This week we feature a collection of great mysteries, alongside a discussion of why civilizations fall and a thrilling tale of a boy surviving in the wild.
Fiction An Analogous Thriller
‘River Rising’
By Athol Dickson
Pilotville, Louisiana, becomes a place of miracles when a stranger visits. But the stranger who performs miracles is searching for his earliest roots. He’s also helping to locate a missing young girl, and through her, the mysteries of the town will be revealed.
Bethany House, 2006, 304 pages
Trouble Is My Business
‘Raymond Chandler: The Library of America Edition’
By Raymond Chandler
Included in this grand collection of Chandler’s writings are all seven novels about Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective extraordinaire. There are also 13 short stories, the screenplay for “Double Indemnity,” and many of Chandler’s essays and letters. Marlowe is the guy you want when evil comes knocking and your world falls apart. He’s, as Chandler wrote in an essay, “a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it.” Newcomers will delight in the tangled plots and diamond-sharp prose….