
Novel: The Moscow Sleepers by Stella Rimington
With The Moscow Sleepers (2018), Stella Rimington extends her Liz Carlyle series to its tenth volume, and it’s another…
May 25, 2019With The Moscow Sleepers (2018), Stella Rimington extends her Liz Carlyle series to its tenth volume, and it’s another…
May 25, 2019Stella Rimington’s Liz Carlyle series is like an unexceptional but comfortable and friendly pub. The food isn’t spectacular, but…
December 23, 2016Stella Rimington’s latest Liz Carlyle thriller is Close Call (2014), another no-nonsense, authentic procedural that maintains the series’ steady,…
September 18, 2014The latest installment of Stella Rimington’s Liz Carlyle series, The Geneva Trap (2012), is another quick, engaging read. Like…
December 28, 2012“Season six” of Stella Rimington’s Liz Carlyle series, Rip Tide (2011), is one of its stronger outings, a fast,…
February 24, 2012With my to-read shelf threatening to collapse, I decided to lighten its load a bit with a book I…
November 7, 2011By and large, my reading is so fiction-centric that I sometimes forget about non-fiction. Or maybe it’s just that…
March 15, 2011When I think spy fiction, I think novels. Evidently, so do most writers of spy fiction. Agents of Treachery…
November 22, 2010Some of my pleasure-reading can be hard work, a necessary side effect of my fondness for challenging science fiction.…
September 18, 2010After a few science fiction books, I felt the need to turn back to spy novels for a while…
April 5, 2010Lately, reading spy novels makes me want to write my own, so in order to stay motivated for my…
February 17, 2010I found the first novel by Stella Rimington (At Risk, reviewed here) promising, and I’m now happy to report…
February 3, 2010My ever-continuing search for effective spy novelists takes us next to the unimaginatively titled At Risk (2004), the first…
October 5, 2009