About Books, September 25, 2010

Camilla Lackberg, Swedish author of The Ice Princess, has written seven mysteries in seven years. All take place in a real town, Fjallbacka, and involve Erica Falck, a writer, and detective Patrik Hedstrom. Neither of these two are the dark characters we've come to expect from Scandanavian myster writers. Camilla says she is more interested in normal people. But the stories are absorbing. Be sure to check out Camilla's web page. She includes a tutorial on writing mysteries.

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About Books, September 18, 2010

Jennifer Steil is the author of The Woman Who Fell From the Sky: An American Journalist in Yemen. Steil accepted the position of editor of a Yemeni newspaper and her book is a wonderful account of her experience there. You will learn all about the culture, cuisine, treatment of women, politics, the press, etc. And her falling in love with the British Ambassador is the frosting on the cake.

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About Books, September 11, 2010

Lainey Salisbury and Aly Sujo have written a fascinating true story of art forgery titled Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art. It takes place in England from the mid 1980's until the mid 1990's. The con man is John Drewe and the forger is John Myatt. They successfully fooled art collectors from London to Manhattan to Paris.

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About Books, September 4, 2010

Nathaniel Philbrick, author of The Last Stand, says that he has long been interested in human behavior in a self-contained, structured community. Usually he has written about life aboard ship. Now he explores life in a nomadic Indian village and in a cavalry regiment. The result is one of the most interesting histories I have read.

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