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If you are like me you enjoy annotated editions of classics. Well two brand new annotated tomes of WIND IN THE WILLOWS have just been released to fine reviews. :flowers:

The new series on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY features a new MIss Marple. Sadly disappointing in all ways. :sad:

Some of you may be old enough to remember ADVISE AND CONSENT when it came out. I am and I do. I remember reading it and feeling as though I was privvy to the goings on behind the scenes of Congress and the rest of government. The following essay appears in the latest (6/25/09) issue of the NYT...

As of June 21, 2009 PBS began a new Hercule Poirot series. The first story was CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS ... I gave it a "B" :whistling: ENJOY

PBS has begun a new Poirot series on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY. It began w/ CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS on June 21@9pm in Ct. ENJOY;)

IF FANS OF CONNELLY'S HAVE BEEN A BIT LET DOWN OVER THE PAST FEW BOOKS HAVE NO FEAR ... HIS NEW ONE ... 'THE SCARECROW' ... IS A **** TREAT. HE REPRISES JACK McEVOY (SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER HIM FROM 'THE POET') AND RACHEL MANNING F.B.I. THEY PLAY SO WELL OFF EACH OTHER AND THE STORY IS A VERY...

I recently read a newspaper piece about a young couple who have put together a 'RAYMOND CHANDLER MYSTERY TOUR' of the places in San Francisco that appear in his books. It's 4 hours on a bus and the cost is about $60.00 I wonder if they will succeed. :confused: Would you take the tour...

Maybe it's my age but i have reached a point in reading mystery writers where i want more than ordinary fare. Perhaps i have turned into a snob and (which is not a bad thing in my world) seek more challenging works than those by 'popular' writers who tend to write the same story over and over...

the birthday present by barbara vine is an absorbing thriller about an mp who plans a birthday surprise for his mistress and of course everything turns into a catastrophy. Finely limned characters allow readers to sympathize or not and take them to the surprises ending. High tension and randy...

I've read Patricia Cornwell's SCARPETTA and I thought it was terrific. I have read all of her novels and I know that she has stumbled from time to time but I always gave her another chance. Now I'm glad I did ... SCARPETTA is a big book and I read it in a week-end. :stars4: :D

I am almost finished with Tana French's second novel: THE LIKENESS. I enjoyed her first book: IN THE WOODS and when the new one was released I bought it immediately. Took me a little while to get to it but it was worth the wait. This book has such a far out plot that it morphs into an...

Per wahloo and georges simenon are not the only wonderful crime writers in translation. To miss these people is to miss a major element of mystery/thriller/suspense novels. Try: henning mankell peter hoeg andrea camillieri luis alfredo garcia-roza steig larsson arnaulder indridason...

Henning Mankell is a treasure that English speaking people are now able to read. Not unlike Georges Simenon (another master) he has his detective who is a flawed man with many personal problems and who is married to his job. Mankell's 'murders' are fascinating and the way Wollander goes about...

JOYCE CAROL OATES has just published MY SISTER, MY LOVE ... The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike. "Of course Oates, fluent in the valor and vulnerability of girls in our aggressively sexualized world, would be drawn to the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey. But she is also imaginative and...

Has anyone had the pleasure of reading JOSEPHINE HART? DAMAGE, the first novel of her I read knocked my socks off. She is a genius who doesnt' get enough publicity. I read THE RESURECTIONIST next and was equally entertained. This is a lady who demands to be read. [You may have seen the...

Sometimes I get a little confused when I see fellow members asking specific questions about specific books or post questions asking for genre books. I have no problem with their posts and I often answer the questions. But my response usually includes the suggestion of putting whatever...

HI In 2006 George wrote WITH NO ONE AS WITNESS a book starring Lynley, his wife Helen and partner Barbara. They were after a seriel killer. But something happens that changes not only the lives of the characters but the whole course of what has become a trilogy. In 2007 she wrote WHAT CAME...

BARBARA PYM Not necessarily a name that is easily recognizable ... but a writer of seemingly simple books that creep up on readers as they become more and more submerged in her plot and prose. I've read quite a few of her books and I wonder if anyone else has had the pleasure. I just...

A few nights ago CHINATOWN was on and I enjoyed it more than the 3 other times I've seen it. T feel that way about TRUE CONFESSIONS; FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN; PARALLAX VIEW; THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR; HITCHCOCK'S FILMS BEFORE PSYCHO; FRENCH LT'S WOMAN; OUT OF AFRICA; SOPHIE'S...

HI These two women are at the top of my favorite writers list. Both have written novels and non-fiction that has been groundbreaking and superb. Both have won the Nobel Prize for LIterature. They each write about women; relationships between the sexes; madness; children and mothers (parents)...