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 →
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 →
The Return of the Dancing Master is a Swedish-noir novel by Henning Mankell, published in the year 2000. It has been translated from Swedish into English in 2003. Mankell is best know for his Kurt Wallender stories, a … Continue reading →
Resurrection Walk is a crime novel which combines two characters – Micky Haller from the Lincoln Lawyer series (7 books) and Bosch from the Harry Bosch series (25 books). The main story is a legal procedural story where Mickey Haller … Continue reading →
Network Effect is the sixth book in the acclaimed Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells and I have read four of them now. All of the books are creative works, full of strong characters, humor, action, and plot twists. … Continue reading →
The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2018 and was a New York Times Bestseller. It is a sprawling, ambitious work that winds the stories of several trees and nine characters throughout the long narrative. Some of the … Continue reading →
Puff the Magic Dragon is a folk song written by Peter Yarrow, based on a poem written by a Cornell student Leonard Lipton in 1959, which in turn was based on a poem by Ogden Nash (1936). Yarrow made … Continue reading →
Squeeze Me is a satirical novel set in South Florida. It is also a murder mystery with bouts of humor and and full of humor and edgy dialogue. At times it is raucous and absurd. At other times it has … Continue reading →
Outsider – An Old Man, a Mountain, and the Search for a Hidden Past is the story of Dag Aabye, told by journalist Brett Popplewell. Dag was born in Norway and was orphaned at the end of World War II. … Continue reading →
Project Hail Mary is a sustained, entertaining science fiction novel. There is lots of science and engineering, many quips and lots of banter, several plot twists, and some excitement, providing ongoing tension throughout. Best of all, there is a pervading … Continue reading →
