Books High and Low

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

The riddle of the third mile, by Colin Dexter

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This is another twisty-turny mystery starring Inspector Morse, with a convoluted plot about a body that turns up headless, handless, and leg...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Confidence man, by Maggie Haberman

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  I've been a big fan of Maggie Haberman's journalism for years, and have always appreciated her appearances on cable news networks....

The summit mindset, by Scott Miller and James C. Moore

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Business executive/debut author Miller and documentary filmmaker and Emmy Award winner Moore (General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics) ma...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Mud, blood, and ghosts: Populism, eugenics, and spiritualism in the American West, by Julie Carr

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  Author and professor of English Julie Carr examines the roots of American populism through the lens of her family history and the forces...

The dead of Jericho, by Colin Dexter

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This is another confusing and complex murder mystery that can only be solved by Inspector Morse. A woman is found dead of apparent suicide a...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Service of all the dead, by Colin Dexter

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In the fourth Inspector Morse mystery, Morse takes a vacation but only travels so far as a local village where he learns that there was a mu...
Monday, May 1, 2023

The bandit queens, by Parini Shroff

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  I really enjoyed this humorous first novel by Parini Shroff. Geeta's violent and abusive husband abandoned her five years ago, but the...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

The silent world of Nicholas Quinn, by Colin Dexter

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This is the third book in the Inspector Morse series of detective novels and I have to say it is the least believable. The Inspector Morse ...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Sunset Park, by Paul Auster

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  This 2010 novel brings together an eclectic group of twenty-somethings during the period after the 2008 economic crisis. Miles is running ...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Last seen wearing, by Colin Dexter

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  This is the second mystery in the Inspector Morse series and is similarly entertaining. If possible it has even more false leads than the...

Last bus to Woodstock, by Colin Dexter

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  I've been watching the Inspector Morse prequel Endeavor on Prime, and was hoping to watch Inspector Morse as well; however, I can...

The white devil, by Justin Evans

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  This was a marginally satisfying gothic thriller about a high school student who has been pushed by his father to go into a British prep s...
Friday, March 24, 2023

Under my skin, by Lisa Unger

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  This is a page-turning, suspenseful thriller in which the main character is trying to figure out what happened to her husband, who was fou...

Where ivy dares to grow, by Marielle Thompson

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  Saoirse travels with her fiance to his family estate in rural England to see his mother as her health is failing. Feeling unwelcome, Saoir...

Silent thunder, by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen

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This is a page-turning thriller about an international search for historical antiquities aboard a decommissioned Soviet-era nuclear submarin...

The bone code, by Kathy Reichs

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  This is another satisfying mystery solved by forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in which she manages to solve both a contemporary ...

The lion is in, by Delia Ephron

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I really enjoyed this funny, yet touching, novel about three women who are all on the run from their respective pasts. They stop one night a...

Mastering the art of French murder, by Colleen Cambridge

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  This is a fun mystery set in Cold War-era Paris. Tabitha is staying with her uncle and his friend who just happen to live across the stree...
Thursday, February 9, 2023

The half life of Valery K, by Natasha Pulley

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  Valery K is a prisoner in a Russian labor camp who is released early in 1963 to work on a scientific study of the effects of radiation o...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

There is nothing for you here, by Fiona Hill

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  After seeing Fiona Hill's testimony before Congress and reading her earlier book about Vladimir Putin, reviewed here , I was eager to ...
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