By Gaslight
Publishers Weekly š 07/18/2016 Pricefs elegantly written, vividly evoked second novel (after Into That Darkness) marries historical suspense with literary sophistication. In 1885 London, a womanfs dismembered body is identified as that of Charlotte Reckitt, a longtime grifter for whom two very different men are searching. William Pinkerton, the 39-year-old son of American detective-agency-founder Allan […]
Among the Wicked
06/13/2016 In bestseller Castillo's exciting eighth Kate Burkholder mystery (after 2015's After the Storm), Sheriff Dan Suggs from Franklin City, N.Y., and Frank Betancourt, a senior investigator with the BCI division of the New York State Police, ask Kate, the Painters Mill, Ohio, police chief, who escaped her Amish upbringing at 18, to go undercover […]
The Obsidian Chamber
Kirkus Reviews 2016-08-22 Aloysius Pendergast, an enormously wealthy FBI special agent with a go-it-alone, 007–like brief, is presumed dead at sea after helping a Massachusetts friend. Gloom prevails at his fabulous mansion on New York City’s Riverside Drive.Preston and Child (Crimson Shore, 2015, etc.) find Pendergast’s factotum extraordinaire, Proctor, keeping a stiff upper lip. Pendergast’s […]
Sex, Lies & Serious Money
Publishers Weekly 10/03/2016 Hitting the lottery jackpot can be a lot of fun, as shown in bestseller Woods’s satisfying 39th Stone Barrington novel (after Dishonorable Intentions). Laurence Hayward, an Eton schoolmaster with American roots who has won $612 million playing Powerball, turns to New York lawyer Stone for guidance on spending his fortune on such […]
Hag-Seed
Publishers Weekly š 08/22/2016 In The Tempest, Prospero is not just exiled king, magician, and father, hefs an impresario staging multiple shows: the storm that strands his enemies on the island; his pretended disdain for Ferdinand, whom he intends for his daughter, Miranda; the play within the play; and, some critics argue, the play itself. […]
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Smoke and Mirrors
Publishers Weekly 05/30/2016 Set in Brighton, England, in 1951, Griffith’s captivating sequel to 2015’s Zig Zag Girl finds Det. Insp. Edgar Stephens embroiled in a grim holiday hunt for the murderer of two children. Like an unnerving scene from a fairy tale, a trail of candy in the snow leads to the bodies of Annie […]
The Whistler
Publishers Weekly 09/12/2016 Lawyer Lacy Stolz, the heroine of this tense legal thriller from bestseller Grisham (Rogue Lawyer), investigates complaints against judges for the Florida Board on Judicial Misconduct. In her nine years on the job, there has never been any danger in her assignments; the justices are often more incompetent than corrupt. Everything changes […]
Small Great Things
The New York Times Book Review – Roxane Gay Small Great Things is, in most ways, a classic Jodi Picoult novel—tackling contemporary social issues, creating interesting, relatable characters and presenting a gripping courtroom drama…Picoult knows how to tell an interesting story, and the novel moves briskly. This is a writer who understands her characters inside […]
Order to Kill
Publishers Weekly š 08/29/2016 The rousing 15th entry in the late Vince Flynnfs bestselling series, the first by Mills (who completed 2015fs The Survivor), pits CIA officer Mitch Rapp against Grisha Azarov, Russian president Maxim Krupinfs personal assassin, and for once Mitch isnft the odds-on favorite. Krupin has an ingenious plan involving the theft of […]