Green chiles might be red herrings—the heat’s on in Havill’s latest Posadas County mystery as Bill Gastner, former sheriff, learns there’s more to an old friend’s death than a simple heart attack. Gastner, now a New Mexico... Read More

“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues” Theodore Roosevelt once said. This sentiment lies behind H. John Lyke’s The Impotent Giant: How to Reclaim the Moral High Ground in... Read More

…a new Gospel will emerge early in the third millennium. Christ’s message will remain unchanged but the medium will be different. Three paintings will combine…to soften and heal the heart of modern man. Claire Lucas is a young... Read More

“I try not to write letters to the editor…” Richelene Mitchell reminded herself through 1973. “…they shoot people these days for having as many children as me unless you’re Ethel Kennedy.” This is the journal of a Scorpio... Read More

This is one hilarious yarn even though bloodshed begins with the first sentence. The initial spurt of gore emanates from Ed Lowry a loathsome San Francisco landlord who has either fallen or been pushed from the top of the building that... Read More

Energized Economics:From 1969 through 2004, fifty-seven economists were awarded the Nobel Prize. Nine of the recipients were members of the faculty, or associated with, the University of Chicago. In The Chicago School: How the University... Read More

Not since Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill have an American president and a British prime minister shared such a close and important partnership, says the author in this first-rate investigation of the Blair-Bush nexus with its... Read More

In its own riveting way, this novel vibrates with the urgency of an old-fashioned Alfred Hitchcock movie. Suspense builds with Hitchcock-like undercurrents, although the plot at times unfurls with the heavy-handed intensity of a National... Read More