by Clea | Mar 2, 2010 | Boston Globe
Meant to post this review, which I wrote for the Boston Globe. Belatedly… “Does truth, as well as beauty, exist in the eye of the beholder? That’s one of the questions posed in Bellwether Prize-winner Heidi Durrow’s heartbreaking debut, “The Girl Who Fell...
by Clea | Dec 8, 2008 | Boston Globe
David Liss has returned to historical mysteries with The Whiskey Rebels, a thoroughly enjoyable book. As I wrote in today’s Boston Globe:”Blame the speculators! Banks are unstable, and the nation itself appears on the verge of collapse. Americans have...
by Clea | Oct 15, 2008 | Boston Globe
Well, I’m not the first and I’m afraid I won’t be the last, but I’m now a victim of the economy. Although I focus this blog on my crime fiction (and occasional book reviews), for the last 12 years I’ve also written a weekly column for the...
by Clea | Sep 11, 2008 | Boston Globe
What’s in a name? If you’re Dr. Hector Carpentier, an impoverished young physician in 1818 Paris, everything….(my review of Louis Bayard’s The Black Tower in today’s Boston Globe).
by Clea | Jul 8, 2008 | Boston Globe
Now, there are clearly Kathryn Harrison fans out there, but I’m not one of them. I just found While They Slept, her take on the Gilley family tragedy to be narcissistic and unnecessary.
by Clea | Jun 9, 2008 | Boston Globe, Probable Claws, Theda Krakow
It’s 90 degrees out and I’m trying to rouse myself to go back to revising the manuscript I put aside to finish “Probable Claws,” while “Probable Claws” is with my editor. Wouldn’t this be a great day to take a break? Yes, but...
