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July 14, 2010

Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett **** ( of 4)

It’s difficult to write a series of detective stories with the same cop in the same location and not get stale. Burdett, now writing book...

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July 14, 2010

Bangkok Tatoo by John Burdett *** (of 4)

This is the second in Burdett’s series starring a devout Buddhist cop whose boss is corrupt and whose mother runs a successful whorehouse for aging...

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July 14, 2010

Bangkok 8 by John Burdett *** (of 4)

It’s a mystery. I read mysteries not for the crime but to learn something about other places and times. This one takes place inside the...

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July 14, 2010

The Art Thief by Noah Charney ** (of 4)

Mildly entertaining. A Caravaggio is stolen from a baroque church in Italy. A 20th century painting is taken from the Kazimir Melevich Society in Paris....

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July 13, 2010

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel *** (of 4)

A coming of age memoir of a girl discovering her lesbianism at the same moment she is learning that her obsessive-compulisive, tyrannical father was a...

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July 13, 2010

Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow ** (of 4)

A former Irish copper (really, that’s what Turow calls him, a copper) now an ex-alcoholic flunky in a powerful law firm goes on the hunt...

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July 8, 2010

The Good Soldiers by David Finkel **** (of 4)

David Finkel was embedded with the 2-16 on the outskirts of Bahgdad during Bush’s 2007 surge. He journals their work for one year. The troops...

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July 1, 2010

No One Would Listen by Harry Markopolos *** (of 4)

Markopolos is the guy who figured out Bernard Madoff. He did it by calculating Madoff’s the impossibility of his returns: nearly identical positive payoffs for...

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July 1, 2010