The first line of Frazier’s new novel pulls you in: “Luce’s new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.” You just can’t quit after a line like that; you have to go on. Follow with “The children loved fire above all elements of creation,” and you have the beginnings of a tale of crime […]
When WikiLeak hackers took down MasterCharge, Visa, and PayPal after the arrest of Julian Assange, I thought of Stieg Larsson’s book, “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.” It’s a crime thriller. Fiction. Made up stuff, some would say. Yet the similarities between what happens in this last of the Millenium series and the headline-grabbing […]
The protagonist of this novel, Serena Pemberton, is evil, ruthless, loathsome, amoral, murderous, greedy, savage, vengeful… what else can I say about her? That she’s ambitious? She’s that. One other thing: she cannot bear a child. We can, at least, be thankful for that. This is the story of lumber barons Serena and George Pemberton […]
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