Tangled Up in Blue was one of the featured songs on his best album Blood on the Tracks. It is song which looks back at former relationship and themes of loss, love, regret, and the how the passing of time … Continue reading →
All the Pretty Horses is a novel set in southern Texas and Mexico in the 1950s. It is the story of John Grady, a 16 year old who has become disconnected from his ranch home and family. He was raised … Continue reading →
Billy Summers is a thriller-crime-noir story about a hit man who is asked to one final job, then he plans to retire. Billy is a sniper who will only shoot “bad men”, but this leads to many moral dilemmas since … Continue reading →
I first heard Dr. Hook (once called Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) on the radio in 1972 with the pop song Sylvia’s Mother and over the next decade, I enjoyed a series pop tunes and ballads, with songs like … Continue reading →
Age of Iron is a historical action-adventure novel set in the Britain before the arrival of the Romans. We are introduced to Dug Sealskinner, an aging mercenary who is battle-scarred, roaming and fleeing from the death of his family. He … Continue reading →
It is hard to fit Another Kind of Eden into a genre or to compare it to other novels. It best fits into other works by James Lee Burke. He has written over 40 novels, many of them Detective stories … Continue reading →
Jesse Winchester was an American – Canadian singer-songwriter. He left the US to avoid the Vietnam War draft and lived in Canada until he was later granted amnesty, then moved back to the southern US in 2002. While … Continue reading →
All the Sinners Bleed is a crime-thriller novel that uses a police procedural point of view. The setting is in small rural town in the Southern states. The protagonist (Titus Crown) is a black sheriff in a community where the … Continue reading →
The first songs I heard from Van Morrison were from the album Moondance in 1970. From that album were a number of memorable songs like And it Stoned Me, Caravan, Into the Mystic, and others. I bought the … Continue reading →
Walt Longmire is one of the best characters in crime fiction. Craig Johnson has published 21 Longmire books, all set in Wyoming. Land of Wolves follows a murder and a wolf sighting nearby. Walt ventures out into sheep herding country … Continue reading →
