The Poet’s Corner – Lessons
Lessons The summer yard is held in the gaze of the noon day sun. You squint at fractals of light caught in your lashes. She is [...]
Reading Around
Final Target – John Gilstrap’s Rumble in the Jungle
Summer’s the perfect time to jump into a new series, so if you don’t already know John Gilstrap’s Jonathan Grave [...]
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food that Tells their Stories
Most of the names in this book were unfamiliar to me, but their food stories were still accessible. Laura Shapiro in What She Ate – [...]
Five Great Books About Dogs
The phrase ‘the dog days of August’ isn’t just a reference to the month’s notorious mugginess but also to the fact that August, [...]
Need You Dead – Murder Comes Close to Home
The one thing that worried him-slightly-was how easy he had found it to lie. To now believe completely in his innocence. One [...]
City of Light, City of Poison – Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
‘Day and night they kill here, we have arrived at the dregs of all centuries.’ Guy Patin a doctor at the Paris Faculty of Medicine [...]
Defector – A Ghost Story About Spies
He runs to avoid prison and he just lands in a bigger one. Joseph Kanon, author of best-sellers Istanbul Passage and Leaving Berlin, once [...]
Stillhouse Lake – Guilt By Association
On June 14, Suzanne Hodgkinson’s husband, James, wounded Congressman Steve Scalise and four others when he opened fire at a baseball [...]
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