Marble Hall Murders By Anthony Horowitz (Harper, 583 pages, $31) The prolific and multi-talented Anthony Horowitz is back with a very readable third novel featuring the full-time professional editor and part-time amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland and the legendary fictional detective…
A Refiner’s Fire: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, 33) By Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly Press, 288 pages, $22.00) Donna Leon’s 33rd installment of her immensely popular Commissario (detective inspector) Guido Brunetti series shows that at 82…
The Last Devil to Die By Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books, 362 pages, $29) If I had known that Richard Osman was a producer of television quiz shows and a TV entertainment show presenter before I read The Thursday Murder Club,…
Wandering through Life: A Memoir By Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly Press, 193 pages, $26) When a writer charms, instructs, amuses, or simply mightily entertains us, it’s natural enough to wish to know more about the creator behind the creation. What…
Released in 1964, the Warren Report, issued by a commission that had meticulously suppressed ample evidence to the contrary, asserted that President John F. Kennedy had been murdered by a nonentity named Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone. In 1977, after…
When Joe Biden announced on Twitter in August 2020 that Kamala Harris would be his running mate, the pronouncement was met with fawning from a gleeful legacy media. Seemingly overnight, Harris was anointed as the future of the Democratic Party…
The ghostly visage of James Jesus Angleton appeared on the front page of the Washington Times on Jan. 3, 2023, in a story by reporter Bill Gertz about newly released documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy…
The Maze: A John Corey Novel By Nelson DeMille (Scribner, 432 pages, $30) If you read Nelson DeMille’s newest John Corey thriller, The Maze, right after Andrew Klavan’s A Strange Habit of Mind as I just did, you might think…
A Heart Full of Headstones: An Inspector Rebus Novel By Ian Rankin (Little, Brown, 335 pages, $28) After over-dosing on political reading, writing, and viewing for weeks (it seemed much longer, and it starts again soon), I felt justified in…
