Jim Glynn
Book Talk: Lisa Gardner, ‘Gone’
Sergeant Detective Kincaid, Major Crimes, Oregon State Police, is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call from one of his...
For The Madera Tribune
Letters: America
First of all, I’d like to say what a great time is to be an American, and to be living in the greatest country in the world, The United...
For The Madera Tribune
Letters: On Chief Walter Thomas
As I was reading Bill Coate’s article about Chief Thomas, I thought about one little incident I had with the Chief. I was nine years old...
Jim Glynn
Book Talk: Paul Levine, ‘State vs. Lassiter’
I’m a fan of Paul Levine and especially his protagonist Jake Lassiter. “State vs. Lassiter” is the tenth book in the series, the...
For The Madera Tribune
Letters: Doomsday
I have heard about this day since I was a kid. Now we have a “doomsday glacier” the size of Florida, in the Antarctic. It’s melting, they...
Jim Glynn
Book Talk: Carcaterra, ‘Apaches’
Lorenzo Carcaterra was born and raised in New York’s infamous Hell’s Kitchen in 1954, so he is intimately familiar with the state’s...
For The Madera Tribune
Commentary: California’s climate rules leave working class behind
The next time Governor Gavin Newsom puts on his detective hat and tries to get to the bottom of the “price gouging” that is supposedly...
Jim Glynn
Book Talk: Lisa Jackson, ‘Born to Die’
Coincidence. Usually, I don’t care for mystery novels that are based on coincidence. Lisa Jackson’s third book in her Regan...