Reading a police procedural typically demands a great deal of patience on the part of the reader. That’s natural enough. Police work itself is said to be mostly drudgery. Some police-centric novels avoid the tedium of unrelieved digging and culling through often-irrelevant detail by shifting...
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The title character and protagonist in Ethan of Athos is Dr. Ethan Urquhart, a physician who works at one of the many Rep (Reproductive) Centers on Athos, a planet inhabited only by men. A small group of misogynists who assigned all blame to women for evil in the universe founded Athos two...
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If you’re an Agatha Christie fan and can at least tolerate science fiction, you might enjoy Mur Lafferty’s Nebula-Award nominee Six Wakes. I didn’t. This sci-fi mystery illustrates the worst of both genres. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes As a mystery story, Six Wakes is as...
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John Lescroart surprises with a courtroom drama in which the suspense is all about whether Dismas Hardy’s new case will ever get into a courtroom. Poison is the 17th novel in Lescroart’s first-rate series about the San Francisco defense attorney who is also an ex-Marine, a bartender,...
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Indelible, the fourth novel in Karin Slaughter’s Grant County series, takes Dr. Sara Linton and Chief Jeffrey Tolliver back more than a decade to the time before they married. Though the contemporary action is set in Grant County after their divorce, flashbacks to that earlier time are the key to...
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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.