One of the highest rated TV series during the past season was undoubtedly Prima Facie. Not everyone might be aware however that the series was an adaptation of a hugely successful novel, the police...

"Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy" (The Penguin Press), by Sudhir Venkatesh   A crack dealer. A madam. A porn store clerk....

Among the glories of its publications, PIN can list this series of highly-coloured books about practically all parishes in Malta and Gozo, showing, maybe for the first time, the many treasures that...

"A Tap on the Window" (New American Library), by Linwood Barclay   Private detective Cal Weaver makes a simple mistake and destroys everything he holds dear in Linwood...

"After Her" (William Morrow), by Joyce Maynard   Joyce Maynard's latest novel, "After Her," is loosely based on the 1980s Trailside Killer case, in which a serial...

"Tell No Lies" (St. Martin's Press), by Gregg Hurwitz   A race to stop a killer begins when a piece of mail is delivered to the wrong person in "Tell No Lies," the...

Elizabeth Gilbert spent enough years as a memoir writer, and had so much success, that even her admirers forget that she started out in fiction.   "For all intents and purposes,...

The 60 poems in Lucilla Maclaren Spillane’s collection are written with a keen eye for detail and draw on her wide range of experiences in several countries. Some of the poems deal with...

"The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power" (University of Texas Press), by Kate Galbraith...

"Strong Rain Falling" (Forge), by Jon Land   The first four novels in Jon Land's Caitlin Strong series read like episodes from the "Die Hard" franchise, with the...