Reading Around

(Paris burning; passions light;Echoes Phoenix queue to rise,Top wings upon a rebirth’s flight.It’s there, we understand and knowIn [...]

At 65, CIA case officer Charles Jenkins should be enjoying his retirement, his nine year-old son, and taking care of his much younger wife, [...]

Women who are just starting out in their careers, or those planning their next moves, will devour Lydia Fenet’s new book, The Most [...]

She pries back the lid of an old take-out food container and reveals him, mottled, dark and damp; he hisses. She speaks to him calmly, my [...]

Being a game warden in Wyoming is no day at the beach, as C.J. Box proves time and time again. The job involves keeping in line hunters [...]

The sky moves in billowing tonalities,  layered blankets of soft blue gray hovering over a bright orange and yellow horizon.  [...]

Snow melting on the buried lawns, only 8:00 a.m.  and it’s twenty degrees warmer than yesterday.   The black road is [...]

There’s such an array of good guys – and gals – in Barry Eisler’s The Killer Collective, that the group resembles a [...]