Bookish Briefs (8#) -

Miami Noir: An essay on the psychopaths in
The Shark Infested Custard by Charles Willeford.

# TV: This Weekend's International Mystery is
The Brothers featuring Wallander. Channel 17.2
in South Florida at midnight on Sunday/Monday.
Or check for your local station and time.

# Patrick Lennon writes about the off-beat author
Friedrich Glauser and his crime novel Thumbprint.

# Other Friday Forgotten Books worth checking out.

# Toby Litt shares a brief memoir of his life
in Prague during the Velvet Revolution there.

# Ahmed Rashid raises some questions about the would-be Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad. Why did he suddenly become violently radicalized?

# A Thrillers Roundup at The Guardian.

# Nebula award for The Windup Girl.

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