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Larry Clow

Larry Clow is a writer and editor and frequent nerd trivia champion. He is working on his first book, People You May Know, about adoption and social media. He’s written for newspapers and magazines throughout New England for 15 years and is always ready to be the cleric in your Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Find him online at larryclow.com.

The Edgar Awards Revisited: Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Best Novel, 2017)

By Larry Clow

March 20, 2020

Early in Before the Fall, Noah Hawley’s 2017 Edgar Award-winner, protagonist Scott Burroughs describes himself as a “disaster survivor in that he had survived the disaster that was his life.” A middle-aged painter and recovering alcoholic, Scott lives on Martha’s Vineyard in a beach shack with a three-legged dog. After years of struggling, his newest…

Book Review: Secret Service by Tom Bradby

By Larry Clow

November 21, 2019

From British journalist and bestselling author Tom Bradby, Secret Service is a thriller that follows senior MI6 agent Kate Henderson as she races to unmask a Russian mole in the UK government. What if your next national leader was a Russian spy? Oh man, can you even imagine? A prime minister or, say, a president,…

The Edgar Awards Revisited: Come to Grief by Dick Francis (Best Novel, 1996)

By Larry Clow

October 25, 2019

“Grief can be dangerous.” Sid Halley, one of author Dick Francis’ few recurring investigators and the protagonist of the 1996 novel, Come to Grief, says this just after having his arm broken by a vengeful widower armed with a length of pipe. It’s something Halley knows all too well. By the events of Come to…

Book Review: Land of Wolves by Craig Johnson

By Larry Clow

September 17, 2019

Land of Wolves is the new novel in Craig Johnson’s beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series, in which Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is neck-deep in the investigation of what could or could not be the suicidal hanging of a shepherd. After a journey to the deserts of Mexico in his last novel, Craig Johnson…

Book Review: The Passengers by John Marrs

By Larry Clow

September 10, 2019

You’re riding in your self-driving car when suddenly the doors lock, the route changes and you have lost all control. Then, a mysterious voice tells you, “You are going to die.”

Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh

Book Review: Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh

By Larry Clow

August 8, 2019

Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father’s murder.

Book Review: Black Sun by Owen Matthews

By Larry Clow

July 19, 2019

In Black Sun by Owen Matthews it is the dawn of the 1960s, and KGB officer Major Alexander Vasin must investigate the gruesome death of a brilliant young physicist at a top-secret research city where a cutthroat brain trust is developing a nuclear weapon with 3,800 times the destructive potential of the Hiroshima bomb.  Alexander…

Book Review: City of Omens by Dan Werb

By Larry Clow

June 21, 2019

For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city’s lifeline is brutally severed.

Book Review: Joe Country by Mick Herron

By Larry Clow

June 13, 2019

Joe Country by Mick Herron is the sixth book in the Slough House espionage series. Though home to MI5’s least wanted, Slough House—the setting for Mick Herron’s ongoing series about unlikely spymaster Jackson Lamb and his menagerie of disgraced agents—is not without its secrets. In Herron’s sixth novel in the series, Joe Country, those secrets…

Book Review: Those People by Louise Candlish

By Larry Clow

June 12, 2019

From Louise Candlish, author of the international bestseller Our House, Those People is a story of domestic suspense that asks, “Could you hate your neighbor enough to plot to kill him?”  There are bad neighbors—people who, say, let their dogs use your front yard as a toilet or start their yard work a little too…

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