For years I’ve been a big fan of Joseph Finder’s work. He has written a slew of excellent crime novels over the years. (Buried Secrets and Paranoia were two of my favorites.) But Finder’s latest crime novel, The Fixer doesn’t measure up—it’s good, but far...
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Despite his superficial resemblance to Harry Hole, the policeman who chases criminals and his personal demons in many of Jo Nesbo’s earlier novels, Chief Inspector Simon Kefas is definitely his own man. The Oslo police department, though just as corrupt as it is in the Harry Hole books, also...
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It’s hard to imagine a more timely book than Water to the Angels, a book about the Los Angeles Aqueduct that appears in the midst of a drought in California of historic proportions. Framed as a biography of William Mulholland, who built and managed the Los Angeles Aqueduct that supplied...
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Late in the 1980s, the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank erupted in violent reaction to the Israeli occupation. These events, which in various accounts lasted from 1987 to 1991 or 1993, were known as the First Intifada. That term derives from an Arabic word meaning “shake...
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If you’re old enough to remember those space operas (otherwise called space westerns) that crowded the pages of the pulp sci-fi magazines in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, you might have been a fan, since you were certainly young enough to enjoy them. I didn’t. I thought even then that the...
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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.