Materfamilias Writes

More mysteries

More mysteries

Lee Child’s are not the only mysteries I’ve read lately. I’ve also worked my way through Stephen Booth’s The Dead Place, Quintin Jardine’s Autographs in the Rain, and Val McDermid’s Beneath the Bleeding, all of…

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Lee Child’s Jack Reacher

Lee Child’s Jack Reacher

Having just come back from a few days in Toronto, I was primed to appreciate this, from Lee Child’s Without Fail: Every city has a cusp, where the good part of town turns bad. Washingon…

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Richard Zimler’s The Last Kabbalist in Lisbon

Richard Zimler’s The Last Kabbalist in Lisbon

This past spring, in preparation for our trip to Lisbon, I read two novels set in that city, Pascal Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon and Robert Wilson’s A Small Death in Lisbon, which between them…

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