As a mystery novel, “Those Opulent Days” is well-plotted ... And by linking it to a faded period of history, presaging the United States’ own tragedy in the Vietnam War, she establishes ...
While he dove into the history ... and humbling." A book event at the Village School drew about 65 people, and Woolworth has appeared on podcasts appealing to culinary and mystery fans; he even ...
By Sarah Weinman In Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions destroy his city’s social and political order.