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Shanghai Diary

Shanghai Diary by Ursula Bacon For those who wanted out of Nazi Germany in the Spring of 1939, the options were limited, dangerous, and expensive.  The only country who had […]

Shady Hollow

Shady Hollow and Cold Clay by Juneau Back Shady Hollow is the first in a mystery series by Juneau Black, the pen name of authors Jocelyn Cole and Sharon Nagel. […]

Save Me the Plums

Save Me the Plums, My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl I hate to cook, but I would gladly have worked at Gourmet magazine under the editorial leadership of Ruth Reichl. […]

Royal Spyness Mysteries

Royal Spyness Mystery Series by Rhys Bowen Having a nasty cold has some drawbacks, but the opportunity to stay in bed all afternoon with deliciously silly mystery is not one […]

Room

Room by Emma Donoghue The premise of Emma Donoghue’s novel, Room, is certainly off-putting. The child of a young woman and her kidnapper is being raised by his mother in […]

Rogues’ Gallery

Rogues’ Gallery by Michael Gross American museums are peculiar institutions. Unlike their counterparts in Europe which are owned by the government or royalty, American museums were founded and funded by […]

Rogue Lawyer

Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham His office is an SUV, but he ain’t no Lincoln Lawyer. Mystery readers will get the reference to Michael Connelly’s excellent Lincoln Lawyer series featuring […]

River of the Gods

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard Having read Alan Moorehead’s best-selling books, The Blue Nile and […]

Red Notice

Red Notice, A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder Bill Browder, a mild-mannered financier working in Russia, gets on the wrong […]

Racing the Light

Racing the Light an Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel by Robert Crais LA based private investigator Elvis Cole takes on a seemingly innocuous missing person case in the nineteenth […]