James Patterson’s recent outing for profiler Alex Cross was, to be blunt, a disappointment. The premise is that Alex Cross has left the DC police and joined the FBI in order to have more time with his family. We’ll leave the obvious point that this is unrealistic and scarcely credible alone, chalking it up to […]
“I bid good-by to a friend last night,” she said through her tears in the morning. “I loved him well, and he loved me, but he is gone today and will not return.” Why? We sought for an answer to the question, “Why?” “The question is vexed,” said the first. “There is no ‘why.’ There […]
Sorry I haven’t felt like writing much. Apart from the occasional thought that the only ones reading this blog are poker spammers, we’ve had something a little more pressing to deal with around here.
OK, a flood of comment spam is one thing. But my email server (not located on this server) coughed up a hairball and I’ve lost about 3 months worth of email. No evidence yet of Foul Play involved, but it does make me a tad irritable.
My latest batch of mystery books, by Anne Perry, leave me a little puzzled. I’ve written before about her books (liked the Pitt — Cater Street Hangman — but not the Monk) but I may be changing my mind. To the extent that I may not be able to finish the latter one. The Pitts […]