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The Merry Mysogynist by Colin Cotterrill
| ROBERT H. ABEL | 09 March 2010
I've come late to COLIN COTTERRILL's series of novels featuring the elderly Lao coroner and man-about-Vientiane, Siri Paiboun, but if THE MERRY MYSOGYNIST is anything like the previous five novels, they must be quite a party. In this novel, Cotterrill juggles four or five subplots while dishing up a main entree of a psychopathic seducer who preys on women of marriageable age and limited means.
In addition, Cotterill... [ more ]
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A Lion in Paris by Beatrice Alemagna
Fledolin Upside Down by Antje Damm
On the Tip of a Pin by Geeta Dharmarajan
| KARMEL SCHREYER | 05 March 2010
These all come from a lovely publisher in India called Katha, a non-profit organization committed to improving literacy in that country (ten percent of sales proceeds from the book goes to Kathashala, a school for underprivileged children) and also to planting trees to replace the ones they need to make their books. www.katha.org
A LION IN PARIS is the playful alleged story of the Lion of Belfort, the famed... [ more ]
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