"Almost Midnight," by Paul Doiron (Minotaur) In nine previous crime novels, Paul Doiron's protagonist, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch, has made more than his share of friends and enemies. Now,...

"Evergreen," by Howard Owen (Permanent Press) When Willie Black was 15 months old, his father, Artie Lee, was killed in an apparent automobile accident. That's all Willie — police reporter...

"Black Mountain," by Laird Barron (Putnam) Like a lyricist, Laird Barron excels at manipulating the tones and cadence of language. Like a Gothic novelist, the mood he creates is often...

This novel was published first in 1977 by Klabb Kotba Maltin when the events of the Prague Spring and the 1968 invasion by Russian troops was still fresh in people's minds. It has been...

"Big Sky," by Kate Atkinson (Little Brown) Former soldier and policeman Jackson Brodie, who last appeared nine years ago in "Started Early, Took My Dog," makes his long-anticipated return in Kate...

"Paper Son" by S.J. Rozan (Pegasus Books) S.J. Rozan's affinity for little known facts about Chinese culture has fueled exciting thrillers featuring private detectives Lydia Chin and Bill Smith....

Ittri mill-mitħna tiegħi is the translation of a collection of short stories, Lettres de mon moulin, mainly located in Provence by the French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) published...

Here are a few things which you never knew about butterflies: they use their antennae to smell things, they are born super famished and there are butterflies in the world as big as a 30cm ruler. Now,...

"Shoot me." Ruth, a gaunt, haunted Jew who had miraculously survived the atrocities of the German concentration camps, ordered the young doctor in front of her. It was a few months after the end of...

Some time ago, I had reviewed for these pages Carmel Scicluna's Ossessjoni. In this book of poems I am reviewing today we find, at least in the first part, the same theme of a grown-up man's obsession...