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☆ Mysteries: Michael Connelly’s ‘Resurrection Walk’
  + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Tom Nolan | Michael Connelly | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
He hires his half-brother, Harry Bosch, the retired LAPD detective who is the central character in another series by Mr. Connelly, to sift through it all and find plausible candidates for similar resurrections. Grab a Copy Resurrection Walk By Michael Connelly Grand Central Publishing 400 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million BookshopBosch chances upon Lucinda Sanz, an imprisoned woman who pleaded no contest to the murder of her ex-husband, a sheriff’s deputy shot dead on her front lawn. Sanz claims she was pressured by her attorney to accept a deal in the face of damning physical evidence, and insists she’s innocent. Bosch tends to believe her.
Persons: Mickey Haller, Michael Connelly’s, ” Haller, ”, Haller, “, Harry Bosch, Connelly, Michael Connelly, Barnes, Bosch, Lucinda Sanz, Sanz, ruefully Organizations: Lincoln Lawyer, LAPD, Michael Connelly Grand Central Publishing, Noble, Bosch, U.S, Central, Central District of Locations: Angeles, Central District, Central District of California
☆ ‘Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties’ Review: Wide-Screen Wonderland
  + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Tom Nolan | Foster Hirsch | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
What was the greatest decade in the history of American movies? Buy Book Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million BookshopAs exhilarating as that span was, the movie industry itself was experiencing a number of crises. As Mr. Hirsch observes in “Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties,” the government forced studios to sell their theaters on antitrust grounds, while increasing numbers of moviegoers stayed home to watch their new televisions. Creative types had provocative stories to tell, rousing the wrath of censors—even as congressional committees investigated the presence of Communists in the business. Mr. Hirsch, a professor of film at Brooklyn College and the author of many books, has written an entertaining survey of this productive and problematic period.
Persons: Foster Hirsch, Eve ”, “, Eden ”, —, Barnes, Hirsch Organizations: Foster Hirsch Knopf, Noble, Brooklyn College Locations: “ An American, Paris, “, Hollywood
☆ Mysteries: Murder in Jane Austen’s England
  + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Tom Nolan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
‘I would not have people murdered only so that . I may investigate,” asserts 17-year-old Juliet Tilney, the precocious leading lady in Claudia Gray’s “The Late Mrs. Willoughby,” set in England in 1820. “But if murders take place regardless of my wishes, can it be wrong to seek answers? And if it is right to seek answers, then it cannot be entirely wrong to take some pleasure in doing so.”
Persons: ”, Juliet Tilney, Claudia Gray’s “, Willoughby Locations: England
☆ ‘I Know Who You Are’ Review: To Catch a Predator
  + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Tom Nolan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
For a dozen years in the late 20th century, a lone criminal psychopath spread terror throughout much of California. “From his very first known offense,” writes Barbara Rae-Venter in “I Know Who You Are,” her account of her key involvement in the hunt for this elusive predator, he “committed at least 13 murders, dozens of rapes, and some 160 other violent offenses—possibly the most atrocious series of crimes in U.S. history.”Early in the perpetrator’s spree, the press called him “the Visalia Ransacker,” then “the East Area Rapist,” and later “the Diamond Knot Killer.” Finally, he was dubbed “the Golden State Killer.” His campaign of “profound, rampant evil” ceased in 1986, but three decades later, when Ms. Rae-Venter became involved with the case, he was still at large. No one knew if he was even alive.
☆ Mystery: ‘Blaze Me a Sun’ by Christoffer Carlsson
  + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Tom Nolan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Two brutal acts on a night in 1986 set the saga in motion. On a Stockholm street, Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated. That same evening, in Halland County, a man calls the local police station and says: “I raped a woman in a car. It’s near Tiarp Farm. I’m going to do it again.
☆ Mysteries: Anthony Horowitz’s ‘The Twist of a Knife’
  + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Tom Nolan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
“The Twist of a Knife” is the fourth entry in a gleefully witty series in which author Anthony Horowitz pairs a fictional version of himself with detective Daniel Hawthorne to solve murders and write true-crime books about them. As the novel begins, “Anthony Horowitz” has just published the duo’s debut (“The Word Is Murder”) to good reviews. His agent is now reading the manuscript for the second book (“The Sentence Is Death”), even as Horowitz sets out to write the third title (“A Line to Kill”). Horowitz now says that three books with Hawthorne is enough; he tells his collaborator that their partnership has run its course. Horowitz declares his innocence, but Hawthorne reserves judgment: “Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?”
☆ Mysteries: A Cold Case for Harry Bosch
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Tom Nolan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Now retired after three decades with the Los Angeles Police Department, Michael Connelly’s long-running series protagonist Harry Bosch no longer bothers to cultivate a friendly image: “He actually enjoyed being the cranky old ex-cop in the neighborhood whom people were afraid to approach.”Bosch lives in a house overlooking the San Fernando Valley and enjoys a good relationship with his daughter, Maddie, herself a police officer. He has mostly made peace with his departure from the force, but there is one unclosed case “he hated to leave on the table”: the murder of the entire Gallagher family—father, mother, daughter, son—all killed by nail gun in 2013 and buried in the Mojave Desert.
☆ Mysteries: ‘Swann’s War’ by Michael Oren
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Tom Nolan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Michael Oren’s thriller “Swann’s War” takes place on the small New England island of Fourth Cliff, “a world utterly cut off from the real one.” It’s 1944, and World War II still rages. In charge of keeping the peace is Mary Beth Swann, who serves as the island’s de facto police captain while her husband, Archie, fights overseas. For the past two years the island has held a camp for Italian POWs. The prisoners, a mostly congenial lot, are well-tolerated by the locals and encouraged to take work on the docks. But one morning, fishermen find the corpse of one of the Italians in their nets; the man has been strangled and then dumped in the sea.
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