Still Missing
Library Journal: On a sunny August afternoon, realtor Annie O'Sullivan is just about to end an open house showing when a friendly, nicely dressed man appears. What seems to be a lucky break is really just the beginning of Annie's yearlong ordeal. During sessions with her psychologist, Annie takes the reader back to her abduction […]
Kings of the Earth : a Novel
The Washington Post – Robert Goolrick: This is the kind of fiction we should be reading. Kings of the Earth is eloquent and moving, written with precision and clarity to stave off loss?the loss of history, of art, of humanity. True feeling seems to be out of fashion in contemporary fiction, and fiction is the […]
The Long Song
The New York Times – Fernanda Eberstadt: Readers of The Long Song will find little here of the maddened grief of Toni Morrison's Beloved or the deep melancholy of Edward P. Jones's Known World. Levy's novelistic defense against evil and injustice is her humane sense of comedy. In The Long Song, she has painted a […]
My Name Is Mary Sutter
Library Journal: Despite her skill as a midwife, Mary Sutter cannot overcome the obstacle that bars her from further medical training: her gender. The Civil War changes everything. After her brother enlists in the Union Army, Mary follows him from Albany to Washington, DC, to volunteer as a nurse. She ends up at the ramshackle […]
Truth
Library Journal: As head of homicide in Melbourne, Australia, Inspector Stephen Villani devotes himself to serving justice. Yet even as he pursues cases with single-minded intensity, he can't ignore a foreboding that the job is destroying him. Faced with a brutal triple homicide and an unidentified victim found in a penthouse apartment, Villani uncovers a […]
A Curtain Falls
Library Journal It's boom times in 1906 New York City, and the theater world is thriving. When a chorus girl is found dead on a Broadway stage, Capt. Declan Mulvaney asks his former partner Simon Ziele to help out. With the help of criminologist Alistair Sinclair and his daughter-in-law, Ziele must use all of his […]
Buy Back
Library Journal: In a comic caper that could have stepped out of an Elmore Leonard or Lawrence Block novel, the theft of three paintings from a Brooklyn museum goes awry when the thieves are in turn robbed by another crew of criminals. Insurance investigator Tommy Davin, who had arranged the theft to pay off some […]
The Passage : a Novel
Library Journal A human-created virus has infected humankind, mutating most into superstrong, near-immortal vampiric creatures. The "virals"?also called "jumpers" and "dracs" (after Dracula, of course)?can leap 20 feet through the air at a bound and split a human (or a horse, or a cow) in half with their bare hands. A small band of men […]
Whiplash
Publishers Weekly: In Coulter?s fab 14th FBI paranormal romantic thriller (after KnockOut), FBI special agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, look into the possible haunting of a U.S. senator by his dead wife as well as a more earthly crime: Germany?s Schiffer Hartwin Pharmaceutical, which has its U.S. headquarters in Connecticut, might be […]
The Lion : a Novel
Publishers Weekly: Asad Khalil (aka "The Lion"), the ruthless Libyan terrorist who menaced ex-NYPD cop John Corey in The Lion's Game (2000), returns to the U.S. 18 months after 9/11, bent on finishing old business in DeMille's fast-paced fifth John Corey thriller (after Wild Fire). In Los Angeles, Khalil dispatches the last of the eight […]