The Laughing Policeman is one of a series of police procedurals featuring Superintendant Martin Beck and Detective Lennert Kollberg as well as several other detectives. […]
Book List: Go, Dogs, Go!
Below are fiction and non-fiction books with dog characters, training and care information, or other information about dogs. All of them are available through the libraries of the […]
A True Must-Read: “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin
This book has had great recommendations and widespread publicity. Nonetheless, some may imagine that it is political, religious, dull, or predictable. It is none of […]
C. J. Box: Great Mysteries for Summer Entertainment
Beginning with “Open Season” in 2001, C. J. Box has published 11 books. Seven of them star Wyoming Game Warden Joe Picket, an introspective and […]
Dave Eggers’s “What is the What”
War and famine and slavery as they come to us in newspaper headlines are troubling events that we puzzle over or analyze or ignore, and […]
“The Elegance of the Hedgehog”: a rare and subtle treat from Muriel Barbery
How do you imagine Paris? I think of the city of lovers, sophisticated women dressed with style, bridges over the Seine, the Louvre, artists sipping […]
Vivid Historical Fiction from Geraldine Brooks
I read Geraldine Brooks’s three historical novels in reverse order–the most recent, People of the Book last–and given the way Brooks likes to scramble the […]
Jane Whitefield is back: “Runner”
After a hiatus of nine years, Thomas Perry has written the sixth Jane Whitefield novel. I don’t know when I have been more excited to […]
Another Strong Woman in the Mysteries of Marianne Wesson
Render Up the Body, A Suggestion of Death, and Chilling Effect I don’t know how I missed these mysteries as they were published (1998, 2000, […]
