I picked “The Rock Hole” off the New Mysteries shelf entirely because of the author’s name. I just knew “Reavis Z. Wortham” had to be an old country boy who could tell a good tale. And by golly, I was …
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Thank heavens for travel books, which allow squeamish, shower-requiring sissies like me to have vicarious adventures while avoiding all sorts of uncomfortable actual experiences. (Delhi belly, typhoid shots and flying Air Rarotonga come to mind.). Travel books also have allowed …
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Sherlock Holmes was not the first literary detective in history (that honor goes to C. Auguste Dupin, the detective in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue“), but he is without question the most famous. Which naturally has made …
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How could any mystery-loving, country-western-dancing, Kansas-City-raised gal resist a title like Holmes on the Range? Not me, for sure! The minute someone mentioned this book to me, I snatched it off the library shelf. But despite the kickin’ title, I …
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You are so through with elaborate holiday food. It was luscious while it lasted: the cherry-and-pecan-studded hams, the tri-colored potato swirls, the designer vegetable platters, the adorable cookies. Now it’s time for midwinter austerity. Plain, simple food. Like root vegetables. …
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Along with a good mystery, I do love an unconventional heroine, and author M.J. McGrath provides both in her new novel, “White Heat.” Edie Kiglatuk is barely 5 feet tall, half Inuit and half qalunaat (white), and a respected Arctic …
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