"Singularity" by Kathryn Casey (St. Martin's Minotaur, $25) ...more

July 13, 2008

widower, asks Quirke to skip the postmortem. The thought of his beautiful wife, Deirdre, being cut up is too much for Billy. Although Quirke agrees, his instincts lead him to go where he should not. Quirke simply cannot avoid trouble, for he has an inquisitive mind. The story places the reader directly in foggy Dublin, with its duality of church and pub. ...more

May 25, 2008

LAKELAND - Divers are trying to remove a body found floating this morning near an alligator in a canal of Saddle Creek Lake, the sheriff's office reported. ...more

May 17, 2008

'My partner and I are both decent players,' a reader writes, 'but we're not meshing as a pair. Our bidding has gotten better, but when we're on defense we seem to operate on different wavelengths. How can we save our partnership?' ...more

September 23, 2007