India Bridge is a seemly conventional upper-middle-class Kansas City housewife. Mrs. Bridge faces an existential crisis about growing older when ordinary events, like guests using bathroom guest-towels, trigger rage.
A new (2016) translation of Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille by Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson. Graveyard Clay is a black humor tale of the newly dead chatting at a graveyard. Originally published in 1949, Cré na Cille is a celebrated work of modern Irish literature.
Darren Mathews is a black Texas Ranger working the backwoods of Highway 59, an area he grew up in and dreamed of leaving. When Ranger Mathews is called deep into the backwoods to a town called Lark to solve a case of two murders: a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman.
A new (2016) translation of Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille by Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson. Graveyard Clay is a black humor tale of the newly dead chatting at a graveyard. Originally published in 1949, Cré na Cille is a celebrated work of modern Irish literature.
In postwar Japan, an aristocratic family must move from Tokyo to the provincial Izu due to financial constraints resulting from the death of their father. Told through the voice of unmarried daughter Kazuko, The Setting Sun, originally published in 1947, captures change from traditional values in postwar Japan.
A once famous lounge singer is found shot in her apartment. Detectives Carella and Hawes investigate if the murder was a simply burglary or something more. Visit the Brown Bag Mystery Readers and discuss this work of McBain’s 87th Precinct series.
Makina journeys from Mexico to the US to search for her brother and deliver a message.
