Category: FICTION

February 9, 2014

Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton *** (of 5)

A despised editor of a very thinly disguised New York Times is found spread-eagled and more than dead in the basement of the paper’s headquarters....

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January 25, 2014

The Round House by Louise Erdrich **** (of 4)

Joe, the story’s thirteen-year-old narrator, is a Native American living on a reservation in North Dakota. His mother has just been raped, not unusual as...

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December 8, 2013

How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny **** (of 5)

The ninth book in the Detective Armand Gamache series is a completely lovable installment. Gamache must locate a missing person with a false identity at...

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October 29, 2013

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem **** (of 4)

Lionel Esrog, along with three friends, is plucked from a Brooklyn orphanage by Frank Minna, a self-made detective and small time Brooklyn nogoodnik. Early in...

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October 10, 2013

The Gods of Gotham by Lindsay Faye *** (of 4)

The year is 1845. The city of New York has grown a little too quickly from 50,000 to half a million. The potato blight has...

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September 9, 2013

The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson **** (of 4)

Jun Do, a North Korean John Doe, lives many lives. He is an orphan in a camp for throw-away children, he undergoes pain training and...

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August 18, 2013

Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller *** (of 4)

Sheldon Horowitz is 82-years-old with a prostate, he lets us know right away, the size of a watermelon. After his wife’s recent death he is...

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August 18, 2013

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens *** (of 4)

Roughly sixty years after the event, Charles Dickens takes his hand to historical fiction, doing his best to recount the French Revolution. Simultaneously ambitious, and...

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July 14, 2013

The Missing File by D.A. Mishani *** (of 4)

Why are so many contemporary detectives so depressed? Here’s another: Detective Avraham Avraham, a lonely, single, self-doubting Israeli detective slogging into a job that utterly...

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June 21, 2013