Ig Perrish has been going through hell in the year since his girlfriend was murdered. […]
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, by Alan Bradley
I was worried at the end of the last Flavia de Luce novel, The Dead […]
King of the Cracksmen, by Dennis O’Flaherty
Liam McCool is caught between a rock and a hard man. When we first meet […]
Ostland, by David Thomas
There is one question about World War II that will never be satisfactorily answered. That […]
Judgment standards; Or, one yardstick to rule them all?
“You can’t evaluate a work outside the context of its time.”“You can if it’s good.” […]
The Amber Keeper, by Freda Lightfoot
I have always been fascinated by tales of the Russian Revolution. An entire nation, caught […]
The Barefoot Queen, by Ildefonso Falcones
Caridad, Melchor Vega, Ana Vega, and Milagros Carmona all seem to have nothing but bad […]
Why I dumped Henry James
I knew when I tried to read The Portrait of a Lady, that Henry James […]
The Devil in the Marshalsea, by Antonia Hodgson
Tom Hawkins needs to grow up. Three years before Antonia Hodgson’s The Devil in the […]