by Aseem Gupta | Dec 30, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham is best known for legal thrillers, but Skipping Christmas is a much smaller and stranger kind of book: a suburban Christmas comedy about what happens when one couple decides that the entire holiday machine is optional. First published by Doubleday in...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 17, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Scott Meyer’s Destructive Reasoning begins with a comic detective team already caught between two kinds of police work. One is the ordinary work of identifying criminals, following evidence, protecting people, interviewing suspects, and making arrests. The other is...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 4, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Scott Meyer’s The Authorities is a comic murder mystery about a young Seattle police officer who finally gets the detective job he wants, only to discover that he has been recruited as much for his potential as a media spectacle as for his investigative ability. First...
