They all reminded me of Ahab . . . looking for their whales” — the “Whites” of the title in Richard Price’s disturbing new novel about NYPD cops out of control. The Wild Geese are a tightly knit cluster of five dedicated New York police officers, each one with his (or...
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Mix the CIA, the FBI, secretive European banks, and a diabolical large-scale cyber theft, add long-hidden secrets and exotic Continental settings, and, with a little luck, a lot of skill, and an intimate knowledge of Western Europe, you may be able to fashion a hard-driving thriller that’s...
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I confess. Suspense abounds in The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, but it got so far under my skin that I couldn’t stop until I’d read the book all the way through to the end, costing myself hours of sleep. With as much as I read, this doesn’t happen very often, even...
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If you pick up this book expecting to return to Dublin in the 1950s in the company of the pathologist-detective Quirke, as I did, you may find it disorienting to realize that you’re in contemporary New York City with a wholly new cast of characters. Yes, this is quite another sort of story...
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In this timely and important book, veteran Los Angeles Times homicide reporter Jill Leovy drills down to the political and cultural realities that explain what she calls “a plague of murders among black men . . . [who represent] just 6 percent of the country’s population but nearly 40...
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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.