The Treasure of Dead Man's Lane and Other Case Files
School Library Journal Gr 4–6—With three new cases, Saxby proves to be the go-to kid for solving mysteries. The boy relies heavily on the power of observation and drawing logical conclusions to find a missing comic worth $100,000 and a treasure in an old house that's about to be demolished and discover who has broken […]
The Pirate's Blood and Other Case Files
In this third volume of the Saxby Smart: Private Detective series, Saxby solves three more daunting cases: The Pirate's Blood, The Mystery of Mary Rogers, and The Lunchbox of Notre Dame. With the help of his Thinking Chair (located in his headquarters/parents' tool shed), his sharp mind, and his two best friends, Saxby proves once […]
The Triple Agent : the Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA
The Washington Post – Steve Hendricks Spy books these days are apt to start with an episode that, chronologically speaking, belongs in the middle of the book but that is so enthralling, the reader can't help but read on to see how it all ends…Joby Warrick makes a pluckier start in The Triple Agent. He […]
To the End of the Land
Kirkus Reviews: A provocative antiwar novel by one of Israel's best-known writers (See Under: Love, 1989, etc.). If Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a post-apocalyptic journey across a ruined landscape, Grossman's latest describes a walkabout across forbidding country that is ever in danger of being consumed by war. Ora and Avram meet in a hospital […]
Cold Vengeance
Library Journal: Pendergast is seriously wounded on a trip with brother-in-law Judson Esterhazy, who tells Pendergast that his wife, Helen, is still alive and then abandons him. Now Pendergast has a reason to live—he starts hunting for Helen and thereby upsets a shady international organization no end. This is the second in a trilogy about […]
Eyes Wide Open
Kirkus Reviews: Inspired by the death of the author's nephew,this is a grim psychological thriller sure to shock readers. Nothing is evil if it's done out of love. Such is the mantra of a convicted murderer's cult followers. A troubled teenager falls from a cliff, an apparent suicide. But why would the boy remove one […]
The Ideal Man
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Garwood (Shadow Music) turns out another high-quality romantic thriller. St. Louis trauma surgeon Ellie Sullivan walks in on a failed gun-dealer bust, saves an FBI agent, and quickly becomes more than friendly with another agent, Max Daniels. As Ellie and Max develop their relationship, the dealers send an assassin after Ellie; the […]
Acceptable Loss : a William Monk Novel
“Give her a good murder and a shameful social evil,†The New York Times Book Review once declared, “and Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens’s eyes pop.†And Perry’s new William and Hester Monk story, a mesmerizing masterpiece of innocence and evil on London’s docks, outshines all her previous novels […]
Turn of Mind
The New York Times – Zoe Slutzky: This is a portrait of an unstable mind, an expansive, expertly wrought imagining of memory's failures and potential…Alzheimer's is bleak territory, and to saddle Jennifer with suspected murder seems cruel and unusual punishment. But in LaPlante's vivid prose, her waning mind proves a prism instead of a prison, […]
The Last Werewolf
The New York Times – Justin Cronin The challenge for any writer working within an established genre, especially a genre with a reputation for high camp, is to bring something new to the table while adhering to tradition. On both points, Duncan…scores high marks…Marlowe…deliver[s] his lengthy confession…with the pounding energy of water shot from a […]