Klosterman smartly, engagingly dissects ‘The Nineties’
Book review: Chuck Klosterman lived through the last good decade of humanity, and now he entertainingly breaks down its disaffected glory.
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Klosterman smartly, engagingly dissects ‘The Nineties’
Life is at best bittersweet in King’s ‘Dead Zone’ (1979)
Stephen King flashback (Book review): Johnny Smith’s tragic lost love hangs like a cloud over the novel even as it probes big moral questions.
Christie probes personalities in ‘Golden Ball’ (1971)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): “The Golden Ball and Other Stories” is not your typical Christie collection, as she explores people rather than murders.
Christie hones craft in ‘Under Dog and Other Stories’ (1951)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): We go back to the early days of Poirot and Hastings as Agatha Christie irons out her order and method.
Miss Marple takes a vacation ‘At Bertram’s Hotel’ (1965)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Marple is oddly disengaged in this crime story, but the slow-starting novel eventually kicks into high gear.
‘So Many Steps to Death’ (1954) pulls back Iron Curtain
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Even considering it’s a spy yarn rather than a murder mystery, this is one of Agatha Christie’s most outside-the-box novels.
‘There is a Tide …’ (1948) soaked with good characters, case
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Poirot comes in at the halfway mark, and his insights into people might be more important than his nose for clues.
‘Firestarter’ (1980) burns its characters into our minds
Stephen King flashback (Book review): “Firestarter” burns brighter than the superpower genre norm by making us care deeply for Charlie McGee and her dad.
Preston, Child dig up Roswell incident in ‘Diablo Mesa’
Book review: Nora and Corrie are together again, this time investigating one of the most famous mysteries in US history: the 1947 Roswell event.
Spy-murder mashup ‘The Clocks’ (1963) is worth your time
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Christie’s playfulness is on display in “The Clocks,” where she gets amusingly cynical about the spy state.