Award-winning author J.F. Riordan has been called "a latter-day Jane Austen". Her mesmerizing literary fiction makes the Great Lakes region one of the characters in a continuing series. The North of the Tension Line books (North of the Tension Line; The Audacity of Goats; Robert's Rules; A Small Earnest Question; and soon, Throwing Bears for George) represent a sensibility that is distinctively Midwestern, even though the small town politics and gossip will be universally familiar. Riordan celebrates the well-lived life of the ordinary man and woman with meticulously drawn characters and intriguing plots that magnify the beauty and mystery lingering near the surface of everyday life.
Equally adept as an essayist, her writings are by turns insightful and personal; soulful and humorous, and belong at the bedside of anyone in search of the comfort and companionship of a humane voice She lives in Wisconsin with her husband and two German Shepherds.
