

Hard Revolution, George Pelecanos
Book 4 of the Derek Strange series. George takes us back to Strange when he was a rookie cop back in D.C. in 1968. The year the town...


Somebody Told Me, Rick Bragg
Selected newspaper stories from Bragg… mostly from his period with the NY Times in the 1990s. What is nice about newspaper stories… they...


Hold Still, Sally Mann
I had never previously heard of Sally Mann. I picked up the book because she is from Lexington, Va, right down the road, and the idea of...


Through the Wilderness, Brad Orsted
This one was a heartbreaker. The author’s fifteen-month-old daughter died mysteriously while at the home of his Mother. Understandably,...


Soul Circus, George Pelecanos
Book 3 of the Derek Strange series. Strange and Quinn start off where the last book in the series ended. Strange is helping a local drug...


Hell to Pay, George Pelecanos
All right then, Pelecanos has got me hooked on Derek Strange and Terry Quinn. I must read the entire series. Book 2 follows a team of...


Right as Rain, George Pelecanos
The brilliant writer and author behind one of the best series in the history of TV, The Wire, introduces us, in the first of a series, to...


All Over but the Shoutin’, Rick Bragg
It’s easy to see after the first two chapters why this book was a NY Times bestseller back in 1997. Bragg is one of the most eloquent...


Drowning, TJ Newman
So, I haven’t read a beach-read book in a while.. the Grisham, Patterson-type book that takes a few hours to read in one go. I was...


Camera Girl, Carl S Anthony
I’m not all things Kennedy when a book is released, but this one was of interest... what made the extremely private Jackie Bouvier tick...



















