A fully satisfying murder mystery set in post-war Europe
A review of The Bridge of Sighs, by Olen Steinhauer. It’s a deeply satisfying novel that matches complex characters with a credible story in a well-researched setting.
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Author: Mal Warwick
This Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust
On a hill named Mount Herzl in Jerusalem lies Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Within this moving memorial to the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust lie a synagogue, a children’s museum, and research facilities as well as a garden commemorating the Righteous Among...
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Travis McGee stumbles into a massive financial fraud
He calls himself a beach bum. Travis McGee lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale and only works when he’s running out of money. Then he becomes a “salvage consultant,” helping someone who’s been robbed blind. He’ll steal back the money or valuables—for half the...
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How cities have built civilization and shaped human history
When I was born in 1941, about six months before the United States entered World War II, the world’s three largest cities were New York, Tokyo, and London (which had been #2 before the Blitz). None of the three housed even close to 10 million people. As of 2025, the three largest are...
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Russian police confront diamond smuggling and murder in Siberia
The independence of Chief Inspector Rostnikov’s cozy little squad is on the line. “The Office of Special Investigations was at the very bottom of the Moscow police force. The Office had been created solely as a receptacle in which to dump unsolvable and politically sensitive cases...
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