September 18, 2016
Modern-day hero cop, Catholic to boot
Move over Hercule Poirot and Adam Dalglish. John Delano has supplanted both as the most endearing sleuth of modern fiction.
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August 30, 2014
The struggle between ideals and pragmatism
Crimes Against My Brother by David Adams Richards (Doubleday Canada, hardcover, 416 pages, $32.95).
David Adams Richards is a writer who knows the human soul and reveals it to us in dialogue, plot and inner reflection. It’s the author’s extraordinary access to the truth of being human that makes us care about his characters. We know them, and what brings them joy, pain, hope, despair, guilt and peace matters to us.
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