Every Fifteen Minutes
Publishers Weekly ★ 02/02/2015 Bestseller Scottoline (Keep Quiet) casts an unflinching eye on the damaged world of sociopaths in this exciting page-turner. The personal life of Dr. Eric Parrish, chief of the psychiatric unit at Havemeyer General Hospital in Philadelphia's suburbs, is even more of a challenge than his job. His wife, Caitlin, has filed […]
Last One Home
Library Journal Review In the 12 years since she left her childhood home in Spokane at age 18, Cassie has lost touch with her sisters Karen (older) and Nichole (younger) and her now-deceased parents-she didn't leave on the best of terms. She paid dearly for this youthful mistake, because the man she ran away with […]
Shame and the Captives
Library Journal Review As in Schindler's List, Keneally draws on actual events and uses a broad backdrop-here, World War II in the Pacific-for his tale of a POW camp located in a remote corner of Australia. Tensions arise when the camp's commander, English colonel Ewan Abercare, disagrees with Australian major Bernard Suttor, in charge of […]
Clementine and the Family Meeting
School Library Journal Review Gr 2-4-Clementine's fifth adventure for early chapter-book readers addresses a topic many children can relate to. The third-grader's parents call a family meeting to announce that a new baby is on the way. Clementine's reaction to the news is realistic-she says "No thanks!" She argues that four is the perfect number […]
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
School Library Journal Review Gr 4-8-The childhood of the brilliant and kindhearted leader of The Mysterious Benedict Society is fleshed out in this prequel to the popular series. Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict is shuffled to yet another orphanage where he's sure to be teased for his intellect, disruptive nightmares, and struggle with narcolepsy. Sure enough, the […]
The Fifth Gospel
Library Journal Review Starred Review. Ten years ago Caldwell's The Rule of Four, coauthored with Dustin Thomason, dominated the best sellers lists. With his second novel, Caldwell claims a legitimate position among the notables of this artifact-adventure genre. Set within the walls of the Vatican (circa 2004), this thriller treats us to a captivating and […]
Hot Pursuit
Publisher Weekly Review At the start of Edgar-winner Woods's glossy 33rd Stone Barrington novel (after Insatiable Appetites), the bourbon-sipping lawyer and aviator takes possession of a brand-new private jet on a chilly winter's day at an airfield in Wichita, Kans. The Citation M2 comes complete with an attractive female copilot, Pat Frank, with whom widower […]
A Slant of Light
Library Journal Review Starred Review. After four years of bloodshed, Civil War veteran Malcolm Hopeton returns home to upstate New York where he discovers that his farm has been abandoned and looted. His wife has run off with the hired man, but when they return to confront him, in minutes they're dead. From then on, […]
Blood On Snow
Library Journal Review Olav and his employer, a major crime boss, agree that Olav is good for one thing only-serving as a hit man who expertly "fixes" up messes. However, when Olav is commissioned to kill his boss's wife, things start to go south for him. Olav knows if he takes her out, he is […]
The Harder They Come
Library Journal Review Starred Review. An elderly California couple's vacation cruise is turned upside down when bandits attack their party at a Central American nature preserve. Former high school principal and Vietnam vet Sten Stensen reacts with unexpected fury when an armed thief approaches him, strangling him to death. While viewed as a hero back […]