She may be Denmark’s favorite author, but the latest entry in her series of detective novels is disappointing. The Midnight Witness is a police procedural, and like so many other stories in that category, the cast is large. Other authors such as Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin, and Joseph...
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Democrats tend to act as though the greatest harm that results from all the recent monkeying around with voter registration and election mechanics is that the Republican Party gains an unfair advantage. That’s true, of course, as far as it goes. But what is often lost in the debate about...
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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Axis opens “the summer the stars began to fall from the sky.” Then, twelve-year-old “Isaac discovered that he could tell east from west with his eyes closed.” Yes, there’s something very unusual about Isaac, and as we make our way...
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If you read the marketing material, you’ll think that Prague Spring is an espionage novel. But it’s only that up to a point. More properly, the book is an historical novel set in Prague in 1968, when the reformist government led by Alexander Dubček departed from the path of hard-line...
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So, here’s the deal. Junior Bender chose to accept a cockamamie proposition to rob a deserted house for entirely too much money. Even knowing someone might try to kill him for taking the job. Junior and his girlfriend, Ronnie Bigelow, “were planning an operation to kidnap her...
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.