This volume brings together international and Maltese scholars, offering a line-up of innovative contributions to some of the most current and demanding, social, economic and cultural debates on...

Malta's history has served as an incomparable backdrop to countless novels in literature. Looking to the past century, though, there is one glaring omission: 1950s Malta, the decade before...

A year before F. Scott Fitzgerald died of a heart attack, he completed a short story about a hard-drinking writer diagnosed with cardiac disease. "And as for that current dodge 'No reference to...

"Protocol Zero," James Abel's follow-up to the stellar "White Plague," is intriguing, but ultimately doesn't live up to the premise or anticipation generated by the earlier novel. Marine Joe Rush...

Midway through Alice Hoffman's latest novel, the mother of the great impressionist painter Camille Pissarro takes her 2-week-old son into the forest to find a medicine man she hopes can cure him of...

With his sharp wit and skillful courtroom tactics, lawyer Andy Carpenter continues to shine in "Who Let the Dog Out?" the latest from author David Rosenfelt. And what would a David Rosenfelt...

There is much to say for presenting history as seen from the ground up, especially since many times we get history as told by the victor, top downwards. History, we are often told, is told by the...

Matthew Reilly, known for writing intense, over-the-top action thrillers, abandons his brand and delivers "The Tournament," a historical novel set in 1546. In this story, the sultan of the Ottoman...

A hallmark of Kathy Reichs' Temperance Brennan novels is how she incorporates a solid knowledge of forensics in a way that a novice can understand the intricacies, yet still appeal to an expert in the...

Gayle Lynds proves she's a master of the modern cold-war spy thriller with her latest novel, "The Assassins." The duplicity begins as six master assassins rob a Baghdad museum to recover money...