Continuing my entanglement with the Criminal Element, I parse two very different British TV crime miniseries: Ordeal by Innocence and Bodyguard. The cast of Ordeal by Innocence “A country house, a dead body, a pack of suspects—sounds like Agatha Christie, no? … Continue reading →
More consorting with the Criminal Element led me to read someone else’s book about a disgraced architect: The Fallen Architect is an atmospheric novel featuring an intriguing mystery, a sympathetic lead (who can also draw and paint), and a (literally) … Continue reading →
My other recent run-in with the Criminal Element lands me on the right side of the law, with a review of FBI memoir Ghost: The career-end autobiography seems to come in two flavors. The vanilla version is from the person … Continue reading →
The Burrow goes to Weimar for my latest scrape with the Criminal Element, a review of the hit German TV series Babylon Berlin: Despite its utter failure to provide stability for the German people between the wars, the late Weimar … Continue reading →
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 →
