I just finished a brand new book list of noir and crime books that I’ve read or have on my to read list and I […]
Unlocking a Crime Novel: The Lock Artist
“. . . in all the things I’ve done in the past years, there’s one particular thing I haven’t done. I haven’t spoken one single […]
When Kayson met KoKo: A Love Story
What do you mean I’m in the wrong place? Wait… It’s not that kind of…ohhhh! The Pussy Trap, a novel by Ne Ne Capri, is a tale […]
The Innocent Found Guilty
After reading two books this month dealing with unjustly convicted and incarcerated Americans,(one set in Nicaragua and the other in California) I found it disturbing to find that […]
Great Summer Reading-Murder, Madness, Obsession
I have a crush on David Grann. There, I’ve said it. Even though it’s just a literary crush, please don’t tell my husband. If you pick […]
Orange is the New Black
Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison graduated from Smith College in the early 1990s. Always a free […]
Art Thieves & Forgers
March 18, 2010 marked the twentieth anniversary of the devastating art theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (www.gardnermuseum.org). Thirteen masterpieces including pieces by Vermeer, Rembrandt […]
Novelist Richard Mason’s early success — not a flash in the pan
The Drowning People, Mason’s first novel, took the literary world by storm.
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo: Sweden in the 1960’s
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. […]
