streets of Hollywood.

A double dose of Willy Vlautin the double threat: musical, and literary.

In what has become a Book Nook tradition another poetry duel: Shuly Cawood vs. Vick Mickunas.

S.A. Cosby is one of our leading crime novelists. I have interviewed him a number of times. I’ll ask him what writers he recommends and always receive the same response:

In 2018 the writer Gilbert King was in Florida attending a conference of trial judges. King has written widely about injustices, about people who have been sent to prison in states like Florida when t...

March Madness is just around the corner, soon the NCAA will announce the college basketball teams that will be playing in the tournament this year. What a perfect time to read a superb new book about ...

The story of a basketball star who almost wasn't.

This is quite possibly the first book ever published by a sheet metalworker.

Roger Hoover has spent over 50 years in the construction industry as a sheet metal worker. Some years ago he retired. More recently he was persuaded to return to his lifelong profession because there ...

My favorite crime novel of 2026 so far is this one.