A very funny book about sexSo, Mary Roach is a very funny person. There may be no other writer on the planet who could delve so deeply into sexology from A to Z —…1d ago11d ago1
A terrific murder mystery set in Stalin’s Soviet UnionWith The Holy Thief, William Ryan joins Martin Cruz Smith (the Arkady Renko series) and Tom Rob Smith (the Child 44 Trilogy), whose…2d ago2d ago
An interstellar rescue mission goes awry 11 light-years from EarthHere’s the latest entry in Peter Cawdron’s remarkable series of standalone First Contact novels. It extends Cawdron’s reach further into…3d ago3d ago
A tangled mystery ensnares LA’s homeless populationJonathan Kellerman’s series of Alex Delaware mysteries debuted in 1985. Book number 40 appeared in 2025, making the series one of the…Mar 27Mar 27
When six million Americans left their homes behindFor 70,000 years or more, homo sapiens has been on the move. First, within Africa, when changing climate forced whole communities to move…Mar 261Mar 261
Espionage in Europe on the brink of World War IIShe was Graham Greene and Eric Ambler’s contemporary, and all her nearly two dozen spy novels were bestsellers. (Four were adapted to film…Mar 25Mar 25
A thoughtful, action-packed crime storySome years later, on a tugboat in the Gulf of Mexico, Joe Coughlin’s feet were placed in a tub of cement. Twelve gunmen stood waiting until…Mar 20Mar 20
Shocking revelations about a turning point in World War IIWorld War II might have ended six months earlier if General Bernard Montgomery’s Operation Market Garden had worked. The plan called for…Mar 19Mar 19
This classic detective novel shows its ageWhat’s your experience when you re-read a novel you loved when you were much younger? Mine is mixed. As often as not, I discover either…Mar 181Mar 181
Winston Churchill’s wife edited his WW2 speechesMost accounts of World War II show Winston Churchill facing off alone against Adolf Hitler as he rallied the British people to…Mar 13Mar 13
