Les Roberts’s latest hard-boiled crime novel introduces Brock Sheehan. Sheehan sits on his houseboat in a Lake Erie marina ten years after retiring as a persuader for the Irish organization on the west side of Cleveland. He drinks Bushmill’s Black…
Category: Ethics
Review: By Way of Sorrow by Robyn Gigl
By Way of Sorrow by Robyn Gigl My rating: 4 of 5 stars Erin McCabe and Duane “Swish” Swisher, criminal defense attorneys, are asked to defend a Black transgender woman accused of murder. Erin is a white transgender woman, and…
Review: Crime, Guilt and Identity
Blind Faith by Alicia Beckman Leslie Budewitz, writing as Alicia Beckman, presents her second non-cozy novel, a gripping story whose characters struggle with moral and religious issues and the challenges of their personal histories. Lindsay Keller is a lawyer whose…
Zachary Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Can John Maynard Keynes teach us anything new for dealing with the problems created by the covid-19 pandemic? Hasn’t his thought been thoroughly integrated into current economics? (“We’re all Keynesians now.”) We can learn something, argues Zachary Carter, maintaining that…
Review: “Bitter Medicine” by Sara Paretsky
This is the 4th novel in the V. I. “Vic” Watshawski, P. I., series, an interesting story of murder and medicine, set in 1985 or ’86. The central issue is, who killed Dr. Malcolm Tregiere, the assistant at the women’s…
Bowling Alone: Who does watching the Super Bowl hurt?
frankieleon Like millions of others, I need to decide whether I’m going to watch the Super Bowl. In other years that choice was either a no-brainer or simply a matter of pragmatics (do I have a papers I need to…