Category: Suspense

November 23, 2023

Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton *** (of 4)

The premise is simple enough. A guerilla environmental group in New Zealand, calling itself Birnham Wood, illegally plants gardens on vacant properties. As you would...

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October 27, 2023

All the Sinners Bleed *** (of 4)

Nobody captures underlying racial tension in the contemporary south, wrapped in a crime thriller, as well as S.A. Cosby. His leads–this is Cosby’s fourth in...

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June 12, 2023

Gangland by Chuck Hogan *** (of 4)

Based on the true story of Tony Accardo, Al Capone’s protege, the undisputed mob boss of Chicago in the 1970s. Accardo’s mob runs all of...

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December 7, 2022

Ultra by Rachel Maddow **** (of 4)

Not a book or, at least, not yet a book, but a podcast. The genius of the production is that it is ostensibly a recounting...

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August 19, 2022

The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke *** (of 4)

Dave Robicheaux is a Cajun detective, poet, and philosopher with no patience for corruption or injustice. When a young Black woman floats to the surface,...

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July 12, 2022

The Martian by Andy Wier *** (of 4)

The Martian of this book refers to an American astronaut accidentally left stranded on Mars while his crew, thinking he had died during an intense...

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June 20, 2022

State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny *** (of 4)

As the book opens a new President of the United States has just taken office, displacing a hulking, bombastic, ignorant, self-aggrandizing, bloviating, possibly crooked predecessor,...

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April 27, 2022

Damascus Station by David McCloskey *** (of 4)

Soon after the Arab Spring reached Syria, Hafez Assad reacted to public uprisings with vicious government sponsored violence. Protestors were arrested, tortured, and slaughtered with...

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February 17, 2022

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby **** (of 4)

Ike and Buddy Lee couldn’t be more different or more the same. Ike is Black and barely the survivor of deeply embedded southern racism. Buddy...

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December 15, 2021

Medicus by Ruth Downie *** (of 4)

Gaius Petreius Ruso is a Roman physician working for Rome’s army in a remote outpost of the empire: dreary, rainy, savage countryside north of London...

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