Novelists have been turning out stories about crime since the early 1800s, and private detectives entered into the picture not long after. But police investigators didn’t gain a firm hold in the mystery and suspense genre until well into the twentieth century. And it wasn’t until the...
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Both U.S. critics and the British public seem to love Philip Kerr, but I can’t quite figure out why. Oh, Kerr’s good, all right. I can understand why they like him. It’s just that love seems a little over the top. Kerr’s plotting is complex and full of tension and ultimate...
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Graham Gooding is head of operations at Warlock & Co. He’s been with founder David Warwick longer than anyone else and is Warwick’s trusted go-to guy. So, when top coder Nessie Locke produces a promising new algorithm, Warwick turns to Graham to test it. According to Nessie, the...
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For thousands of years the Han people who settled China’s heartland around the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers have contended with people of other ethnicities on what is now the nation’s periphery. For extended periods, marauders from that region—Mongolians, Manchurians, and Muslim Turkic...
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Military historians point to Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) as the first modern Special Forces. Formed in Egypt in 1941 by David Stirling as a paratroop unit, the SAS later spawned the Special Boat Service (SBS) for maritime operations. Both organizations sometimes traded personnel with...
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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.