Sonny's Castle Dangerous

466 pp., Penguin Books, 2008 ISBN 978-0-14-311562-5 (pbk) Here's another smasher from Tana French. I’m ready to declare this one ...

A prospector discovered this 70-ounce gold nugget in Butte County, California in October. It's amazing that something so large went unde...

I read 37 books in 2014. That’s hardly surprising, since I was either unemployed or retired, depending on how you view it, for eight of tho...

Construction workers found about $60,000 in small bills hidden inside a wall while remodeling an old house. The house, built in 1910, is typ...

In her review of Stephen King's latest novel, Revival (Scribner, 405 pp), Danielle Trussoni notes that the book "...is filled wit...

Treasure hunters in England have unearthed a hoard of over 5,000 coins from the Dark Ages in a  farmer's field near Aylesbury,  Buckingh...

Viking Penguin; 452 pages;  August 2014 eBook ISBN 978-0-698-17028-5 Tana French has won much praise for her five thrillers, with good reas...

I'm the only person you know who bothers to think of things like this, let alone write about them.  But bear with me. Once again, I'...

On a snowy winter day, I was checking my mail box at the post office. A little girl was trying to buy stamps from a vending machine, putting...

A treasure hunter with a metal detector has unearthed a hoard of Viking gold and silver, one of the most significant ever discovered in Scot...

This phrase, or something close to it, appeared in a Rolling Stone review of the first album by the band It's A Beautiful Day. As import...

A treasure hunter discovered 22,000 Roman coins in Devon.   "Initially, I found two small coins the size of a thumbnail sitting on top...

My wife is out of town. Having nothing better to do, I watched this 1983 Chuck Norris/David Carradine action movie last night. It's so b...

Hardcover ,  272 pages Scribner, August 14, 2012 ISBN :  1451666683   (ISBN13:  9781451666687 ) A highly enjoyable novel. To my mind,...

The  Knickerbocker Hotel in New York has been closed since 1920. Now, it's being restored. While cleaning out the basement, workers unco...

Someone cleaning out an old house in England found a "junk box" containing coins. Most were worthless, but one turned out to be...

On this day in 1908, the Tunguska event occurred in Siberia. Most scientists believe it was an asteroid airburst explosion. But a few people...

Discovered in 2009, this is considered to be one of the most important hoards ever found.  Link:  Anglo-Saxon hoard revealed: 4,000 pie...

With lots of time on my hands now, free to do whatever I please, I have discovered an exciting activity: sorting the newspaper! As I read...

Knopf  Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012 320 pp. ISBN-13:  9780307949073 e-ISBN: 978-0-385-53584-7 This is the sort of novel t...