Mystery
Destination: Paris Book: Murder in the Latin Quarter(2009) by Cara Black You can win this book by leaving a comment below (see end of post). I often think of Alfred Hitchcok and the MacGuffin when I read a mystery. To Hitchcok, the core of a mystery was the MacGuffin, a physical object that eludes the [...]
PDF Destination: Tucson, Arizona Event: Tucson Festival of Books, 2011 [See more photos on my Facebook page] The Tucson Festival of Books has grown rapidly in its three years. Organizers say there were 100,000 people there in March 2011, and I think that is true. Print PDF
THE GREAT AMERICAN ROAD TRIP Destination: Los Angeles, California Book: Farewell My Lovely (1939) by Raymond Chandler I had not read the hard boiled detective stories for quite a while, and I had forgotten what fun Raymond Chandler can be. I had also forgotten how openly racist and sexist was the society that he wrote [...]
Happy 1-11-11. The Giveaway today moves over to another Blog….read on…. Destination: Diné Bikeyah (Navajo Country) Book: Tony Hillerman’s Landscape: On the Road with Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, by Anne Hillerman, with Photographs by Don Strel (Nov. 2009) No book can be THE PERFECT BOOK, I suppose, but this one comes darned close for [...]
NOTICE: For a recipe that sweeps you back to a Vienna Coffee Shop, follow this link to My Kids Eat Squid. Destination: Vienna Book: A Death in Vienna (2004) by Daniel Silva A GUEST POST by Kristin J. Gough Print PDF
DESTINATION: Egypt Book: Death Comes at the End by Agatha Christie A GUEST POST by Dr. Benedict Davies As the regulars at A Traveler’s Library know, I love historical travel. Dr. Davies, who shares his love of Egypt here, has a great new company that provides audio guides to historic sites. See an announcement from Iconic [...]
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The Great American Road Trip An Author Interview Destination: Minnesota Book: Vermillion Drift by William Kent Krueger (NEW August 2010) Latest in the Corcoran O’Connor mystery series. Print PDF
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Destination: Southern Arizona Book: White Heat by Brenda Novak (NEW August 2010) What fun to read a novel set in a place I am very familiar with., the first in a triology of romance mysteries by the prolific Brenda Novak, takes place in the far southeastern corner of Arizona. The towns of Portal and [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: New Orleans, Louisiana (1817) Books: A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly (1997) New Orleans Noir, edited by Julie Smith (2007) People of color could be classified in a dozen ways like mulatto, griffe, octoroon, musterfino and more. But whites were classified, also. Besides the Spanish, there were [...]
