Monthly Archives: December 2013

Hogmanay  is the Scottish word for the last day of the year and is the start of a celebration which lasts in some cases through 2 January (Scottish Bank Holiday). Hogmanay traditions include bonfires, first-footing, and black buns. About these … Continue reading →

A read for Innocents Day:  Newtown by Matthew Lysiak offers a meticulous  account of  the Sandy hook school shooting.  His reportage of the killers descent into violence and of the fatal events is meticulous.  Lysiak does not pretend to resolve … Continue reading →

Alan Johnstone’s article The Looting of a 16th Century Library in An article in the BBC News Magazine tells how thousands of rare volumes were looted from one of Italy’s oldest libraries by a gang of thieves that included the … Continue reading →

Here is a bakers dozen of new stories in our top-circulating genre. The stories include puzzles and procedurals, cozies and noirs, and suspense, either of the romantic or the white-knuckle variety. In White Fire by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, … Continue reading →