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Publishers Weekly 09/28/2015 Set in the autumn of 1876, Finch’s capable ninth Victorian mystery (after 2014’s The Laws of Murder) takes gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox from London to Sussex, to try to console his brother, whose wife has died after a sudden illness, but he’s soon distracted by a bizarre puzzle. Before a local insurance […]
Unforgiven
Kirkus Reviews 2015-10-06 The long-standing Fallen series continues with bad boy fallen angel Cam trying to win back his lost love from ancient Israel, entering into a deal with the devil to do it. In 1,000 B.C.E. Cam and Lilith fell in love, but Cam broke Lilith's heart. Now he learns something he has been […]
Tricky Twenty-two
Library Journal 06/01/2015 Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her friends, family, and lovers return for a 22nd adventure after Top Secret Twenty-One, which hit the top spot on the New York Times hardcover, ebook, and combined best sellers lists. Plot? Does it even matter?
The Mistletoe Inn
Library Journal 10/15/2015 In the second holiday love story of Evans's "Mistletoe Collection" (The Mistletoe Promise), Kim Rossi is recently divorced and working as a finance officer at a car dealership. When Kim hears about a romance-writing retreat at the Mistletoe Inn, she decides it may be time to pursue her dream of becoming an […]
After Alice
Publishers Weekly ★ 09/14/2015 Maguire (Wicked) turns his attention to Lewis Carroll’s Victorian fantasies, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, in this thoughtful and disconcertingly memorable novel. Ada Boyce, Alice’s best friend, also falls down a rabbit hole into a phantasmagorical realm where she too is tossed and bossed about by strange […]
Host
Publishers Weekly 08/10/2015 Bestseller Cook’s engrossing medical thriller revisits themes from 1977’s Coma. Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at the Mason-Dixon University Medical Center in Charleston, S.C., has her life upended when her lawyer boyfriend, Carl Vandermeer, suffers severe brain damage during a routine orthopedic procedure. Baffled by what went wrong, Lynn and a […]
The Theory of Death
Library Journal 05/15/2015 You'd think former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker could relax a little in small-town Greenbury, NY, where he heads the police department. But, no, a naked corpse has been discovered in the woods. Tracing the victim to nearby Kneed Loft College with the help of friend and former Greenbury colleague Tyler McAdams, Decker […]
Corrupted
Overview Bennie Rosato the founder of the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm hides her big heart beneath her tough-as-nails exterior and she doesn't like to fail. Now, a case from her past shows her how differently things might have turned out. Thirteen years ago, Bennie Rosato took on Jason Lefkavick, a twelve-year-old boy who was […]
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Publishers Weekly 09/07/2015 Pulitzer-winner Schiff (Cleopatra: A Life) applies her descriptive prowess and flair for the dramatic to the Salem witch trials. The book is packed with details and delivered with a punch, but it suffers from a dearth of nuance. Schiff’s passionate use of the active tense places the reader right in the midst […]
The Japanese Lover
Publishers Weekly ★ 08/10/2015 Allende’s (The House of Spirits) magical and sweeping tale focuses on two survivors of separation and loss: the elderly, renowned designer Alma Belasco, whose silk-screened creations fuel the family foundation, and her young secretary, mysterious Irina Bazili, who works at the progressive old people’s home, Lark House, where Alma lives. Their […]