Let’s get this Friday started!
Cleopatra, that living matryoshka doll
I was looking up a recipe for roast chicken with garlic and honey when an Internet rabbit hole opened up in front of me and down I fell, resurfacing many clicks later on a BBC story about silphium. Silphium is or was an herb, an aromatic like garlic, that back in the day grew in…
Caesar was always anxious to grab as much loot and land as he could because he was constantly in arrears with his own troops.
Abduction of a Slave, the fourth Eye of Isis novel (see below for the first three plus buy links, natch) launches on the previous Saturday, January 25, at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore. If you can’t attend in person you can watch on Facebook Live and YouTube, and you can preorder your signed first edition right…
Isis4 Q&A
My editor at Head of Zeus writes, “Hello Dana,The US team have asked if you would complete a quick Q&A – this is aimed at the US book trade and should be a nice boost for Tetisheri in the run-up to publication.” Here you go, Greg. Q&A for Dana Stabenow They are both smart, observant…
Favorite reads of 2024
Click through the links below to read my reviews. NonfictionTim Marshall’s The Future of Geography.Nathaniel Philbrick’s The Last Stand. MysteryAllison Montclaire’s Sparks & Bainbridge mysteries.Ariel Lawhon’s The Frozen River.Martin Walker’s A Grave in the Woods.James R. Benn’s The Phantom Patrol.Stephanie Barron’s Jane Austen series. Science fictionS.M. Stirling’s Emberverse series.Marko Kloos’ Frontlines series. I read each…
So essentially the federal government, in actions both set in motion and not taken, was itself the author of the 7th Cavalry’s defeat.
I bought this book at the visitor center at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in May and started reading it immediately, having been so powerfully affected by the ranger talk and the driving tour of the battlefield. The good news is that it is very well written. The bad news is that this is…
There can’t be anyone who has ever occupied the Oval Office more selfless than Abe.
I heard Goodwin talk about this book on NPR, and she sounded like she’d been an eyewitness to the events. Sold me the book. On June 17th–I’ve been a hundred pages from the end for ten days. I don’t want Abe to die. July 17th — Okay, I finally made myself finish. Abe’s dead and…
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A bait-and-switch plot that keeps you guessing right to the end
Read in 2009:The twenty-fourth Dalziel and Pascoe novel. Hill still at the top of his game, maybe even more so in this stripped-down tale of Dalziel’s first case after getting blown up by a bomb in The Death of Dalziel. All of the action takes place over one fraught day, and all the usual suspects,…
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The Roadhouse Report – May 2024
The adventure continues…you know, like it always does. Greg, my editor asked, Would you be up for writing a short piece – say 500-ish words – on your research for the Eye of Isis books and ABDUCTION OF A SLAVE in particular? (Please note, he cleverly timed this request between the Friday I submitted…
That prologue has creeped me out from that day to this.
Blogger’s note: Tomorrow sees the publication of From the Ashes, the 14th Nick Dixon novel in Damien Boyd’s stellar police procedural series. Just to prime your pump I reprint my review of the sixth in the series, which was the first one I read. That prologue has creeped me out from that day to this.…
Read more That prologue has creeped me out from that day to this.