Didn’t you love that photo of Melon the cat? Well, his person – a librarian – weighs in on the book here.”If,” she writes, “you like multiple stoylines, an academic sleuth who is less practical than she likes to imagine, and some...

An indie bookseller on PARROTS PROVE DEADLY

From the Kingdom Books blogClea Simon’s companion feline is named Musetta — and there’s a photo on Simon’s blog of this canny cat, staring into the computer screen. Whether Musetta can guide Simon in plotting, who knows? But the years of...

Me and Alan Furst

Oh, don’t I wish!But I was thrilled to see two new reviews this morning. The first informed me that the BBC adaptation of Furst’s “The Spies of Warsaw” begins tonight, and I’ve set the DVR (9 p.m. Eastern). Love his books – so...