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Murder in the Family

November 10, 2023

murder

Somehow this ended up being a week of true crime fiction and nonfiction so I’ll carry the theme through to the end with Murder in the Family, a novel about the making of a Netflix documentary about an ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, London, murder, mystery

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

July 7, 2017

midnight

  I’m a sucker for fiction about books and bookstores so to find a novel about them that is also set in Denver, Colorado (where I lived and still have family living) means I didn’t have any ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: debut, murder, mystery, Scribner

Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice after Serial

September 19, 2016

adnan's story

  If you were one of the millions of people like me who were addicted to the podcast Serial then you may remember Rabia Chaudry. A family friend of the Syeds she is also a lawyer and has been a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: American life, book clubs, murder, St. Martin's Press, true crime

The Light in the Ruins

July 8, 2013

The Light in the Ruins

  The Light in the Ruins, Chris Bohjalian’s latest novel, is set at the Villa Chimera in Tuscany in 1943, a pastoral estate where the war is largely unseen. The Rosatis are a titled Italian family ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, Doubleday, historical fiction, Italy, murder, mystery, Nazis, WWII

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