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The Cuckoo's Calling  Author: Robert Galbraith John Bristow, sister Lula Landry, an internationally famous model, has fallen to her death.  The police say it’s a suicide, but Bristow seeks out a private detective, as he is sure that it is murder.  He walks into the office of private detective Cormoran Strike, ex military who lost one leg in Afghanistan.  At first, Strike agrees with the police, until things stop adding up.  Strike agrees: Landry was murdered.  But by whom? Strike’s a mess.  ... continue reading...

Point & Shoot Author: Duane Swierczynski After reading Duane Swierczynski’s Hell and Gone, I felt tantalized, that feeling that overcomes you when you find an author that sits you down then knocks you off the chair. Tantalized, Mesmerized, Stupefied (in the worlds of John Nash, A Brilliant Mind). Point and Shoot, the last novel in a spectacular trifecta, (Fun and Games, Hell and Gone, Point and Shoot) delivers, once again, one of the audacious characters in recent crime fiction: Charlie ... continue reading...

Brutal Simplicity of Thought How It Changed the World Author: Maurice Saatchi From Boomerang Books review: “Simplicity looks easy. It's not. It's easier to complicate than simplify. This book presents stunningly simple examples of concepts that have changed the world - from the single piece of paper that became the American Declaration of Independence, giving birth to the most powerful nation in the history of the world, to the symbol and line that enables us to write music. ... continue reading...