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FILE - In this March 15, 1973, file photo President Nixon tells a White House news conference that he will not allow his legal counsel, John Dean, to testify on Capitol Hill in the Watergate investigation and challenged the Senate to test him in the Supreme Court. A feisty Nixon defended his shredded legacy and Watergate-era actions in grand jury testimony that he thought would never come out. On Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, it did. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)

New book examines Nixon White House through Butterfield’s eyes

Sunday, November 29, 2015

For Bob Woodward, former president Richard Nixon and “the president’s men” who surrounded him are the gift that keeps on giving. His latest book is about Alexander Butterfield, the military officer who parlayed his college friendship with H.R. “Bob” Haldeman at UCLA into a job years later as Haldeman’s deputy in the inner circle of Nixon’s White House. Butterfield’s variety …

Baldacci knows how to keep the pages turning in ‘The Guilty’

Sunday, November 29, 2015

David Baldacci proves you can’t go home again in The Guilty, his latest thriller featuring professional assassin Will Robie. Robie takes a typical assignment and shoots someone using a sniper scope. Unfortunately, he not only eliminates the target, but also a young child standing behind the victim. The tragedy rips Robie apart, and …

Job requirements: Bravery with a touch of insanity

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Smokejumping is insane. There really is no other word for it. The job starts with men and women flying in a tin can of a plane over forest fires strong enough to create their own weather patterns and turbulence. Then they leap into the smoky void, often landing on rugged terrain. Once on …

Therapy camp turns into hostage crisis in ‘The Masked Truth’

Sunday, October 25, 2015

When what she assumes will be a typical night of baby-sitting ends in a home invasion and double murder, 17-year-old Riley Vasquez finds herself dealing with a case of post-traumatic stress disorder and more publicity than she would …

‘Dark Reservations’ is briskly paced novel

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Politics, greed and Native American artifacts provide a sturdy foundation for the compelling debut by John Fortunato, the latest winner of the Tony Hillerman prize. The Hillerman Prize is awarded annually to a debut author whose crime fiction …

‘Age of Clinton’ is a romp through the ’90s

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Remember the 1990s? Headlines and cultural touchstones ranged from the O.J. Simpson verdict and the Oklahoma City bombing to Harry Potter, the “Macarena,” Nirvana and Titanic. It was the dawn of the Internet Age, the first time most …

Author Jen Mann brings good chidings to you and your kin

Sunday, October 25, 2015

The wisecracking, self-proclaimed underachiever behind the popular blog and book People I Want to Punch in the Throat is back with a holiday essay collection that’s both bah humbug and bahaha funny. The stories that author Jen Mann …

‘Find a Way’ likely to charm fans of swimmer Diana Nyad

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Diana Nyad writes the way she speaks – exuberantly capitalizing the job titles of her swimming support team members, name-dropping her way through anecdotes about her public life at a historic time for women in sports, colorfully detailing …

‘What You See’ will keep readers engaged and enthralled

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Author Hank Phillippi Ryan has won numerous awards for her series featuring Boston reporter Jane Ryland and Detective Jake Brogan. She’ll probably need to clear some shelf space for more of them with her latest novel, What You …

‘The Real Justine’ makes you ask for more

Sunday, October 18, 2015

A man walks into a bar. This is not a joke, but the moment that kicks off Stephen Amidon’s thriller The Real Justine. The bar is at a Chinese restaurant in the upstate New York town of Annville, …

‘Reclaiming Conversation’ explores minutiae of human relationships

Sunday, October 18, 2015

You’re at the dinner table, or in a meeting, or at a baseball game, or in the classroom, or in your bedroom, or at a bar or, yes, in the bathroom – and you’re on your phone. You …

‘Shaky Ground’ explodes three myths surrounding financial crisis

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac haunt our financial system and threaten our economy. Or do they? Bethany McLean has written an insightful guide to one of the fascinating true- financial-crime cases of our time. Writing with the easy, …

‘Strong Light of Day’ is preposterous – and wildly entertaining

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Even in a genre devoted to action, violence and apocalyptic conspiracies, Jon Land’s Caitlin Strong thrillers have often veered toward the extreme, but in Strong Light of Day, the seventh book in the series, the author has outdone …
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