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Since his first Bruno novel in 2008, Martin Walker’s character has turned into one of the literary world’s favorite detectives. Walker has written eleven novels and two short stories so far about this small-town police chief living in the Périgord region of France. This short story The Chocolate War begins innocently enough with Bruno making... Continue Reading →
Two men want the best for their countries, if not the world. Marcus and Oleg. American and Russian. Two men with staunch moral fiber learn just how governments work to sustain peace or possibly destroy it. Even though he’s still a senior in college, Marcus tries to join the Marines after 9/11, only to have... Continue Reading →
Down-on-his-luck Norwegian reporter Vilgar Ravn Gudmundsson is singled out by a killer, fed emails revealing his self-righteous, mortiferous plans. The local upstart police investigator's position on the team is threatened by the big-city profiler. Underlying it all is a four-year-old scandal involving sex, bribes, and a government administrator. As the killer gets closer to the... Continue Reading →
What is the nature of our own obsessions? How might helping others be the impetus to possibly finding our own peace? These questions swirled around my head as I read about J. Reuben Appelman’s personal investigations into the Oakland County Child Killer case in his book The Kill Jar. The OCCK case is a series... Continue Reading →
Paul Collins’s latest true crime account Blood & Ivy takes the reader into the world of Boston’s elite in 1849. The victim in this case is George Parkman, successful businessman, doctor, and most importantly, Harvard alumni. He disappears on the 23rd of November on a seemingly routine round of errands in Cambridge, close to the... Continue Reading →
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