For a guy who made his living for more than thirty years by writing letters and mailing hundreds of millions of copies of them, you might think I’d be familiar with the story of the US Postal Service. Unaccountably, I knew little before I read journalist Devin Leonard’s compact and...
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I’ve read a lot of detective fiction. Hundreds of novels, for sure. Maybe thousands. And most of those books have been in series by a much smaller number of authors. My experience over the years has been that an author’s efforts late in a series are all too frequently disappointing....
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It’s 1946. Captain Minor Jackson has just mustered out of the OSS, which had been disbanded one month after Japan’s surrender in World War II. Jackson was looking for an easy way to make money — a lot of money — when a chance encounter with a Romanian dwarf named Nicolae...
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When two rural police officers arrive in a snowstorm at an isolated house in the Quebec countryside to investigate a double murder, both quickly fall victim themselves. A retired Montreal City investigator, Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars, receives a visit from his former partner and an unknown...
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At times it seems as though about a dozen people run the federal government. They change jobs from one administration to the next, occasionally drop out to work in academia or industry for a time, but then pop up again when another President comes along. At their level — the cabinet and...
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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.