Author: Mal Warwick

Michael Connelly’s latest: another thoroughly satisfying police procedural

Michael Connelly’s latest: another thoroughly satisfying police procedural

Posted by | Dec 29, 2011 | , | 0 |

A review of The Drop, by Michael Connelly. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). LAPD detective Harry Bosch is assigned an especially difficult case involving apparently botched DNA analysis and a twenty-year-old rape and murder. No sooner has he begun digging into the mystifying circumstances of the DNA specimen than the Chief’s office insists he take on a high-profile new case: a City Councilman’s son has apparently committed suicide.

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Mass media and the fate of the world

Mass media and the fate of the world

Posted by | Dec 12, 2011 | , | 0 |

A review of Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World, by Maria Armoudian. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). In Kill the Messenger, political scientist and radio broadcaster Maria Armoudian ably examines the central role of mass media in human affairs over the course of the 20th Century.

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Deborah Coonts on murder and mayhem in Las Vegas (it’s all fun)

Deborah Coonts on murder and mayhem in Las Vegas (it’s all fun)

Posted by | Dec 8, 2011 | , | 0 |

A review of Lucky Stiff, by Deborah Coonts. @@@@ (4 out of 5). The entomologists who are gathering at the Babylon Hotel & Resort in Las Vegas for their annual convention somehow manage to lose several million angry bees on the same day that what’s left of a woman known as a crooked bookmaker turns up in the shark tank at a nearby hotel. Shenanigans ensue, surprises happen, and the good guys win in the end. This is hardly fine literature, but who cares?

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