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Thursday, December 10, 2015

The Wilson Deception

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David Stewart continues the adventures of country doctor Jamie Fraser and his comrade in arms, Speed Cook, that he ably chronicled in The Li...
Friday, November 20, 2015

La Place de L'Etoile

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Satire hardly does justice to the savage commentary of Patrick Modiano's debut novel as he tears apart France's collaboration duri...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

The Dinosaur Feather

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S.J. Gazan's moody procedural sets a murder mystery amid academic intrigue in a biology institute in Copenhagen. She manages to keep t...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

The New and Improved Romie Futch

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Julia Elliott's prose seems to thrash around like a demon mutant boar but it is in reality a tightly controlled work of art. Her versati...
Friday, October 16, 2015

The Betrayers

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David Bezmozgis's novel about a 24-hour visit of a disgraced Israeli politician to Crimea has it all -- it is a novel of ideas, a love...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

The Man in the High Castle

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Philip K. Dick pushes the boundaries of the metaphysical and epistemological in his works, which go well beyond the rocket ships and space...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

The American Mission

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One of the things that makes thrillers tick for me is a sense of place, and that is one of the strongest aspects of Matthew Palmer's n...
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Darrell Delamaide
I'm a writer and editor who has lived in Washington for 18 years after long stays in France and Germany.
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