Category: FICTION

July 17, 2017

Nemesis by Lindsay Davis *** (of 4)

The twentieth book in the series on detective Marcus Didius Falco, this one in Rome and Latium in the year 77 AD. In this mystery,...

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May 16, 2017

10 LB. Penalty by Dick Francis ** (of 4)

A young British jockey is pulled from his mount by his excessively wealthy father. His new job is to assist as his father runs for...

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March 31, 2017

Regeneration by Pat Barker **** (of 4)

Most of the action takes place away from the European trenches of World War I. Instead, Dr. Rivers uses the new field of psychoanalysis to...

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March 7, 2017

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman **** (of 4)

Ove awakens at the same hour every morning and sees no reason to change any part of his routine that begins with close inspection of...

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February 16, 2017

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley ** (of 4)

In late Victorian England, a telegraphist discovers a watch in his flat. The watch is exquisitely expensive but does not open to tell the time...

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December 27, 2016

The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith *** (of 4)

In the closing days of WWII, as the Allies are conquering northward up the Italian peninsula, the Germans are beginning to retreat, and their Italian...

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December 1, 2016

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George **** (of 4)

It seems to me that even mediocre authors can write tragedies. As long as a protagonist is reasonably sympathetic and something awful occurs, the reader...

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November 22, 2016

Palace of Treason by Jason Matthews *** (of 4)

The second in the series involving a a love affair that really should never happen between an American CIA spy, Nathanial Nash and the mole he...

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September 28, 2016

The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff ** (of 4)

It is the middle of the fifth century, though you would have to know that on your own, as there is no indication in the...

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September 25, 2016

Children of the Arbat *** (of 4) by Anatoli Rybakov

The Arbat is a Moscow neighborhood; its children are the teens and twenty-somethings caught up in Stalin’s increasingly repressive communism of the 1930s. These youth...

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