LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

Two years after the windfall in Case Histories that left Jackson Brodie a wealthy man, he's in Scotland with his girlfriend, who's ...

Having run out of mysteries by Donna Leon and Michael Connelly and C.J. Sansom and P.D. James and Peter Lovesey, I am deeply grateful to w...

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. --Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food In The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) , science journalist Micha...

This week the company my husband works for unveiled the health-insurance plans available to us beginning July 1. If we chose the plan closes...

Ten years ago Nora Gallagher wrote Practicing Resurrection , a memoir involving her brother's death, her Episcopal parish's response...

If you're already a Donna Leon fan, all I need to tell you is that the 22nd Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery was published March 26. I...

It seemed appropriate last week, when my dentist was replacing five fillings, to show him the book I was reading: The Tooth Tattoo by Briti...

If you eat food, here are two newish books you should know about. You may already have met Robert H. Lustig, author of Fat Chance: Beating t...

I'm not normally a fan of online book clubs. I mean, what's the point? Book clubs should be events where friends get together to eat...

One of my fiscally conservative friends told me I should read this book if I wanted to know why Keynesian economics are a politican's be...

The test of a really good mystery: you can read it more than once and still get caught up in the story, even if you remember whodunnit. To b...

I was barely awake, and my mother was already screaming. I knew Papi would start yelling in a second. That much was routine, but the substan...

The long wait begins: Americans will not see Downton Abbey Season 4 until next January, though Britons will see it in September (however, t...

When I saw this book's title in a New York Times  review last month, I thought it might be similar to Jon Katz's engaging 2003 book...

Thanks to my friend Anne Buchanan, who recommended Morag Joss 's Sara Selkirk mysteries. Anne knows the kind of mysteries I like best. I...

Barbara Kingsolver's newest novel, Flight Behavior  (November 2012), may be just the book you're looking for for your next book grou...

After writing 21 detective novels featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, it's not surprising that author  Donna Leon needed a break. Sti...

[Me, reading a nonfiction book  approved by my mother] In 1997, faced with a daunting commute, I decided to devote train time to reading for...

Les Misérables  - the film - opened yesterday, and David and I were in back row center (my favorite seats) for the six o'clock showing. ...

Harry Bosch fans, it's time to pour yourself a Fat Tire (one of Bosch's favorites), put Art Pepper's " Patricia " (Bo...