A Drop of the Hard Stuff : a Matthew Scudder Novel
The Washington Post – Maureen Corrigan Sometimes, you open up a book, and you just know: You're in the hands of a master. Different things can signal that a golden read is about to begin: the voice…the atmosphere…the setting…In the case of Lawrence Block's latest Matthew Scudder novel, the tip-off is a brazenly simple plot […]
The Story of Beautiful Girl
The Washington Post – Suki Casanave The real mystery of this book lies not so much in the plot twists…but…inside the heads of its characters: How does someone like Homan or Lynnie, living with mental disability, experience and think about life? Simon addresses that question with compassion and heart, informed by her experience with her […]
Folly Beach
Publishers Weekly Frank's latest novel displays a rare talent that fans will welcome. Cate's philandering husband has died, leaving her nothing, and the entire contents of her sizable home have been repossessed. She returns to her relatives in Charleston hoping to get a grip on what has happened and on what comes next. Cate's new […]
The Ridge
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: …a freshly imagined and elegantly constructed variation on the dead-of-night ghost story…readers are swept along by Koryta's narrative voice, which is surprisingly soft and low and poetically insinuating, considering the horrors he's relating.
Silver Girl
Publishers Weekly Meredith and Connie's lifelong friendship broke apart three years ago, but their grief brings them back together in Hilderbrand's absorbing latest (after The Island). Connie is profoundly lonely following her husband's death and the estrangement from her daughter. Meanwhile, Meredith's husband's investment firm has been revealed as a Ponzi scheme, and the ensuing […]
Pigeon English
Publishers Weekly Kelman's debut novel is a well-tuned if simplistic portrait of a kid's life in the housing projects of London. After 11-year-old Harri, whose family has immigrated from Ghana, sees a classmate lying dead on the sidewalk one night, Harri and his buddy, Dean Griffin, set out to solve the murder, looking for the […]
Blood of the Reich : a Novel
Library Journal Explorer Kurt Raeder has orders from Heinrich Himmler to find an elixir hidden deep in the Tibetan mountains that grants eternal life, and American zoologist Benjamin Hood has orders to stop him. Meanwhile, in contemporary Seattle, a young woman is saved from death by a journalist who claims that her family holds a […]
Original Sin : a Sally Sin Adventure
Publishers Weekly Retired spy Lucy Hamilton, currently a San Francisco stay-at-home mom, proves herself to be "a fabulous multitasker," capable of both playing cowboys with her three-year-old son and tangling with international terrorists, in McMullen's diverting debut. When Simon Still, her former boss at the United States Agency for Weapons of Mass Destruction, calls Lucy […]
Happy Birthday
Library Journal: Valerie Wyatt is the reigning queen of elegant entertaining (think Martha Stewart). Her daughter, April, is the work-addicted chef/owner of a downtown New York restaurant (think any number of hot young chefs, today's new superstars, and check out Laura Shockey's Four Kitchens for the real inside story). High achievers, but men in their […]
So Much Pretty : a Novel
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio In her fearless first novel…Cara Hoffman demolishes our illusions about country life by addressing the problems of poverty, domestic abuse, teenage violence and environmental damage that are threatening to destroy the small communities of rural America…For all the passion in this intense narrative, Hoffman writes with a restraint […]