He is a genial, jovial and dapper host, with just a hint of the sinister, tall and slender Jonathan Laury lurking in the shadowy basement, red lit and

Fargo, North Dakota, “the friendliest city in North America,” so long as you fit narrow definitions of who is on who is welcome at the ball game and

The summer of 1986 and Penny and her friends have graduated high school, she preparing to leave for the city where she will start her law degree but

It is an outback town of barbed wired fences, shut-down mills and closed minds, electricity pylons stretching to the promise of a distant horizon which can never be

A carved wooden chair, ornate but austere, with a single thin cushion, strictly practical rather than for comfort or relaxation, his papers on the table held in place

In the darkness, without visual clues to distract or fixate upon, only voices, there is no pretence, there is no hiding, there is only the shared experience of

It’s the end of the season and there’s a lot to squeeze in on the recap finale of Real Housewives with all of the drama and all of

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Doctor Jimmy Lyons is on a quest among the comfortable leather sofas of the Cinema Room of Brass Monkey, showing off his shapely shoulders and arms and flaunting

It doesn’t start with an earthquake or tidal waves, though those will follow, an asteroid heading for Earth, detected a year ago but its presence kept a closely