Dining alone one night in a high-end Paris brasserie a boring accountant named Daniel finds himself seated next to the French President, Francois Mitterrand. And when the President leaves the restaurant without his headgear, Daniel seizes the opportunity

In her new novel “Quiet Dell,” Jayne Anne Phillips draws upon a real-life multiple murder case as the basis for a riveting story of a con man and his victims. In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a widow and mother of three children, is lonely an

As he tells the story, William Peter Blatty rented a cabin in Lake Tahoe in early 1968, to start a novel based on a true story he’d heard while an undergraduate at Georgetown University. It was a terrifying story of demonic possession. Never mind t

It is 1915 when Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, in Thomas Keneally‘s novel “The Daughters of Mars.” They carry a guilty secret with them as they leave the family farm, and althoug

Some bodies just won’t stay buried. J.P. Beaumont, the homicide detective protagonist in twenty previous J.A. Jance novels, is back for a twenty-first outing – but this one is a trip back in time. But not exactly a class reunion. In “Se

There aren’t many times in life that you get the chance to do something that is not only fun and inspiring but that puts you in close proximity to the world’s best thinkers, doers, creators, leaders, and heroes. Rarer still is the chance to k

A mild, albeit overcast, weekend in the nation’s capital helped attract tens of thousands to the National Mall for the 13h annual festival. And late-day rains didn’t dampen the enthusiasm. Readers from all over the Mid Atlantic and beyond flo

A mysterious hit-and-run victim sets off an avalanche of drama in the new Kathy Reichs novel “Bones of the Lost.” The more she digs into the teenager’s death, the deeper forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is thrust into the murky and

What can one of the world’s greatest surfers teach us about faith, courage, creativity, and determination? Lots. A number of years ago the legendary Shaun Tomson came up with a set of simple lessons about life that he called The Surfer’s Code

From the first moment he took to a stage — and played Bill Montoe’s mandolin — at age six, Ricky Skaggs has been delighting audiences with his unique mastery of country and bluegrass. Born and raised in eastern Kentucky, Skaggs hit his