Oslo, August 2015. An old woman named Turid chances across an entry in an auctioneer's booklet. It's a bracelet with a minimum bid of one hundred thousand kroner, or about $10,000 today. "It is forty-eight years since she last saw her bracelet." So Turid digs out the...
Oslo, August 2015. An old woman named Turid chances across an entry in an auctioneer's booklet. It's a bracelet with a minimum bid of one hundred thousand kroner, or about $10,000 today. "It is forty-eight years since she last saw her bracelet." So Turid digs out the...
She ran a modest haberdashery shop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Fredericka Mandelbaum, an "upright widow, philanthropic synagogue-goer, [and] doting mother of four," was also the boss of the country’s most notorious crime syndicate. And when Pinkerton detectives...
A deranged serial killer haunts the precincts of Tudor London in Revelation, the fourth entry in C. J. Sansom's series of Matthew Shardlake mysteries. And a fellow barrister at Lincoln's Inn who is Matthew's best friend is the first victim to come to light. Enraged,...
Sergeant John Rossett is "a good man just doing a bad job." A war hero, he returned to his prewar job as a cop in London only to be pressed into service in a distasteful job. The Nazis rule Britain, and they've forced him to work as a "Jew-catcher" in the Office of...
Uncle Nathan is a gangster, and Daniel's father—a judge, no less—wants him to stay as far away as possible from his crooked brother. Then the problem solves itself. A disagreement—the kind you don't walk away from alive for long—persuades Uncle Nate to leave Berlin...
A century ago the United States government shut down the fledgling spy service the Wilson Administration had established to help wage the Great War. And America was out of the espionage business until 1942, when FDR authorized the formation of the OSS. Today, the...
David Ignatius writes a column twice a week on foreign affairs for the Washington Post. That's his day job. But he moonlights as a spy novelist. In eight conventional spy thrillers published from 1987 to 2011, he detailed the give-and-take in the intelligence game...
Humanity's search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been underway ever since the advent of radio early in the 1900s. But only in recent decades has the work taken on a systematic, broad-spectrum search involving a global network of SETI scientists and volunteers....
Few remember them today, but in the 1930s there were Nazis in America. Lots of them. And tens of millions of Americans supported them in the depths of the Depression. The Silver Shirts. German-American Bund. Friends of the New Germany. And Father Charles Coughlin's...
Historians frequently write of "the Long Nineteenth Century" from 1789 to 1914. In The First World War, the acclaimed military historian John Keegan shows how dramatically the events of 1914 to 1918 capped that period. The "Great War" led to the dismemberment of the...
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Sergeant John Rossett is "a good man just doing a bad job." A war hero, he returned to his prewar job as a cop in London only to be pressed into service in a distasteful job. The Nazis rule Britain, and they've forced him to work as a "Jew-catcher" in the Office of...
MYSTERIES & THRILLERS
Oslo, August 2015. An old woman named Turid chances across an entry in an auctioneer's booklet. It's a bracelet with a minimum bid of one hundred thousand kroner, or about $10,000 today. "It is forty-eight years since she last saw her bracelet." So Turid digs out the...
NONFICTION
She ran a modest haberdashery shop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Fredericka Mandelbaum, an "upright widow, philanthropic synagogue-goer, [and] doting mother of four," was also the boss of the country’s most notorious crime syndicate. And when Pinkerton detectives...
Commentaries
Over the past fourteen years, since I began posting book reviews, I’ve read and reviewed more than 450 mysteries and thrillers. A fair number are set in Asia, principally (but not exclusively) in India or China. Some, of course, are standalone efforts. But most are...
The first espionage novels appeared early in the 19th century with the publication of James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy in 1821 and The Bravo in 1831. A few other notable titles were published in the ensuing decades, and Sherlock Holmes got into the act...
If you've been reading my reviews for very long, you're aware that the World War II era holds special fascination for me. This might have something to do with the fact that I was born then—in fact, about six months before the USA entered the war. Or maybe it's just...
Here you'll find my (admittedly incomplete) guide to the most outstanding detective series set in countries all across the world. It's a work in progress. Expect to see more added here from time to time. Below I’ve listed 30 outstanding detective series set outside...
I was seven years old when I first became aware of politics. It was 1948, and the presidential race between Harry Truman and Thomas Dewey was underway. With all the wisdom of a seven-year-old, I picked the obvious winner, Dewey. We all know how that worked out. Maybe...
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