Tom Henighan: 5 books

People in love (Blue Menus, Prime Time), cheating spouses (Storm Warnings, Cold Nights), people near the breaking point ( Intruders, Famine, Gemini, Visiting Mother), women looking for peace of mind, or God, or finding miracles in daily life (Confirmation, The Well), baffled country folk (Famine,...

These stories transport the reader to worlds touched by strangeness but occupied by people very much like ourselves. “Snared by the fine silk sheets of those Parisian and Swiss hotels, he enjoyed a succession of female bodies that became springboards carrying him into the cold, fiery regions...

Private eye Sam Montcalm is hired by a wealthy developer and former arms manufacturer to check out his wife, who may be having an affair with the noted political journalist Jed Paul Mehta.Sam prepares to follow Mehta to LA, and to investigate the journalist’s connection with the beautiful...

The time is December, 1837, and the Daly family, Irish immigrants, are struggling to survive on a farm in Upper Canada (as Ontario was then known). The country is in turmoil thanks to exploitation of the poor, land swindles, and the suppression of freedom by the wealthy Tories. One day Old Mr. Moss,...

Jack Toland, 17, has traveled to England with his mother, Cara Peters, who plays “Montana Black” in a well-known TV adventure series. They are to meet Jack’s father, Dr. Charles Toland, a “TV scientist” who has been investigating destructive gold mining practices in Eastern Europe. The family...