In new memoir, Jeff Tweedy ruminates on lessons learned as songwriter and family man
As Jeff Tweedy would admit — and more or less does in his new memoir, “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)” — his life hasn’t been all that interesting,...
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Sara Paretsky, Tana French lead this week’s roundup of crime fiction
“Shell Game” by Sara Paretsky, Morrow, 400 pages, $27.99 There has always been a streak of Joe Friday in V.I. “Vic” Warshawski. If some investigators drift away from the facts...
Review: Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling) is back with ‘Lethal White’
A bit past the midpoint of the fourth Cormoran Strike mystery — at 650 pages the "Moby-Dick" of the series — the one-legged private investigator and his devoted female assistant,...
Julia Keller’s latest Bell Elkins novel tackles opioid crisis, plus other reviews in our crime fiction roundup
“Bone on Bone” by Julia Keller, Minotaur, 307 pages, $26.99 Few, if any, mystery writers have treated the opioid crisis as powerfully as former Tribune columnist Julia Keller does in...
Exploring the highs and lows of espionage in 3 new thrillers
“Safe Houses” by Dan Fesperman, Knopf, 416 pages, $26.95 In Baltimore-based spy master Dan Fesperman's latest, the past eerily overlaps with the present via two artfully linked stories. In 1979,...
Murder abroad: Crime fiction roundup features thrillers set in France, Italy and Spain
“Murder on the Left Bank” by Cara Black, Soho Crime, 288 pages, $27.95 Continuing her marvelous mystery tour of Paris with her 18th Aimee Leduc mystery, Cara Black finally makes...
Crime fiction to heat up your summer reading list
Get your summer thrills with novels from Megan Abbott, Michael Koryta and Val McDermid. “Give Me Your Hand” by Megan Abbott, Little, Brown, 352 pages, $27 (July 17) After one...
Crime fiction reviews: Latest from Philip Kerr, Jo Nesbo and Michael Kardos
"Greeks Bearing Gifts" By Philip Kerr, Putnam, 528 pages, $27 With Philip Kerr's recent death, spy fiction lost one of its prized authors — and, in intrepid investigator Bernie Gunther,...
Suspense sets ‘Bosch,’ others apart
The welcome return of "Bosch," a strong sequel (of sorts) to "Narcos," another dark, intriguing mystery from Belgium: Sometimes there's reason to turn to tried and true sources of top-notch...
Walter Mosley’s lastest novel: All the more relevant in Black Lives Matter era
Long before the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, novelist Walter Mosley was addressing the violent treatment of African-Americans by police. In "Devil in a Blue Dress" (1990), the...