by Aseem Gupta | Dec 30, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 45 MinutesJohn 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...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 17, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 58 MinutesScott 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...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 4, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 56 MinutesScott 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...