For all those who thought that crime thrillers are serious stuff, here’s a book to make you change your mind. Tom Ripley returns as the audacious crook now living the good life in France, married to a rich & beautiful girl. There is reference to his past life as Dickie Greenleaf’s friend but the story [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Ripley Under Ground
Posted in Reviews, tagged crime, Patricia Highsmith, Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Thomas Ripley on February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Disappearing Spoon
Posted in Reviews, tagged Chemistry, Periodic Table, Popular Science, Royal Society Science award, Sam Kean, science books, The Disappearing Spoon on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What a fascinating and enjoyable book this is! The periodic table is something that we all learn about first in school and then for most of us, its relegated to a corner of the brain hardly ever figuring in our daily lives. We know the table exists but it barely registers on the surface. In [...]
A Murder of Quality
Posted in Reviews, tagged A Murder of Quality, crime, George Smiley, John le Carre on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
John Le Carre’s likeable and intelligent detective George Smiley is requested to investigate a murder in one of England’s leading schools. The victim seems to have foreseen her own murder but as Smiley finds out when he gets there, everything is not as straightforward as it seems. The police are unable to penetrate the upperclass [...]
My Friend Maigret (Mon Ami Maigret)
Posted in Reviews, tagged crime, French detective, Georges Simenon, Maigret, Simenon on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Maigret series had been a conspicuous omission from both my collection and the list of books that I have read, so when I came across this English translation of Mon Ami Maigret, I couldn’t wait to start on it and judge for myself how good this much-written about French detective is. I enjoyed the [...]
