In 1977, two FBI agents, Jim Wedick and Jack Brennan, slipped recording devices beneath their suits, touted themselves as swindlers in the making and shook hands with Phil Kitzer. It marked the...

"Typhoon Fury" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison Juan Cabrillo and his elite crew of the ship the Oregon fight their most ruthless villain yet in "Typhoon Fury" by Clive...

An African-American novelist praised for her raw and powerful depictions of poor African-Americans confronting racial and economic inequalities in the rural South said Wednesday that winning a...

The search for the truth can be righteous; so can helping someone who feels powerless. Even anger can be righteous as unofficial private detective Isaiah "IQ" Quintabe learns in Joe Ide's excellent...

Art Garfunkel once envisioned a simple life as a mathematics teacher. He earned a master's degree and was well on his way to becoming a Ph.D. That plan was derailed when he and Paul Simon became...

The Malta Community Chest Fund has launched the 2017 edition of the book 'Tisjir mill-Qalb'. The publication will this year feature Maltese chefs who sought a future far from Malta.. The...

Welcome to the real new way of doing politics. Meet two young Members of Parliament: one a lawyer from a "noble" dynasty in the PN, with a history of family MPs on the 10th district and the other a...

Of all the books I have had to review, this is decidedly the strangest. The mystery starts right from the cover. We are never told the author's full name. Then we are told the book was printed in...

Bette Davis battled studio bosses, husbands and rivals during her long acting career, establishing a tough persona in real life to match her enduring Hollywood image. She would need all that strength...

Who is "The Scarred Woman"? That's a question you'll ask yourself as you read Jussi Adler-Olsen's latest mystery. Department Q, Copenhagen's cold case squad led by Detective Carl Morck, has its...