In the Fjällbacka series of detective novels, a brilliant young police investigator teams up with a local true crime author to take on the most baffling murder cases that crop up in that small Swedish coastal town and the nearby countryside. The novels comprise one of the best written and most...
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When I was growing up in Ohio in the 1950s, one of the biggest stories in the news was the execution of the Soviet atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. They had been convicted of helping spirit scientific details about the construction of the atomic bomb from American scientists and engineers...
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Will artificial intelligence be the death of us? Possibly. There are those who consider AI one of the greatest threats looming in our future. The doomsayers include Bill Gates, Elon Musk, the late Stephen Hawking, and others who can’t be easily dismissed. But the debate centers on how AI...
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The modern history of Iran and the US is fraught with conflict. Today, Americans vilify the ayatollahs who have governed Iran since its revolution in 1979. We’re all too likely to forget (assuming we ever knew in the first place) that the Iranian Revolution was in large part a consequence of...
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If the rise of one of the world’s most populous countries and its fraught relationship with the West are mysteries to you, these thirty books about China will help. It’s widely believe that if the 20th was the American Century, the 21st may well prove to be China’s. There is good...
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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.