May 3, 2018
007 Gets Cold in Icebreaker
Let me started by saying that I have read all of Ian Fleming's novels in the James Bond series. The difference between them and the...
Feb 22, 2018
Getting Black and Blue with Ian Rankin
Inspector John Rebus is brash, hard-headed, and utterly unlikeable as a person. This could all explain why John Rebus has been such a...
Feb 10, 2018
It's A Dirty Job and Christopher Moore Did It
Charlie Asher is the proprietor of a small shop in San Francisco whose life is as normal as normal gets. But, after his wife dies shortly...
Dec 15, 2017
Green-Dressed Hauntings Abound in Banks' Debut Novel
Who doesn't like a good ghost story? Perhaps a good "coming of age" story involving a young man meeting a father he never knew he had is...
Oct 19, 2017
American Fire: A Love Story Gone Horribly Wrong
Accomack county on the Eastern Shore of Virginia was a community in decline. Once an agricultural powerhouse, this remote region was...
Sep 12, 2017
David Morrell's "First Blood"
I'll admit that I was never a big fan of the Sylvester Stallone film, First Blood. It wasn't bad, but, in the eighties, it wasn't really...