Tracy Kidder on Dr. Paul Farmer: A genius at work
A review of Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder. @@@@@ (5 out of 5)
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Author: Mal Warwick
Crime in Jersey, Janet Evanovich, and other guilty pleasures
If you read Evanovich loyally, as I do, you won’t learn a lot about anything of consequence, not law enforcement, crime, or even the working-class setting in New Jersey where the Stephanie Plum novels are set. Chances are, though, you’ll have a lot of fun.
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Crime in the underbelly of Nazi-era Germany
Celebrate the debut of an emerging star as both a writer of crime novels and of historical fiction. Rebecca Cantrell’s A Trace of Smoke marks the advent of Hannah Vogel, an investigative crime reporter in Berlin in the year 1931, when Adolf Hitler’s brownshirts were dismantling the...
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From Tana French, a brilliant and satisfying novel of suspense
Faithful Place works on every level: as a suspenseful detective novel, as a psychological study of a horribly dysfunctional family, as a portrait of class relations in contemporary Ireland, and as an excursion into working-class Irish dialect.
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From Joseph Wambaugh: Life on the streets of Hollywood
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Chalk up another successful novel in Joseph Wambaugh’s continuing saga of the fascinating “coppers” in the country’s most colorful police precinct, the guys and gals of Hollywood Station. In an earlier post I reviewed the three previous...
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