Strange. After reading her earlier books, the last thing I would have expected is humor. Yet Kate Atkinson’s latest, Transcription, is surprisingly funny. Well, maybe witty is a better word. This is British humor, after all. Dry humor. The sort of thing most Americans frown through....
Read More
It’s Christmastime in Cheshire, and the Duncan Kincaid-Gemma James household is relocating from London to visit his parents and his younger sister. 13-year-old Kit (Duncan’s son) and 5-year-old Toby (hers) and the boys’ two dogs are off to the countryside. There, they’ll...
Read More
Throughout the Cold War, the “special relationship” between US and British intelligence was uneasy. In the 1950s, the defection of the Cambridge Five devastated MI6—and undermined American trust in the British. When Kim Philby fled to the Soviet Union in 1963, both MI6 and the CIA lost...
Read More
The “lady cop” of the novel Lady Cop Makes Trouble was a real person named Constance Kopp. She lived from 1878 until 1931. Kopp was hired as an “under-sheriff” in Bergen County, New Jersey, during World War I and served for about a year until a new sheriff was...
Read More
J. K. Rowling is off to a roaring start in a second career as a detective novelist with the fourth entry in the Cormoran Strike series. As is well known, the author of the Harry Potter books writes these mysteries under the name Robert Galbraith (which defeats the purpose of a pseudonym). Rowling...
Read More
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.