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Book Review: Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
March 23, 2024Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional...
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Book Review: Destiny and Desire by Carlos Fuentes
March 21, 2024A decapitated head washes ashore near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco. A young man, Josué,...
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Book Review: The Sherlockian< by Graham Moore
March 19, 2024There is a telling scene in the novel, when Conan Doyle visits the theatre managed by...
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Book Review: The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
March 19, 2024If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they...
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Book Review: Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
March 17, 2024Whatever her faults, you can’t criticise Patricia Cornwell for sticking in a rut. Port Mortuary, her...
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Book Review: Nemesis by Philip Roth
March 11, 2024Weequahic has been particularly hard-hit by the summer’s polio epidemic. Bucky, stuck supervising his school playground’s...
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Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
March 7, 2024Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
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Book Review: Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter, Book 1 by R. A. Salvatore
March 7, 2024One thing is clear: Salvatore is moving Drizzt ahead toward a new point in his life....
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Book Review: The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
March 4, 2024Bernard Cornwell, who has written a masterful novel about Agincourt, tackles the American Revolution and its...
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Book Review: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
March 3, 2024To label How to Live Safely as a human comedy is a bit of a stretch...