Since her first novel (Still Life) in 2005, Louise Penny has seen nearly all her books nominated for literary awards — and won most of them. How the Light Gets In is the tenth of the Canadian mystery writer’s eleven novels featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du...
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Charles Cumming has been hailed by some reviewers as a worthy successor to the dean of spy novelists, John Le Carre. He’s good, he understands spycraft, and occasionally he’s almost great. But I wouldn’t go that far. In Cumming’s most recent outing in the realm of suspense,...
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She convened the first representative assembly in Russia’s history, anticipating the creation of the ill-fated Duma a century and a half later. And she came to be known as Catherine the Great, no mystery to anyone who reads this masterful book about her. A contemporary of Montesquieu and...
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Every five years now the former South African journalist Rennie Airth brings out another police procedural about John Madden, an English police detective whose life spans the two World Wars. In The Reckoning, Airth’s fourth book, Madden has long since retired to his farm in the south of...
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For years now, Henning Mankell has been telling us he’d written the very last Kurt Wallander story. Now, another one has turned up. Mankell explains in an Afterword that he’d actually written An Event in Autumn many years ago as a bonus for Dutch readers. Since he was recently asked...
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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.