A Cozy Author Goes Dark: Ten Dark Mystery Favorites As a writer of British “cozies” (I’m never going to reconcile myself to that label, especially when it’s spelled that way), I have quite a strong preference for the dark and dangerous end of the genre spectrum. But my tastes range widely and are constantly changing. […]
Top Ten Culinary Mysteries Le mauvais gout mène au crime. Bad taste leads to crime. _____Baron Adolphe De Mareste (1784-1867) “The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste” from Lord Peter Views the Body, Dorothy L. Sayers, 1928 This was included in Sayers’s first short story collection and involves a blind tasting of […]
Harlot’s Ghost by Norman Mailer This wonderful book ends with the three most anticlimactic words in literature—to be continued—but those are the only ones that disappoint. It tells the story of Harry Hubbard, son of a spy, whose own career in the CIA charts the heady Cold War days when the agency seemed to hold […]