It’s 1845. The US Congress has approved the annexation of Texas and admitted Florida to statehood. The New York Evening Mirror has just published “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. The Great Famine is raging in Ireland, driving hundreds of thousands of emigrants to US shores....
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At the outset of this puzzling spy story, we meet a teenage girl named Vera who may or may not have accidentally attempted suicide. It’s October 1957. Vera lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her mother. The two do not get along. At all. Soon, we’re introduced to a young woman named...
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The eleven books in Mick Herron’s Slough House series are the best known of the eighteen novels he has written to date. The series follows the screw-ups and misfits of Britain’s MI5 who have been warehoused at a location distant from the agency’s London headquarters and left in...
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Mike Hayden is the former Director of the NSA and the CIA and a retired four-star US Air Force general. He is a Republican. Under normal circumstances, you’d expect such a man to support any Republican President. But these aren’t normal times. They haven’t been for the past three...
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The ingredients of a top-notch thriller include: an opening scene that grabs attention; believable characters who act in plausible ways; a steady drumbeat of revelations that build suspense; and a fiendishly complex plot that is only resolved as the novel comes to a close. The latest thriller from...
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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.