Books of the Week: Quiet Dell, Jayne Anne Phillips Mariana, Susanna Kearsley Would-Be Witch, Kimberly Frost Half-Off Ragnarok, Seanan McGuire Jayne Anne Phillips's Quiet Dell is the fictional version of a real event, the murder of a family and certainly at least one...
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March 9, 2014
Books of the Week: After I'm Gone, Laura Lippman The Silence of the Library, Miranda James Murder of Crows, Anne Bishop In the interests of being thorough, I'm re-reading all the Rex Stout books and the Agatha Christie ‘Miss Marple' novels on my e-reader as I travel....
February 19, 2014
Books of the Week: Up from the Grave, Jeaniene Frost Dead Harvest, Chris F. Holm The Nero Wolfe books, Rex Stout The Girl with all the Gifts, M.R. Carey Jeaniene Frost ended her hugely popular Cat and Bones series with a great bang. Up from the Grave contains...
January 31, 2014
Books of the Week: Jane and Prudence, A Few Green Leaves, An Academic Question, An Unsuitable Attachment, Barbara Pym The Cat and Bones books by Jeaniene Frost Indexing, Seanan McGuire As you can see, I continued my Barbara Pym binge. There are minor characters...
January 14, 2014
Books of the Week: The Last Minute, Jeff Abbott Fiend, Peter Stenson Winter’s Bone, Daniel Woodrell I went on a Barbara Pym reading binge right around New Year’s Day. I’ve talked about her books here before, so I won’t now at any length: but I read “No Fond...
December 27, 2013
BOOKS OF THE WEEK: Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick The Last Minute, Jeff Abbott Curtsies and Conspiracies, Gail Carriger The Cuckoo’s Calling, Robert Galbraith Daughter of the Empire, Lady Pamela Hicks Written in Blood, Anne Bishop Since David Sedaris was...
November 24, 2013
(no book recommendations this week) Remembrance and Gratitude The two months of recollection and reflection leading up to the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy – and the subsequent assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and...
November 11, 2013
Books of the Week: Parasite, Mira Grant Longbourn, Jo Baker The two books I read this week ended up taking me quite a while. Parasite andLongbourn are both well worth reading, and I didn’t want to skip over anything important. The books couldn’t be more different....
October 31, 2013
Books of the Week: Inherit the Dead, edited by Jonathan Santlofer Serving Victoria, Kate Hubbard I don't ordinarily review books in which I have any part, but Inherit the Dead was written for such a good cause (the proceeds benefit Safe Horizon, the US's leading...
October 20, 2013
Books of the Week: Pagan Spring, G.M. Malliet Snowblind, Christopher Golden Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson, Jeff Guinn Diversity and Contrast are my middle names this week. I am a huge fan of G.M. Malliet’s Max Tudor books, so I was delighted to buy this...