The most artful mystery writers immerse their readers in locale as well as in false leads. Marcuse has staked out the streets and parks around Columbia University as the habitat for her social-worker sleuth, Anita Servi (introduced in... Read More

Was it an accident, or did someone deliberately gun down the seven-year-old boy waiting in front of his home for the school bus? One thing seems sure: police detective Jake Hines can’t blame this tragedy on SAD (seasonal affective... Read More

In his preface, Elias notes that baseball “offers a common denominator that cuts across conflicting ideologies. Baseball provides and also illustrates some of the best that America has to offer. It also features some of the more... Read More

Words surround color photographs, singing and dancing a journey around the world. In twenty-five chapters detailing encounters with women, from Australia to Tobago to the United States of America, Bickman imparts the peace and wisdom she... Read More

“The land, our very lives, are parched and flooded by turns, perched at the bank of the river where the ground keeps crumbling away. And there we balance.“ The author is describing both her childhood and the current life she leads in... Read More

If childhood memoirs praising the pleasures of family, security, and comfort are rare, then rarer still is the memoir that credits those tender memories with inspiring a creative life. With clear-eyed wonderment, Gingher revisits her... Read More

The CIA’s motto, “the truth will set you free,” has been dishonored by “deception, duplicity, dirty tricks and deadly deceits,” according to this memoir. Turner, who was an FBI agent for ten years, alleges that the FBI’s... Read More

“Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit,” wrote John Stuart Mill. At what price freedom? Theologian Conyers believes a free-thinking society pays by sacrificing its sacred life for social... Read More