The Night Strangers : a Nove

The Washington Post – Keith Donohue Bohjalian has been a reliable bestseller of literary and historical fiction, earning praise from critics and a large audience, but The Night Strangers represents a more sinister turn. It boasts all the trappings of a classic Gothic horror story…Bohjalian turns the screw right up to the unexpected ending and […]

Secrets of Eden : a Novel

Publishers Weekly: Bohjalian (Law of Similars) has built a reputation on his rich characters and immersing readers in diverse subjects?homeopathy, animal rights activism, midwifery?and his latest surely won?t disappoint. The morning after her baptism into the Rev. Stephen Drew?s Vermont Baptist church, Alice Hayward and her abusive husband are found dead in their home, an […]

The Double Bind

From Publishers Weekly Readers will be startled to learn early on that the heroine of this engrossing puzzle, 26-year-old Laurel Estabrook, was born in West Egg. Wait a minute, wasn't West Egg where Jay Gatsby lived? Laurel works in a Burlington, Vt., homeless shelter and is trying to overcome mental and physical scars incurred from […]