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I wrote last week about the subtitled Swedish film version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which just opened in New York. As sure as the...

Hello, world -- here comes Esme

Through methods too devious to mention, I just saw the subtitled Swedish version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, the first of the lat...

I've been accused of not spending enough time on so-called "cozies" -- gentler mysteries more gris than noir. Mea culpa . (Rem...

[THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, RUTH] THE HIDDEN MAN, by David Ellis (Putnam; $25.95) If you've just been the prosecutor who ...

In L.A. Outlaws , T. Jefferson Parker introduced Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy Charlie Hood, sent up to the Antelope V...

He'll probably be pissed at me for saying it, but Ed Gorman is the tooth fairy of the mystery world -- dispensing not only ...

CROSSERS , by Philip Caputo Early in Philip Caputo's complex and elegant new novel, we first meet Ben Erskine. It is 1903, and Ben ...

One of the best jobs I ever had was editing a London men's magazine called TOWN in the 1960s. It was in the Esquire tradition, was p...