Book Review: My Dark Places by James Ellroy
My Dark Places James Ellroy Vintage Books, 1997 ISBN 0-679-76205-1 Trade Paperback James Ellroy, prolific Los Angeles crime writer, takes us on a rock-strewn, rutted road through his internal landscape in this memoir, which has at its heart, the loss of his mother to an anonymous murder. This intimate view of the inside of James [...]
December 31, 2011
Tags: autobiography, California, memoir, novelist, true crime, Vintage Books Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Review: Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
Bruno, Chief of Police Martin Walker Vintage Books, 2010 Originally published in the UK in 2008 by Quercus Books ISBN 9780307454690 Trade Paperback Suddenly Bruno noticed something odd. After every previous parade, whether it was for the eighth of May, or the eighteenth of June, when de Gaulle launched Free France, or the fourteenth of [...]
January 9, 2011
Tags: France, mystery, police procedural, Vintage Books Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Review: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Reader Bernhard Schlink Vintage Books, 2008 ISBN 0307473465 Mass Market Paperback When 15-year-old Michael Berg discovers an older woman willing to become his lover, he thinks he’s the student. Yet, intimacy with Hanna comes with one condition–he’s got to read to her first. Michael never thought much about this odd form of foreplay until [...]
February 26, 2010
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