Book Talk: Two departures by McFadden
The Devil Wears Scrubs Because Freida McFadden is a physician, I wondered if any parts of this story were autobiographical. “The Devil...
Jim Glynn
Jul 31, 2024
Book Talk: David Baldacci, ‘Simply Lies’
“Mickey Gibson wiped the spit-up off Darby’s face, and then gave her two-year-old daughter a plastic squeaky ball, hoping that would hold...
Jim Glynn
Jul 23, 2024
Book Talk: Carcaterra, 'Gangster'
Lorenzo Carcaterra’s “Gangster” (2001, 406 pages in paperback format) is a book that I wish I’d been able to read before I read Mario...
Jim Glynn
Jul 16, 2024
Book Talk: Lisa Scottoline, ‘Corrupted’
If you’ve read any of Lisa Scottoline’s “Rosato and Associates” or “Rosato and DiNunzio” books, you might think that Bennie (Benedetta)...
Jim Glynn
Jul 10, 2024
Book Talk: Two thrillers by Steve Martini
“Guardian of Lies” by Steve Martini (2009, 438 pages in hardback edition from William Morris) During the early 1960s, it’s probable that...
Jim Glynn
Jul 2, 2024
Book Talk: Freida McFadden, ‘One by One’
Freida McFadden is a practicing physician. She specializes in brain injury, lives in a centuries old three-story house in New York City,...
Jim Glynn
Jun 26, 2024
Book Talk: Cavanagh, ‘Kill for Me, Kill for You’
I can’t think of a better mystery writer whose debut novel was published after 2014 than Steve Cavanagh, an Irish lawyer who no longer...
Jim Glynn
Jun 19, 2024
Book Talk: Thomas Perry, ‘The Old Man’
Twenty years ago, Army Intelligence sent Michael Kohler to Libya with $20 million for Faris Hamzah. Hamzah was then to deliver the money...
Jim Glynn
Jun 11, 2024



