by Howard Leighton | Apr 25, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, War & Military
Edward G. Lengel is a military historian whose books have centered on the Revolutionary war, particularly on George Washington, and on World War I. This book is the second with a focus on the American involvement in the battle of the Meuse-Argonne in the north-eastern...
by Howard Leighton | Mar 20, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
Five years ago, Jonathan Santlofer, a writer of crime novels and an artist, was working in his New York loft apartment. His wife, Joy Santlofer, a food writer and historian, was reclining on their living room sofa after having had outpatient knee surgery the previous...
by Howard Leighton | Feb 13, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
A semi-retired public defense lawyer, Janet Moodie, living in a small town north of San Francisco is contacted by an appeals lawyer, Mike Barry, with whom she had previously worked. Janet reluctantly agrees to help him with a death sentence appeal for an inmate on...
by Howard Leighton | Nov 23, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Ilka Jensen and her mother Karin live in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ilka works as a school photographer. They were abandoned by Ilka’s father, Paul, when she was seven years old. He moved to live in the United States leaving large debts including a funeral home. The only...
by Howard Leighton | Oct 1, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology
Thankfully the author of this book has chosen to write about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a manner that is understandable to those of us without a significant background in physics, mathematics, or computer science. Additionally he has structured his book in three...
