The Attenbury Emeralds

In Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, Dorothy Sayers created a sleuthing twosome for the ages. Jill Paton Walsh's third Sayers-inspired novel is a deftly executed tale in which the couple, now happily married, find all sorts of challenges to occupy themselves in post-WWII Britain, including an old case of Lord Peter's that just won't die.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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