Dave Robicheaux and Clete Purcel can never escape their pasts or the angry demons in their heads, even to do a little fishing in Montana....

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I hosted a giveaway for three copies of Public Trust by J. M. Mitchell.  This is mystery with a National Park story-line, a romantic a...

  We finally wrench to a stop in a village so remote it appears unreachable except by train.   A sign reads "Saint-Corbenay" ...

"Labor is life" is my motto today, since I am traveling to Boise for work today. Not much of a holiday weekend, I'm afraid.

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  Extra virgin olive oil is the gateway drug to great food, as many a foodie has discovered. But in Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scan...

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She wore a brown and orange wrap, with a South American or tropical design -- he wasn't sure which. In one hand she held a bottle of...

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Having finished and reviewed my second National Book Award winner, I have now completed the 2012 Battle of the Prizes, American Version . ...

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  Whittaker Chambers was an American communist and Soviet spy who broke with the Communist Party in 1938 and later denounced the other m...

  There's a reason why Mr. Sammler's Planet doesn't spring first to mind when making a list of favorite or best known Saul Be...

He was standing at the far end of the bar, knocking back shots from a bottle of Jack Daniel's, chasing it with a can of Bud. The cus...

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Michael Murphy is an Arizona author with eight novels under his belt. He loves deserts, mountains, lakes and Arizona's "wacky pol...

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"What are you going to do now?" "I'm going looking for your mother's birth certificate." -- Brother and Siste...

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Every once in a while a diligent used book hound can hit it lucky. I did today when I happened to stop by Secondhand Prose , the Friends o...

The years of phallic obsession began. Like every other male who has wondered this earth, you were in thrall to the miraculous change that ...

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The Gate House is the sequel to Nelson DeMille's wildly popular mafia thriller/farce, The Gold Coast , picking up ten years after Jo...

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