A Dangerous Inheritance : a Novel of Tudor Rivals and the Secret of the Tower
“A compelling, even irresistible, read.â€â€”Booklist (starred review)
The Blackhouse
"Order, read, and pass it on! Well known for novels and television dramas, Scottish author May (Backlight Blue; Chinese Whispers) has written a mesmerizing new trilogy opener. May brings the story to a breathtaking conclusion with an astonishing twist at the end. Compare to Simon Beckett's Written in Bone for locale and Tana French for […]
Paradise City
Publishers Weekly Mayor’s solid 23rd Joe Gunther novel (after 2011’s Tag Man) focuses on a tri-cornered interstate case involving multiple thefts. One night on Boston’s exclusive Beacon Hill, three burglars break into the house of 89-year-old Wilhelmina “Billie†Hawthorn, who makes the fatal mistake of catching them in the act. Det. Jimmy McAuliffe gets the […]
The Raven Boys
Kirkus Reviews An ancient Welsh king may be buried in the Virginia countryside; three privileged boys hope to disinter him. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Blue Sargent, daughter of a small-town psychic, has lived her whole life under a prophecy: If she kisses her true love, he will die. Not that she plans on kissing anyone. Blue isn't […]
Telegraph Avenue : a Novel
Library Journal If any novelist can pack the entire American zeitgeist into 500 pages, it's Chabon (The Yiddish Policeman's Union). Here, he deftly treads race, class, gender, and generation lines, showing how they continue to define us even as they're crossed. In 2004, in an enclave bordered by Berkeley and Oakland, Brokeland Records sells used […]
Winter of the World
The Washington Post Follett is an efficient, rather than elegant, stylist…[His] real gifts are those of a natural storyteller: swift, cinematic pacing, the ability to juggle multiple narratives coherently, and an eye for the telling detail. The result, as in Fall of Giants, is an honorable piece of popular entertainment and a consistently compelling portrait […]
The Three-day Affair
Overview Will, Jeffrey, and Nolan are lifelong friends. Each has gone their separate ways as adults, living their own lives while forging their own careers. They have no reason to believe anything extraordinary will befall them. Until one shocking moment changes everything. Will is a part-time drummer who spends the rest of his time in […]
A Fistful of Collars : a Chet and Bernie Mystery
Library Journal Quinn makes this reviewer laugh. Maybe it's because I am a dog lover, or maybe it's because he writes from the dog's point of view. Maybe it's because he is just plain funny. In their latest adventure (after The Dog Who Knew Too Much), PIs Chet (a border collie) and Bernie (his human […]
Severe Clear : a Stone Barrington Novel
Library Journal Woods's 50th novel—and protagonist Stone Barrington's 24th, if I am counting correctly—takes Barrington to Bel-Air, where a grand hotel called the Arrington is opening on the grounds of the mansion belonging to his late wife. Alas, terrorists threaten to upend the glittering gala.
The Casual Vacancy
Overview When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with […]