Books High and Low

  I enjoyed this memoir by 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace, although it's less a memoir about his life and career and more a colle...

This is the 4th book in Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford series, and it's the best-written book yet. Charlie Hatton is murdered the ...

  This is another satisfying mystery featuring detective Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie. Poirot is brought in to help identify the killer...

  I really enjoyed this spy thriller by author David McCloskey. Primarily based in Syria during the civil war, it features a CIA agent who r...

  This is a fascinating collection of essays by NPR correspondent John Burnett about his experiences reporting some of the biggest stories o...

  Mystery author Martha Grimes teamed up with her son to write this slight (211 page) memoir about their respective experiences with alcohol...

  This novella is the ninth and last entry in Ruth Downie's Medicus series which follows the life of a doctor in the Roman army during t...

With this ninth book in the Slow Horses series, Mick Herron has once again delivered a page turner with intricate plotting, fascinating char...

  This is another satisfying mystery starring Hercule Poirot and set in the Middle East. Poirot is vacationing but is called in to help solv...

  This was my local book club's September pick, giving us the summer to read this exceedingly long novel, at 670 pages. I found it hard ...

  Author Peter Attia is a medical doctor who dropped out of his medical residency to become a consultant for McKinsey & Company, and lat...

  Memento mori  is the 8th book in the Medicus series of mysteries by author Ruth Downie. Set in the 2nd century when Rome occupied a good p...

  I really enjoyed reading  Death on the Nile , one of the most famous of Agatha Christie's novels featuring Hercule Poirot. While I...

  Author Mary Roach does a great job presenting much of the research that has taken place to allow humans to go into outer space. In her hum...

  Wolf to the slaughter  is the third Inspector Wexford novel by mystery author Ruth Rendell. A scatter-brained artist reports to the police...

  In the 8th entry of the Slough House series of spy novels, the slow horses are looking for a missing government advisor who turns out (not...

  I don't always "get" poetry, but I loved this collection of poems by Alta published in 1989 by Shameless Hussy Press. A co-w...

  Anthony Bourdain's 2000 memoir about his more than (at that point) 20 years in the restaurant industry is fascinating but also a littl...

Overall, I enjoyed this fifth book in this series about Libertus, a former enslaved British man who was freed and made a Roman citizen when ...

  I really liked this touching and heartfelt memoir by NPR reporter Nina Totenberg about her decades long friendship with Supreme Court Just...

  I loved this novel about two motherless girls who grow up together in a small Louisiana town. Niecy was raised by her aunt, and Annie by h...

  In the 7th book in the Slow Horses series, the work records of all of the agents at Slough House have disappeared and several of their for...

While I'm still enjoying this series, I think this is one of the weaker offerings. Doctor Gaius Ruso has left the Roman army in Britain ...

  I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did. It's been thoroughly reviewed and rated on sites like Amazon and Goodreads, wi...

  The sixth book in Mick Herron's Slow Horses series opens with two of the Slough House agents killed, although they aren't named. T...

  This is a fascinating memoir by Marie Yovanovitch, a career diplomat who served in many roles throughout the former Soviet Union and who e...

I enjoyed this self-portrait by Josh Shapiro, the current governor of Pennsylvania and someone widely believed to be a potential contender f...

  I found this a tough book to read because nothing ever goes right for the protagonist, Able God, or anyone else in the book, for that matt...

  In this Hercule Poirot mystery from 1937, wealthy spinster Emily Arundell writes to Poirot with concerns that someone in her family is try...

  I really enjoyed this collection of 19 essays about moss. Subjects include much of the author's research into mosses' reproduction...