- May 15, 2020
Review of Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich
In “Hard Cash Valley,” we spend page time with small-time drug dealers, cockfighting masterminds, Filipino gangsters, and crooked police.
- May 15, 2020
Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
Macintyre presents a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and twists and turns.
- May 14, 2020
Review of Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell by Tom Clavin
Clavin's nonfiction book "Tombstone" traces the tensions and factors as they build to pivotal events that make Tombstone live on in infamy.
- May 12, 2020
Review of A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist who finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of circumstances.
- May 11, 2020
Review of Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Carefully researched and documented by Farrow, with twists and turns that feel so disturbingly outlandish as to seem like fiction at times.
- May 8, 2020
Review of books 1-3 of the Murderbot series by Martha Wells
Murderbot shows a reluctant, grumpy ability to care for others and a desire to develop its own sense of duty and sense of self.