Briar Patch Books

Tag: French history

  • Mystery and history

    If you want to find a new, enjoyable mystery series, ask Bob Moyer. He is the expert. Here’s his review of No. 21 in what sounds like a good series set in Paris. Another one to add to my list… Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer HUGUETTE. By Cara Black. Soho Crime. 336 pages. $29.95, hardcover.…

  • An American journalist in Paris on the eve of its collapse

    Paul O’Connor, soon to join the ranks of published authors of nonfiction books, reviews a recent nonfiction work that combines biography, journalism,  history, crime, politics and more. He finds it  well worth reading. Reviewed by Paul T. O’Connor THE TYPEWRITER AND THE GUILLOTINE: AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST, A GERMAN SERIAL KILLER, AND PARIS ON THE EVE…

  • A house filled with tears

    Rob Moyer loves detective fiction, it’s true. But from time to time, his interest in human nature – including its darker sides – takes him into the serious nonfiction realm, and particularly into the horrors of the Holocaust. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer LETTERS TO CAMONDO. By Edmund de Waal. Farrah, Straus and Giroux. 182…