Michael Connelly is a best-selling author of gritty and gripping murder mysteries — in particular, a series featuring Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch, a Vietnam vet and Los Angeles Police Department detective. His Bosch novels are celebrated for their portrayal of police procedures and politics in the City of Angels. If you …continue reading
Ignore the inexplicable casting of Tom Cruise in the recent movies based on a series of books by Lee Child featuring Jack (NMN) Reacher, who in the books is described as blond, 6 feet 5 inches tall, and weighing 250 pounds. If Reacher were a Sackett from one of Louis …continue reading
No one who has read every single Sherlock Homes story has failed to close the book at the end of the last story without at least a twinge and a sigh. If only there were more! And there are! Not written by Arthur Conan Doyle, but written by literate fans. …continue reading
It turns out that Charles Dickens wrote more than A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver Twist. (For a discussion of Christian themes in A Tale of Two Cities, see “A Tale of Two Resurrections” by Paul Krause.) When Advent appears on my wall calendar, …continue reading
We missed a Sunday book excerpt, so today we will feature a snippet from two authors, each about butterflies — because today happens to be another cool rainy day in Southern California — winter here could pass for spring in harsher climates. The first excerpt is a poem by Robert …continue reading
Grand Mesa, Colorado, looms as a major setting in Roger Peppercorn’s thriller On the Devil’s Side of Heaven. The “the largest flattop mountain in the world,” serves not only background for the major characters but also a dramatic setting that hasn’t been beaten to rags by previous thrillers. The protagonist, …continue reading