In the Mail: The Devil's Star
The Devil’s Star Jo Nesbo Publishers Weekly A serial killer taunts Harry Hole in Nesbø’s searing third crime novel to feature the Oslo police detect...
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Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
Despite the fact that he lives and preaches in my home town (well, town I was born in anyways) of Grand Rapids, Michigan – and I have always heard good th...
In the Mail: The Spellmans Strike Again
The Spellmans Strike Again Lisa Lutz Publishers Weekly In Edgar-finalist Lutz’s entertaining fourth and final novel about the eccentric Spellman PI clan (...
In the Mail: Lighting Out For The Territory
Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain by Roy Morris, Jr. Library Journal Samuel Clemens went west in 1861, and Ma...
Dueling Reviews: Angelology
Susan Cokal in the NYTBR: Sensual and intellectual, “Angelology” is a terrifically clever thriller — more Eco than Brown, without the cloudy sentimentalism of N...
Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life by James McPherson
I think I am pretty clearly on the record in favor of short biographies but even I might blanche at a book that covers a subject as immense as Abraham Lincoln i...