Continuing my entanglement with the Criminal Element, I parse two very different British TV crime miniseries: Ordeal by Innocence and Bodyguard. “A country house, a dead body, a pack of suspects—sounds like Agatha Christie, no? Of course, it does. It’s said … 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 →
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 once again be a guest on Garrett Miller’s Rated G internet radio program on Monday, 24 October, at 8:00 a.m. PDT. We’ll be talking about The Collection and whatever else Garrett comes up with, which can be pretty random. … Continue reading →
Another entanglement with the Criminal Element led me to discover Cleverman, a limited-run series on the Sundance Channel: We Homo sapiens have gotten pretty used to being the only humanoid species on Earth. So, what would happen if we somehow … Continue reading →
While running with the Criminal Element, I checked in with The Night Manager. Here’s what I found: If you’ve made your name writing about Cold War espionage, what do you do when the Cold War ends? If you’re John le Carré, … Continue reading →
I’ll be a guest on Garrett Miller’s RATED G Internet radio program on Tuesday, 17 May at 7:00 p.m. PDT. We’ll talk about my books, careers, and whatever else he comes up with. Garrett interviews authors every Tuesday night. While … Continue reading →
In another brush with the Criminal Element, I introduce the new Sundance limited-run series The Last Panthers. They really existed, you know. The Pink Panthers. The Panthers were a confederation of Balkan thieves, many with military experience in the Bosnian and … Continue reading →