Just out of college, Billy takes a job as a lexicographer with a New England dictionary publisher and improbably finds himself caught up in a peculiar murder mystery. Working with another young recent hire, Mona, Billy slowly uncovers a series of clues left behind in the company’s “cit...
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Strength in What Remains is the story of Deogratias,” as the author writes (more succinctly than I could) in a post on Amazon.com, “a young man from the central African nation of Burundi. In 1993, through no fault of his own, he was forced onto a terrifying journey, a journey that...
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There are two prerequisites for reading and enjoying the hilarious Dortmunder novels by the amazingly prolific Donald Westlake: (1) you enjoy watching a fiendishly clever plot unfold, and (2) you love to laugh. In his 75 years — Westlake died on the last day of the year 2008 —...
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You have never met anyone like Lisbeth Salander, the “girl” in the title—guaranteed. Lisbeth is a tattooed, waif-like young woman with a brain of gargantuan proportions, an eidetic memory, an unsurpassed mastery of the Internet, and a mysterious past. In this unlikely but engrossing...
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The subtitle of this impassioned essay—The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy—tells half the story, one that’s familiar to any alert reader of today’s major newspapers. The other half of the story, equally familiar, is about how the Internet is undermining the newspaper industry...
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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.