Sentence of Dave

To kick off 2026, I finished yet another Clifford D. Simak classic sci-fi novel, Ring Around the Sun , and this one is full of big ideas: p...

I am assuming Chris Pavone's The Doorman  will be the last book I finish in 2025, and it was my favorite-- a thriller with plenty of soc...

Time and Again is more profound and serious than most of the Clifford Simak books I've read ( Mastodonia,   They Walked Like Men , The G...

In Tana French's thriller, The Hunter , the rural Irish mountain town of Ardnakelty reminds me of the newish Bon Iver tune "Thing...

Tana French's novel ,  Broken Harbor,  is a crime procedural wrapped inside a portrait of insanity balanced atop a real estate crisis —a...

I just finished  The Trespasser  by Irish-American mystery writer Tana French-- this is the sixth book in her "Dublin Murder Squad...

Yesterday, I finished my first (and perhaps last) P.D. James mystery novel, A Taste for Death , and while I enjoyed the central mystery and ...

The Leopard  is the best novel by a Sicilian I have ever read . . . it is also the only novel by a Sicilian that I have ever read, I think--...

If you're a sucker for dinosaurs and charismatic megafauna, and you are curious about the legal and political ramifications of time trav...

If you're looking for some wild, hard-boiled crime fiction, where regular old psychopaths figure out how to navigate this lonely planet ...

The only thing better than a Craig Johnson Longmire mystery with all the usual fixin's-- the vast and desolate landscape of Wyoming, a w...

If I were to choose one genre-- and only one-- that I would have to read and watch for the rest of my life, I think it would be science-fict...

I was determined NOT to do "Dry January" for two very good reasons— 1)I’m already a moderate drinker  2) January is so dark, cold,...

The answer to the titular question is: the wych elm in the garden of Ivy house, the one keeping a sordid secret-- but it's going to take...

If you think  Lord of the Flies  is a bit tame and y ou want a book where the kids  really  go bonkers then check out Cixin Liu's  Super...

The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory by Andrew Bacevich addresses the question asked by Rabbit Angstrom in John...

If you want to read a totally fucked up book about a disgraced knight trying to protect a sanctified child in the bleakest of settings-- pla...

A Head Full of Ghosts , by Paul Tremblay, is a genuinely scary (and very transparent) pastiche of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived...

Robert B. Parker's fourth Spenser novel, Promised Land , is more about relationships than crime, and I should warn you: there's quit...

Mortal Stakes -- the third book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series-- is about things I love: athletics, the ethics of sports, a confli...