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Posted on Sunday September 27th, 2009 at 22:54 in Canada, yellowknife, indigenous people, native rights, energy exploitation, val wake, white bird black bird
White Bird Black Bird was written by Val Wake, the Australian-born journalist who worked for many years in Canada and England before returning to his native land. Wake worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC ) from 1969-73, the time wh...
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Posted on Saturday September 19th, 2009 at 13:30 in italy, nightlife, florence, world war two, hit man, magdalen nabb, thomas perry, vanishing act, lawrence block, dance for the dead, jane whitfield, the butcher's boy
The Marshal and the Murderer by the late Magdalen Nabb is another foray into Florence and its nearby villages under the watchful eye of the ever-delightful and self-deprecating Marshall Guarnaccia. However, the events that transpire are not nearly as...
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Posted on Sunday August 23rd, 2009 at 22:58 in politics, Thriller, race relations, stephen l. carter, palace council
Palace Council (Vintage Contemporaries)This wonderful novel is Stephen L. Carter’s third thriller. It is a captivating mystery story that I absolutely loved, which has enough conspiracies on all sides to, among other things, reanimate J. Edgar Ho...
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Posted on Sunday April 12th, 2009 at 10:12 in cut short, leigh russell
Author Leigh Russell of the U.K. is having technical issues with certain web-based book stores (see the comment on the previous post). Please look at Leigh's blog for more information about the new novel Cut Short, featuring detective inspector (DI)...
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Posted on Sunday March 8th, 2009 at 12:00 in spain, australia, laos, michael connelly, crime fiction, magdalen nabb, patricia carlon, thomas perry, australian crime fiction, colin cottrell, rebecca pawel
In keeping with my recent, brief remarks about the books I've been reading, some gems from SOHO press are presented here. My reviewing is far behind my reading, so there's still plenty more to come.Thirty-Three Teethby Colin Cottrell. One doesn't ...
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Posted on Monday November 17th, 2008 at 01:02
Other books I've recently read.... with hit-and-run commentary.Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith- very good, if not one of the best of Renko's investigations. Contemporary Moscow, new Russian elections, post-Chernobyl citizens, and detailed refere...
It's obvious that a lot of hard work has gone into this blog. And I'm a sucker to find out what interesting things people are reading.
Great job!
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