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Articles by Amber Keller
From the Fields: Ride On
Ask a farmer about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his/her daily schedule, and he/she may say- not much very much. It is business as usual when it comes to tending to crops and livestock. Already socially-isolated and situated in an outdoor setting, cows need to be fed and milked and crops need to be planted and harvested. Mother Nature’s cycles continue on, and farmers work to make the best of it.
Book Review: The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld
By Thomas Pluck September 30, 2019 The Butterfly Girl Rene Denfeld Naomi Cottle Series October 1, 2019 The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld is the second book in the Naomi Cottle series—the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children—and a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried.
From the Fields: Who's Your Favorite Team?
The fall season is a wonderful celebration of changing colors, bountiful harvests, family time, and of course, football - whether it’s rooting for your local high school team or our beloved Green Bay Packers. It’s an exciting time! As it relates to our farm loan clients, there should be some excitement for them in building and rooting for their own farm business team. Farm business teams can help ensure long-term success, navigating all the seasons of our agricultural economy.
Book Review: City of Omens by Dan Werb — Criminal Element
By Larry Clow June 21, 2019 City of Omens Dan Werb June 4, 2019 For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city’s lifeline is brutally severed. City of Omens, Dan Werb’s investigation of the root causes of the high rate of death among the women of Tijuana, opens with a breakneck trip across the city’s highways and into a camp hidden away in the Tijuana River Canal.
Revisiting The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Sweden invades the Edgar Awards! Learn more about 1971's Best Novel! For a Scandinavian crime fiction devotee like yours truly, no author’s legacy looms larger than that of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, whose Martin Beck books are largely considered the launching point for the Nordic Noir sub-genre. Writing in the 1960s and 1970s, husband and wife duo Sjöwall and Wahlöö broke new ground in the crime genre.
Book Review: A Beautiful Corpse by Christi Daugherty
A Beautiful Corpse Christi Daugherty Harper McClain Mysteries March 12, 2019 In Christi Daughtery’s A Beautiful Corpse, a young woman is found murdered, and all three suspects are men who once claimed to love her. With a familiar yet dangerous face watching her every move, Harper must unravel this mystery before it’s too late. A Beautiful Corpse is the second book in Daugherty’s series to feature Savannah crime reporter Harper McClain, and it’s my first introduction to the plucky heroine.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
By Philip Jett March 22, 2019 Revisit John Le Carré's classic novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold—the 1965 Edgar Award winner for Best Novel. The Cold War had grown hot. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev considered the young U.S. president John F. Kennedy to be weak and fearful of war. Consequently, the Eastern Bloc constructed an 87-mile wall of concrete and barbed wire that divided Berlin, Germany, into eastern and western sections in 1961.
Review: The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones is a debut novel and the most twisty, addictive, and unputdownable thriller you’ll read this year. Sandie Jones’s The Other Woman is a shape-shifting novel that, much like its characters, never truly is what it seems. It starts as a lighthearted and humorous tale of newfound love and then slowly spirals into a tense, maddening tale of deception and repressed anger that has an unexpected, manipulative character at its core.
Review: Bone on Bone by Julia Keller
Bone on Bone by Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller is the eighth book in the beloved Bell Elkins series, which sends readers headlong into the thick of a mystery as young as today’s headlines—but as old as the mountains that hold these lives in a tight grip. In this emotionally packed mystery, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller adds another fantastic entry to the Bell Elkins series.
Review: A Stone’s Throw by James W. Ziskin
A Stone’s Throw by James W. Ziskin is the sixth book in the Ellie Stone mystery series, where the young newspaper reporter investigates a double murder at an abandoned stud farm near glamorous Saratoga Springs in 1960s’ Upstate New York.
Review: The Way I Die by Derek Haas
Ten years after Columbus―one of the most original anti-heroes in contemporary fiction―first exploded onto the scene in The Silver Bear, Derek Haas delivers another riveting thriller with The Way I Die, promising heart-pounding action and shocking twists until the very last page. Tough guys in crime fiction fall mostly on opposite ends of a spectrum.
Review: Penance by Kanae Minato
Four women, haunted by a childhood trauma. What really happened that day—and what followed, for each of them, in the years after? Penance by Kanae Minato is a dark tale of revenge and psychological drama that will leave readers breathless. A lot of crime fiction focuses on the crime itself. However, there is a lot of fertile ground for outstanding fiction in the ripples created by crimes as serious as rape and murder. This dark space is where Kanae Minato’s Penance resides.
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