Maureen Corrigan

Book critic Maureen Corrigan tells us about some of the mysteries she and her friends are reading to help cope with the times. They include Hope to Die the new Laurence Block mystery featuring hard-boiled detective Matt Scudder; Journey into Fear (1940) a classic by Eric Ambler; Rouge Male (1950) by Geoffrey Household; The Ministry of Fear (1943) by Graham Greene; The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new short story collection Flights of Love (Pantheon) by Bernhard Schlink.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel London Bridges (Houghton Mifflin) by Jane Stevenson.

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Almost."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the novel Long Time No See by Susan Isaac, her sequel to her 1978 bestseller Compromising Positions.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Grand Complication a new novel by Allen Kurzweil that she says is perfect summer reading

Book critic Maureen Corrigan has an appreciation of writer Eudora Welty who died earlier this week, and a review of Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail by Bobbie Ann Mason

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews –The Fourth Hand— (Random House) by John Irving.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Ray Raphael's "A people's history of the American Revolution."