John R. Lindermuth is an old newspaper dog who continues to write and is also a practicing genealogist. He is the author of 12 novels, the latest being Sooner Than Grace, a historical mystery, and Practice to Deceive, fifth in his Sticks Hetrick mystery series set in a fictional rural community near Harrisburg, Pa. More information is available at http://www.jrlindermuth.net.

Although he's often tempted to sing, he never touches an instrument; he can't even tune the radio without getting static.

Reviews by John include:

MUSIC:

Debbie Adshade
Into Thunder

Barbez, with Velina Brown
For Those Who Came After: Songs of Resistance from the Spanish Civil War

Amir Beso
Fatamorgana

Big Leg Emma
The Color of Wind

Boundary Water Boys
Acoustic Crossroads

Breadfoot, with Anna Phoebe
Tea with Leo

Lisa Cameron
End of Blue

Bob Campbell
Ditchflowers

Liz Carlisle
Five Star Day

Judy Cockwell
Beyond

Rebecca Cole
Bloom

The Crofters
Hold My Beer While I Kiss Your Girlfriend

Linda Draper
Keepsake
Modern Day Decay
One Two Three Four

El Nino Machuca
Buscando tu Sur

Gloria Estefan
Oye Mi Canto: Los Exitos

Pedro Luis Ferrer
Natural

Ashleigh Flynn
A Million Stars

Carolyn Gaines
Beware of My Dog

The Great American Gypsies
Before I Had a Red Tomato

Sarah Hallman
Sarah Hallman

Zac Harmon
The Blues According to Zacariah
From the Root

Vasco Hernandez
Luz De Otra Manera

Emily Herring
My Tears Will Be Relieved

Hesperus
Early American Roots

Emma Hill
The Black & Wretched Blue

Joji Hirota & the Taiko Drummers
Japanese Taiko

Victor Hugo
Tropical Gangster: Salsa From Venezuela

Tom Hunter
Here I Go Again

Jacanda
Back to the Sky

Dallas Jones
Wherever You Roam

Dave Justo
Aura

Marcel Khalife
Caress

James Krueger
Bluebird in the Snow

Paula Lammers
A Blanket of Blue

Lead Belly
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Louis Ledford
Adios King

LeonVest
So Blue

The Levins
My Friend Hafiz
Trust

Lilt
Little Falls

Sheila MacDonald
Half Light
Tangle of Trees

Kate MacLeod
Blooming
Breakfast

Janiva Magness
Bury Him at the Crossroads
Do I Move You
Original

Emily Maguire
Keep Walking

Angelyna Martinez
Labor of Love

Chad McAnally & Shawn McBurnie
Blackbird from the Willow Sings

Liz McNicholl
Grand Central Station

Bob Michel
The Farther Shore
The Oysterman's Ball

Antoinette Montague
Pretty Blues

Mountain Thyme
A Smile at the Door

Niamh Ni Charra
Cuz

Suzzana Owiyo
Mama Africa

Billy Price
East End Avenue

Susheela Raman
Music for Crocodiles

Red Rooster
Dose

Oscar Reynolds
Rio de Luz/River of Light

Bonnie Rideout
Celtic Circles

Christine Rosholt
Detour Ahead

Rumgumption
Cross the Roaring Main

Sabrina & Craig
One Home ... One Heart

Maggie Sansone
Dance Upon the Shore

Shir
Israeli Songs

Rumen & Angel Shopov
Soul of the Mahala

Sabrina & Craig
Green

Beck Sian
Unfurling

Slipstream
Waterbound

Stonecircle
Winter Sky

Svart Kaffe
Tretar

Tango Siempre
Tango Siempre

Pat Travers
Blues on Fire

Tullamore
Wild & Wicked Youth

The Unseen Guest
Check Point
Out There

various artists
Bar Room Blues

Victor & Leo
Nada es Normal

Patricia Vonne
Guitars & Castanets

Watermelon Sugar
Something to Savor

Judith Weikle
Pirates, Poets & Patriots

Wingdale Community Singers
Spirit Duplicator

Liz Zelvin
Outrageous Older Woman

Zingaros
Gitango


BOOKS:

Jean-Pierre Alaux & Noel Balen
The Winemaker Detective

Kate Atkinson
Shrines of Gaiety
Jackson Brodie #3: When Will There Be Good News?
Jackson Brodie #6: Death at the Sign of the Rook

Norman L. Baker
Braddock's Road: Mapping the British Expedition from Alexandria to the Monongahela

Fred Bean
Pancho & Black Jack

Ed Bernik
Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest

Baron Birtcher
Knife River

BJ Bourg
Hollow Crib (A Magnolia Parish Mystery)

Don Bruns
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Darrel Bryant
Geronimo's Bones

James Lee Burke
Flags on the Bayou

Casey Cep
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud & the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Judy Clemens
Leave Tomorrow Behind

Jon Clinch
The General & Julia

Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Water Dancer

Christopher Conlon, editor
Poe's Lighthouse

Michael Connelly
Crime Beat

Bernard Cornwell
Killer's Wake

Rich Curtin
Manny Rivera Mysteries #10: Cast a Cold Eye

C.M. Curtis
Return of the Outlaw

Martin Dugard
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

Anne K. Edwards
The Last to Fall

Joseph J. Ellis
The Cause: The American Revolution & Its Discontents, 1773-1783

Mary Anna Evans
Plunder

George Franklin Feldman
Cannibalism, Headhunting & Human Sacrifice in North America

Tana French
The Hunter
The Searcher

David Fulmer
Valentin St. Cyr Mysteries #1: Chasing the Devil's Tail

Tess Gerritsen
Body Double

Arthur D. Graeff
Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania Peacemaker

Elly Griffiths
Ruth Galloway Mysteries #14: The Locked Room

Davis Grubb
Night of the Hunter

Jeff Guinn
War on the Border

Jane Harper
The Lost Man

Paul Andrew Hutton, editor
The Custer Reader

Jamie James
The Snake Charmer

Anna Jansson
Strange Bird

Paulette Jiles
News of the World

Dan Jones
Essex Dogs
Essex Dogs #2: Wolves of Winter

Mari Jungstedt
Killer's Art

Seth Kantner
Ordinary Wolves

Crystal Hana Kim
The Stone Home

Stephen King
Holly

R.J. Koreto
The Turnbull Murders: A Historic Homes Mystery

Gabe G. Kubichek
Gold & Where You Find It

Jane Langton
Homer Kelly Mysteries #16: The Escher Twist

Peter Lewry
I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle

Valerie Martin
The Ghost of the Mary Celeste

James McBride
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James A. McLaughlin
Bearskin

Robert S. McPherson
Dineji Na 'Nith

Deon Meyer
Benny Griessel #7: The Dark Flood

Nicholas Meyer
The Return of the Pharaoh

Candice Millard
The River of Doubt

Magnus Mills
The Restraint of Beasts

Margaret Mizushima
Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #5: Tracking Game
Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #6: Hanging Falls
Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #7: Striking Range
Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #8: Standing Dead
Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #9: Gathering Mist

Lance & James Morcan
Fiji
The Ninth Orphan

Dallas Murphy
Rounding the Horn

David Nuffer
The Best Friend I Ever Had

Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing

Helen Oyeyemi
The Icarus Girl

Lin Pardey
Bull Canyon

James Patterson
The Thomas Berryman Number

James Patterson & Peter de Jonge
Beach Road

Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Nautical Chart

Gregor Pratt
Dragon's Eye

Diana & Michael Preston
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind

Margaret Redfern
Flint

James P. Redwood
Two Ships

Peter Rennebohm
French Creek

Edmund Richardson
The King's Shadow

Cara Robertson
The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Peter Robinson
Before the Poison

M.J. Rose
The Reincarnationist
The Venus Fix

J.K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy

Edward Rutherfurd
China
New York
The Rebels of Ireland

Riley Sager
The Only One Left

Stacy Schiff
The Witches: Salem, 1692

Terry Shames
Guilt Strikes at Granger's Store

Hampton Sides
Blood & Thunder

Gary E. Smith
A Collection of Short Stories & Poems

Wilbur Smith
On Leopard Rock

Daniel Stashower
The Beautiful Cigar Girl

Charles Todd
Racing the Devil: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

Ruth Ware
The It Girl

Steve Weber
The Home-Based Bookstore
Plug Your Book
Sell On Amazon

David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Winter Counts

Simon Winchester
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Pacific: Silicon Chips & Surfboards, Coral Reefs & Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, & the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

John Yamrus
Doing Cartwheels on Doomsday Afternoon

Scott Zesch
The Captured