George Sueño, agent for the Criminal Investigation Division of the 8th U.S. Army in Seoul, makes a visit, out of curiosity, to a fortune teller named Auntie Mee. She begs Sueño to find the missing bones of a soldier who was murdered... Read More

There is a serial killer on the loose in the English country township of Lafferton and it has everyone, including Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler, flinching at every car that backfires. What makes this case especially baffling is that... Read More

There’s a mystery in "Dead Floating Lovers" (Midnight Ink, 978-0-7387-1265-9), Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli’s second Emily Kincaid offering, centered on BONES DISCOVERED IN A REMOTE LAKE. It isn’t always at the forefront in this... Read More

In her second memoir, "Confessions of a Bi-Polar Mardi-Gras Queen", Marie Etienne tells the chilling story of mental illness inherited by generations of her family. Her grandmother spent more than thirty years in a mental facility, a... Read More

By Crystal’s own admission, "By Hook or by Crook" is a linguistic travelogue. Normally a writer of textbooks and dictionaries—utterly self-contained literary worlds—this book takes a meandering path through the Welsh countryside... Read More

Imagining one’s parents as children is an exercise too rarely done. It’s much easier for parents to empathize with children than the other way around. The author, a psychiatrist who teaches at the University of Washington (Seattle),... Read More

On September 16, 1908, the New York Times ran a lead business news story in which the White Star Line announced that construction was beginning on the world’s largest steamship, the Titanic. On the same day, another announcement... Read More

On Egypt’s Giza plateau, not far from Cairo, sit three giant pyramids and their constant companion, the colossal statue known as the Great Sphinx. These ancient structures, along with their enclosure walls and a couple of nearby... Read More