This is an excellent suspense story by J. A. Jance. I generally rate Jance as a “4” on my 1-5 scale. This particular book is a bit better than that. It is not a mystery in any sense. I don’t normally read pure suspense, but a combination of mystery and suspense generally does interest me….
Analysts try to put a face on Jack the Ripper proclaims a story on MSNBC. It’s interesting, though not surprising, to see how much attention this mystery gets 118 years after the murders took place. One wonders whether the ripper would have been quickly caught with modern crime fighting techniques, given the amount of information…
I don’t usually do this, but I want to mention a book I haven’t read. While displaying books at Pine Forest United Methodist Church craft show on November 11, I had a chat with author Mark Miller about his book Chasing Faith. It’s going to be some time before I’ll have time to read the…
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I participate each week in the Christian Blog Carnival, but I generally submit just one post from the Participatory Bible Study Blog. Nonetheless I like to link from all my blogs to the carnival post. I’ve been forgetting to post it here, however. So here goes . . . Rev-Ed has recovered from election day…
Over the weekend my wife watched (or started to watch) three movies, and I thought I would comment on them. First was X-Men: The Last Stand. Just like it’s two predessors, this was a horrible movie, and I didn’t finish watching it. My wife managed to get to the end by skipping forward a lot….
Considering that Keith Laumer is one of my favorite authors, and that David Weber is on my “read everything he writes” list, it’s not surprising that I found this book fascinating. Laumer was happy to go off in different directions with the bolo series, but those who have taken it up since his death have…
Well, I’m back from the Charisma Book Expo, a conference/expo sponsored by Charisma Magazine to be both a spiritual experience and highlight books and resources for the charismatic Christian market. What’s of potential interest to readers of this blog is that two of the major speakers at the conference have turned to fiction writing for…
I’ll be out of town at the Charisma Book Expo from today (September 26) through Monday (October 2), so no new blog entries. Have fun all!
Somehow I didn’t catch this one when it came out in 2005, so I just got to reading it last week. I think I’ve already made it pretty clear that I like Andrew Greeley’s writing, though in most of his books one of the key reasons is theological. I think he produces the best representation…
