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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Germania by Harald Gilbers

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(27. - 1099.) Germania by Harald Gilbers (translated by Alexandra Roesch) - The Jew and the Nazi. A sleuthing team I never expected to enco...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

New books from Louise Penny and Gail Bowen and Hillary Rodham Clinton

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I do not look ahead often in the publishing of books for, as I peer around my home office, I see unread books in too many places. However, a...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2021

A Concern Over the Best Canadian Crime Novel Criteria

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As I read through the quintet of books making up the shortlist for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Crime Ficti...
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Saturday, August 14, 2021

The Finder by Will Ferguson

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(26. - 1098.) The Finder by Will Ferguson - What an amazing opening! Atsushi Shimada is the sole policeman on the small island of Hateruma ...
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Saturday, August 7, 2021

Commenting on Sleuth Olympics

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Earlier this week Margot Kinberg at her excellent blog on her website,  https://margot-kin-berg.com/ , posted an imaginative post called Sle...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Eugenics and Genetics and The Historians

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In my last post I wrote a review of The Historians  by Cecilia  Ekbäck . The book provoked thoughts on eugenics and genetics for me. I wrote...
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Friday, July 30, 2021

The Historians by Cecilia Ekbäck

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(25. - 1097.) The Historians by Cecilia Ekbäck - April of 1943 is a precarious time in neutral Sweden. Nazi Germany will not tolerate disru...
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Saturday, July 24, 2021

Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille

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It has been a busy week with our son, Jonathan, daughter-in-law, Lauren, and granddaughters, Hannah and Hazel, visiting us. My reading slowe...
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