Top stories published by Nina Sankovitch in May of 2010

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May 24, 2010

Venice in August, with Donna Leon and Commissario Brunetti

Donna Leon’s latest Commissario Brunetti mystery is as good as all of the Brunetti novels, and they have all, every single one of them, been great. Leon is the master of atmosphere and character, and the plots she comes up serve…

Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

May 27, 2010

Intertwined Lives and Stories: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman is a funny and moving book about the life of an international English-language newspaper and about the intertwined lives of the very different people who own it or manage it or…

Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

May 17, 2010

The Book of Right and Wrong, by Matt Debenham

The stories in Matt Debenham’s debut collection, The Book of Right and Wrong, are quietly and beautifully brilliant. Debenham presents luminescent briefings of specific turning points in lives. Both the lives and the turning points are so real and so…

Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

May 10, 2010

Books and The Spies Who Love Them

The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds is a good thriller, based on the age-old legend of Ivan the Terrible’s lost library. The library dates back to the wedding dowry of Sophia of Constantinople upon her marriage to Ivan the Great. Passed on to her son, Ivan the Terrible…

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May 7, 2010

Remembering A Special Corner of London

Coin Street Chronicles by Gwen Southgate is an her memoir of an under-privileged childhood that was nevertheless bountiful in experiences, characters, and history. Gwen was born in 1929 to a mother of strong ideas and big dislikes, and a father who, having…

Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

May 12, 2010

Women of the Revolution

Lucia St. Clair Robson’s latest historical novel is the thrilling Last Train from Cuernavaca, set during the Mexican Revolution. Two women become caught up in Emiliano Zapata’s fight to bring land reform to the South and an end to poverty among the indigenous workers. Angela is a…

Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

May 5, 2010

Last Hope

John Hart’s The Last Child won this year’s Edgar Award for best novel, an award well-deserved. The Last Child is the best mystery I’ve read in a long time, a thrilling nail-biter that set my adrenalin pumping and my fingers turning the pages. I was up way past my bedtime to finish this book and stayed awake…

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May 4, 2010

Ancient Feminist

Linda Ferri uses the story of Saint Cecilia of Rome to portray the universality — across centuries, religions, and cultures — of the search for meaning in life. In her compelling novel, Cecilia, Ferri alters the accepted facts of Cecilia’s life — Christian parents, pagan husband converted by her…

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