Sunday, June 04, 2006

Today's Inquirer ...

... puts the spotlight on mystery writer Donna Leon.

Petrona's own Maxine Clarke found Leon's latest, Through a Glass, Darkly, delightful: Mystery features life in Venice, death in a glass factory

Inquirer music critic David Stearns found Donna Leon herself delightful: How did she get so lucky? It's a mystery

Speaking of mysteries, Joyce Carol Oates, writing as Lauren Kelly, has one just out. Sarah Weinman rather likes it: By any name, Oates still probing the female psyche

Glenn Altschuler likes John Updike's Terrorist a lot: Updike's painfully human terrorist

And, as promised, Carlin Romano takes a closer look at Ayaan Hirsi Ali's The Caged Virgin: Women's treatment, to her, is the chief sin.

Sandy Bauers listens to Meg Mullins's The Rug Merchant: Lonely Iranian husband finds comfort in N.Y.

Also very much worth a look are two pieces by David Hiltbrand, a review of John Sandford's Dead Watch: D.C. villainy: Missing senator, suspect governor ; and a piece about Matthew Pearl and his new novel, The Poe Shadow: Mysteries: Poe's death, and a novel about it

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