Review of Solaris, a science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, first published in 1961, now available (since 2014) in a direct-to-English translation by Bill Johnston.
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One for Sorrow
Review of One for Sorrow, the first in the John the Lord Chamberlain mystery series, by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer, which is set in sixth century Constantinople, also known as Byzantium.
Verse of the Vampyre by Diana Killian
Verse of the Vampyre opens with Grace Hollister hiding in a graveyard, late at night, waiting for — well, spying on — Peter Fox, who’s to meet with a mysterious woman. Grace has been anxious to know why Peter has distanced himself from her, at the same time a series of robberies have occurred in the vicinity of Innisdale. Is Peter up to his old pursuits? And if so, which? Women or jewels?
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Robert Langdon is an American expert on symbolism and art, visiting France to speak before The American University of Paris. He’s wakened in his hotel room late at night and summoned to the Louvre Museum by the French Judicial Police. The museum’s esteemed curator, Jacques Saunière, has been murdered in the Grand Gallery, where many of the Louvre’s masterpieces reside, particularly the Mona Lisa….
High Rhymes and Misdemeanors by Diana Killian
Grace Hollister is there on vacation from her teaching position at St. Anne’s Academy for Girls in Los Angeles, and to do research for her doctoral dissertation on the poets of the Romantic period. If you think that sounds like a tame, pastoral and rather too academic stroll, this mystery will surprise you from the first sentence, when Grace Hollister finds a man lying face down in a stream, left for dead by an unknown assailant.
To Wear The White Cloak by Sharan Newman
A good book pulls you in and holds your attention through the story so well that, when it ends, you want more.
Sharan Newman’s To Wear the White Cloak held me this way.
Before I Say Goodbye by Mary Higgins Clark
Before I Say Goodbye by Mary Higgins Clark started out slow for me, mainly because I don’t consider politicians all that intriguing. However, I kept reading and I’m glad I did.
He Shall Thunder In The Sky by Elizabeth Peters
He Shall Thunder In The Sky was the second of Elizabeth Peters’ books that I’ve read . . .
Canis by Robert E. Armstrong
In Canis, by Robert E. Armstrong, the head of Houston’s Bureau of Animal Regulation & Care is Dr. Duncan MacDonell, a man of compassion, intelligence and common sense who’s already doing what anyone will recognize as a difficult, depressing, and thankless job. Then street people begin to turn up dead…
Beacon Street Mourning by Dianne Day
In Beacon Street Mourning, Fremont Jones, suspicious her ailing father is being neglected by his wife Augusta, returns to Boston to see him. Her father begins to improve, then suddenly dies. Fremont must solve what she believes to be murder by poison, while others, including his doctor, contend that her father died of natural causes.