A crime novel with a prevailing environmental message, “The Glass Eel” was an interesting read. Set in Maine, it featured plain talking Maine women, and unscrupulous men, motivated by g…

Virtual Memories Show 690: Jonathan Ames “My goal is creating that sensation for the reader of having to turn the page. It’s like a kind of music.” Jonathan Ames returns to celebr…

A crime novel with a prevailing environmental message, “The Glass Eel” was an interesting read. Set in Maine, it featured plain talking Maine women, and unscrupulous men, motivated by g…

A crime novel with a prevailing environmental message, “The Glass Eel” was an interesting read. Set in Maine, it featured plain talking Maine women, and unscrupulous men, motivated by g…

A crime novel with a prevailing environmental message, “The Glass Eel” was an interesting read. Set in Maine, it featured plain talking Maine women, and unscrupulous men, motivated by g…

A crime novel with a prevailing environmental message, “The Glass Eel” was an interesting read. Set in Maine, it featured plain talking Maine women, and unscrupulous men, motivated by g…

A crime novel with a prevailing environmental message, “The Glass Eel” was an interesting read. Set in Maine, it featured plain talking Maine women, and unscrupulous men, motivated by g…

5/5: One For My Homie I cannot help thinking the late, great Ken Bruen has something to do with the power failure we just experienced in Lakemore, Ohio. Bruen’s brand new book, “Galway’s Edge,” was...

A crime novel with a prevailing environmental message, “The Glass Eel” was an interesting read. Set in Maine, it featured plain talking Maine women, and unscrupulous men, motivated by g…

A crime novel with a prevailing environmental message, "The Glass Eel" was an interesting read. Set in Maine, it featured plain talking Maine women, and unscrupulous men, motivated by greed. I live in Nova Scotia, so Maine, being almost 'next door' has a lot in common with its American neighbour. We share some of the same type of regulations in the elvers industry.

A crime novel with a prevailing environmental message, “The Glass Eel” was an interesting read. Set in Maine, it featured plain talking Maine women, and unscrupulous men, motivated by g…

My Review: “The Kingdom of Heaven runs on righteousness, but the Kingdom of Earth runs on oil.” Which is where this story begins. Because that quote may be from World War II, but journalist Danielle Moreau has come to Ghana in the here and now chasing a story with that same idea in mind. Not that bit about the righteousness in Heaven, but the part about Earth and oil. She thinks she’s got the story of a lifetime by the tail - and she does. But the story she thinks she has is a story about Ghana selling its natural resources - particularly oil - to global powers both East and West, and the inevitable consequences that result from the influx of all that money combined with the universal forces of greed and corruption.

My Review: I picked this up because of the author and series. The Inspector Ian Rutledge series has been on my ‘comfort murder’ read list for a while now, but it’s 20-something books in and I know I want to read them all. And I will, as soon as the 'round tuit' circles its way. But it meant that I couldn’t resist this holiday novella, as it fit in perfectly with the theme of my Holiday Readathon reads this year - as they do seem to be mostly murders.

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A crime novel with a prevailing environmental message, “The Glass Eel” was an interesting read. Set in Maine, it featured plain talking Maine women, and unscrupulous men, motivated by g…