Retired scientist, I read a lot, fiction and non-fiction, on a wide range of subjects, though science, politics, philosophy, law, science fiction and historical detective stories are favourites.
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Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy Anacrites, Falco has hit upon the perfect plan. …
The next Falco mystery - with the Roman Circuses of 'Bread and Circuses'
Follow up to The Firm
First-century Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco seeks a serial killer who keeps leaving the body …
As usual with Lindsey Davis the detective element also leads to insights into the Roman water supply system, even bringing the real Julius Frontinus in as a character.
Fictional account of the battles needed to free wrongly convicted prisoners, but based on real issues.
The exile of a Roman Mob Boss should lead to at least a temporary drop in crime, but does it?
The Ides of April is a 2013 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and …
Enjoyed to introduction to a new investigator member of the Falco family. Just a filled with insights into life in Roman times
The Ides of April is a 2013 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and …
I started this series somewhere in the middle with Fatal Legacy - looking forward to seeing how it starts.
I believe in the importance of Evidence Based Medicine, and Florence was a pioneer in the area.
In some places it reads more like an adventure story, but interesting insights into a different era.
Forensics with lots of twists and turns, and in this novel, plenty of shocks!
Chapter 1 - Stars, Seconds, Cylinders and Steam (Tolerance 0.1), tells of (John WIlkinson)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkinson_(industrialist)] and his precision boring machine, patented in 1774. It also mentions (John Harrison)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison] and his quest for a clock, usable at sea and sufficiently precise to measure Longitude - though this is covered in more depth in (Longitude)[https://books.paladyn.org/book/7043/s/longitude] by Dava Sobel.
When Kurt Wallander first appeared, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with …
Wallendars's first case introduces many recurring characters, such as his father. He is still technically a patrolman, but due to transfer to the detective branch. Although he makes some foolish decisions a murder would not have been solved without his persistence.
A 2023 nonfiction book by American neuroendocrinology researcher Robert Sapolsky concerning the neurological evidence for …
I will keep referring back to the Neuroscience 101 appendix, which is useful independent of the determinism discussion
Ford County is a collection of novellas by John Grisham. His first collection of stories, …
Often, when reading Grisham's stories, I discover something about the American legal system which I had not known, whereas these tales, although a good read did not particularly draw me in.
The intermingled threads are full of twists and surprises. A rare featuring of Network Time Protocol, and Certificate Expiry - though technical readers will be complaining that it does not work like that - but could this be yet another Red Herring?
