book reviews

Just before her beloved grandmother dies, New Yorker Ellen Branford promises her she’ll deliver a letter to the old woman’s...

When restless and free-spirited Alice returns home from her far-flung journeys around the globe just in time to say goodbye to her...

A novel account of the illicit affair between Sigmund Freud and his sister-in-law.

Despite all their precautions, two college friends obsessed with safety are kidnapped by a lunatic and held captive for...

Elin Hilderbrand, the author of The Island, A Summer Affair and Beautiful Day, which came out this spring, is something of an expert on summer books and shares her fave vacation reads.