I haven’t been posting “South Tech Today” and “News from the Future” for a while because that’s now called “the front page of the newspaper.” However, this article in the Washington Post is (a) too absurd for even me to … Continue reading →
The Criminal Element meets Doha 12 in my latest review: Fauda is a vivid, fast-paced Israeli political thriller that features kinetic storytelling, expertly played tension, and highly authentic action sequences. It also finds time to present the human side of … Continue reading →
My latest entanglement with the Criminal Element takes me across the Florida Strait to the land of mojitos: The Las cuatro estaciones (Four Seasons in Havana) detective novels have brought Leonardo Padura fame, a certain amount of financial and political … Continue reading →
My latest run-in with the Criminal Element has me watching a TV show about a bad, bad man: The spectrum of “bad behavior” stretches all the way from kicking puppies to genocide. How despicable can the central character of a … Continue reading →
I’ll be appearing at Book Carnival in Orange, CA (348 S. Tustin Street) on Saturday, 10 February at 2:00 p.m. to talk about Stealing Ghosts, read an excerpt, and sign books. With me will be David Putnam, author of the … Continue reading →
I’m abetting the Criminal Element again, this time with an article about the most spectacular modern art forgery scandal of the last twenty years. Between 1994 and 2008, Knoedler & Company — the oldest art gallery in the United States — … Continue reading →
I’ll be appearing at Book Carnival in Orange, CA (348 S. Tustin Street) on Saturday, 3 June at 2:00 p.m. to talk about The Collection, read an excerpt, and sign books. Book Carnival is an independent bookstore dedicated to mysteries … Continue reading →
In yet another scrape with the Criminal Element, I talk about an operation smuggling a different sort of pot (not the green kind) from Thailand into the U.S. A crowd gathered outside the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California, on … Continue reading →
It was time to dig for some more room here at the Burrow, so I’ve made perhaps the most changes at one time since I built the place. The Collection is the start of a series. The DeWitt Agency Files … Continue reading →
A post for my blog went free-range on me and ended up on Criminal Element. It’s a true-crime story that may sound a mite familiar if you know what The Collection is about: “In December 2002, two burglars broke into … Continue reading →
