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Mysterious Book Report No. 113 – Standing In Another Man’s Grave

By admin|2016-04-22T07:36:28+00:00April 22nd, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Standing In Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin Little, Brown, $25.99, 388 pages, ISBN 978-0-316-22458-1 One of the most interesting characters in all of crime fiction literature is a champion of seemingly lost causes named John Rebus. You may have seen him on PBS television. He’s the irascible, grouchy, and brilliant Scottish Detective Inspector from Edinburg created some twenty years ago by a Scotsman writer named Ian Rankin; and, like

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Mysterious Book Report No. 112 – Breaking Point

By admin|2016-04-20T07:58:13+00:00April 20th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Breaking Point by C.J. Box Putnam, $26.95, 367 pages, ISBN 978-0-399-16075-2 In spite of what the old saw says, and what our mothers and other teachers told us . . . sometimes we just can’t help but prejudge . . . we go right ahead and judge a book by it’s cover, as the old saying goes. I’ve done it, you’ve done it, we’ve all done it at one

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Mysterious Book Report No. 111 – Bear Is Broken

By admin|2016-04-20T07:09:50+00:00April 20th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Bear Is Broken by Lachlan Smith Mysterious Press, $24.00, 256 pages, ISBN 978-0-8021-2079-3 Some of the most popular and ever present murder mysteries and crime fiction novels involve lawyers and courtroom dramas. Probably the first to do so was Earle Stanley Gardner, with his case-cracking super-lawyer named Perry Mason, who always seemed able to force a confession on the witness stand. These days, author John Grisham seems to have

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Mysterious Book Report No. 110 – Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland

By admin|2016-04-20T06:44:57+00:00April 20th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland by Ace Atkins Putnam, $26.95, 306 pages, ISBN 978-0-399-16157-5 When a popular and prolific author dies, so do all of his or her characters. If the author in question has created a serial character, the mourning is even greater because the character is so beloved by legions of invested readers and fans . . . some of whom have been involved in reading the character’s

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Mysterious Book Report No. 109 – The Third Bullet

By admin|2016-04-19T07:40:54+00:00April 19th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter Simon & Shuster, $26.99, 485 pages, ISBN 978-1-4516-4020-5 This November twenty-second will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States. For those of us who are old enough to remember that horrific day and its aftermath, it hardly seems possible that so much time has passed. In the words of a popular

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If You Got The Dough-Re-Mi

By admin|2019-07-13T00:09:31+00:00April 19th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Op-Ed No. 1 by John Dwaine McKenna With apologies to Woody Guthrie for expropriating his song title . . . Are you a thinking person? Do you give a damn about your family? How about your kids? Grandkids? Even your great-grandkids and all those who’ll be born after? Everyone in America should read this piece and make others aware of it too. When finished, you’re going to say “I

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Mysterious Book Report No. 108 – Ghostman

By admin|2016-04-18T07:59:58+00:00April 18th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Ghostman by Roger Hobbs Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95, 321 pages, ISBN 978-0-307-95996-6 Who among us hasn’t dreamed, at one time or another, of chucking it all; going off the grid and living a life of anonymity? No name, no taxes and no responsibilities . . . answerable only to oneself and the whims of chance. Soon however, like running off to join the circus, or driving a Corvette from

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Mysterious Book Report No. 107 – The Boyfriend

By admin|2016-04-15T08:12:55+00:00April 15th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

The Boyfriend by Thomas Perry Mysterious Press, $25.00, 298 pages, ISBN 978-0-8021-2606-1 There are people in the world who are so expert in their chosen fields of work that they have the skill and the ability to make the most difficult tasks look easy. You know the ones I mean: the accountant who takes the most insurmountable stack of receipts and sloppy bookkeeping and turn them into an on-time,

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Mysterious Book Report No. 106 – Black Irish

By admin|2016-04-15T07:13:16+00:00April 15th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Black Irish by Stephan Talty Ballentine Books, $26.00, 320 pages, ISBN 978-0-345-53806-2 Are you familiar with the term “Black Irish?” It refers not to the color of one’s skin, but to the color of one’s hair. The black Irish are descendents of the survivors of King Phillip of Spain’s Spanish Armada, a fleet of warships sent in 1588 to invade England. The Armada was defeated by the British Navy,

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Mysterious Book Report No. 105 – The Old Turks Load

By admin|2016-04-14T08:03:50+00:00April 14th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

The Old Turks Load by Gregory Gibson Mysterious Press, $24.00, 245 pages, ISBN 978-0-8021-2113-4 If you’re old enough to remember the late sixties, you’re certain to have memories of the so-called “Summer of Love”, the hippie movement, the birth of the drug culture, movies like Panic in Needle Park, and The French Connection, and the heroin epidemic that raged in many of the world’s cities . . . but

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