She has a richness of texture, a complexity of character and exploration of still-current themes that Christie can't match.
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Book Review: Grievance
Rocksburg, Pa. Detective Officer Rugs Carlucci has two problems, one of which is much more difficult emotionally. The first fits into his traditional job – help determine who killed a local steel magnate. This work is relatively easy. But it’s the second problem – dealing with his mother as she …
Read More »Book Review: The Bookman’s Promise
Dunning, who has won the Nero Wolfe Award, wrote Booked to Die and The Bookman’s Wake. Both were excellent. This new book pales, however, in comparison to the two earlier ones. Dunning owned a Denver bookstore for many years but now does his sales online. I mention this because in …
Read More »Book Review: The Closers
As with many reporters, I will always have a soft spot for Michael Connelly. While I was working as a crime reporter for the Hemet News and the Sun City News in So. Cal as a younger man, he was a cop reporter for the L.A. Times. My dream then …
Read More »Book Review: Christopher Brookmyre’s All Fun an Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
Chris Brookmyre's novels are so much more than just a plot waiting to be uncovered that you will want to read them repeatedly.
Read More »The Da Vinci Code: Nothing To Get Excited About
Have a little faith in your congregation's ability to think for themselves.
Read More »The Quill Awards: New Literary Award
The Quill Literary Foundation has created the first literary awards whose results will be decided by the book buying public.
Read More »Book Review: Dark Fire
Literary types like to dismiss genre fiction, yet judging by the number of novels that are near- (or far-)misses, a detective novel is as difficult to write well as any other.
Read More »V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
I must admit that I didn’t have any inclinations to read graphic novels despite the good films that inspired them: Road To Perdition by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner and Sin City by Frank Miller quickly come to mind. The funny thing is that most of my friends …
Read More »Sherman Alexie: Indian Killer
If Crazy Horse, or Geronimo, or Sitting Bull came back...They would start a war....They’d listen to some dumb-shit Disney song and feel like hurting somebody....if the Ghost Dance worked ...All you white people would disappear. All of you. If those dead Indians came back to life...They’d kill you. They’d gut you and eat you heart.”
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