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Vintage Connor: The Blonde in the Lotus Elite

Vintage Connor: The Blonde in the Lotus Elite

by Site Owner | Feb 5, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller

by Robert Baty R.J. Buckley Publishing, $19.00, 324 pages ‘Vintage’ Connor, so-called because of his love for vintage cars (mostly the European variety), has channeled this near-obsession into a new occupation. He chases down and finds very special automobiles for his...

The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War

by Site Owner | Oct 2, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History

By Bernard Cornwell, Harper, $25.99, 480 pages The last ten words of this novel (from Historical Notes) are ‘history is a fickle muse and fame her unfair offspring.’ Indeed. Sometimes the best author cannot turn a specific bit of history into a compelling work of...

The Winner’s Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success

by Site Owner | Sep 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Self-Help

By Jeff Brown & Mark Fenske with Liz Neporent, Lifelong Books, $15.00, 240 pages “Use it or lose it” is useful advice for any part of the human body, and especially the brain. In fact, the more you use it, the less likely you are to lose it—or any of its...

A Gentleman of Fortune or, the Suspicions of Miss Dido Kent

by Site Owner | Sep 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller

By Anna Dean, Minotaur Books, $24.99, 335 pages Anna Dean certainly has the Regency touch down pat! This series has everything the devoted Regency reader could want: mystery, a touch of romance, the language, the fashions, the locales – marvelous! In Regency England,...

Errol & Olivia: Ego & Obsession In Golden Era Hollywood

by Site Owner | Sep 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater

By Robert Matzen, GoodKnight Books, $34.95, 224 pages Was there ever a more gorgeous example of male pulchritude than the 30 year-old Errol Flynn? That’s how old he was when he was Robin Hood, and he seems to have been 360° of photogenic. Of course, for the guys,...
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