Among this week's half-dozen Paperback Picks is the 20th Harry Bosch detective novel and a nonfiction account of 10,000 American women who, during wartime, learned to break German and Japanese military codes. VIEW
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2018 Washington State Book Award winners include a former Seattle Times reporter
The awards, administered by the Washington Center for the Book, honor works of outstanding literary merit by Washington authors.
Walter Mosley mines identity and notions of right and wrong in ‘John Woman’
The prolific author's latest novel is a little bit crime story, and also a meditation on history, identity, power and sex. Mosley will discuss "John...
Crime fiction: Far-flung mysteries starring police detectives
Two crime novels — one set in the Shetland Islands of Scotland, the other in war-ravaged Vienna — bring detectives (and their work) to the...
A new voice of the Midwest arrives in Leif Enger’s ‘Virgil Wander’
American fiction has just a handful of enduring chroniclers in flyover country. But those who keep count of Midwest voices, can add a Minnesotan, Leif...
Phoebe Robinson gets real about confidence, honesty and writing in her own way
Comedian-writer-actor Phoebe Robinson, of "2 Dope Queens" fame, has a new book out: “Everything's Trash, But It’s Okay." Before she comes to town Oct. 19...