The Red Thread : a Novel
The Washington Post – Reeve Lindbergh: This is a subtle and unusual adoption story, many-layered, exquisitely told.
Theodore Boone : Kid Lawyer
The New York Times: Not since Nancy Drew has a nosy, crime-obsessed kid been so hard to resist.
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner : an Eclipse Novella
Synopsis Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as […]
So Cold the River
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: ?a super?natural mystery that intensifies the suspense by thickening the atmosphere. So Cold the River?is a superior specimen, with its eerie tale of a lovely valley in Indiana where at one time an elixir known as Pluto Water bubbled up from the underground springs?Koryta sets a beautiful scene?
The House On Oyster Creek
Library Journal An only child with physical limitations, Henry Tradescome has always disliked his family summer home in Wellfleet, MA. But Henry's wife, Charlotte, is thrilled to raise their four-year-old daughter in the house he's just inherited. Founder/editor of an alternative New York newspaper, Henry is 20 years Charlotte's senior. She's never felt she was […]
The Ice Princess
Library Journal Erica Falck, a local-girl-makes-good writer from the tiny resort town of Fjallbacka, Sweden, stumbles onto a crime scene involving a close childhood friend. Erica is struggling to meet her publisher's deadline on a biography she no longer finds stimulating when her writer's instinct is piqued by her friend's mysterious death. At various points […]
A Twisted Faith : a Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church
Publishers Weekly Crime novelist Olsen (Heart of Ice) paints a disturbing portrait of a community undone by its appealing young pastor. On Washington State's Bainbridge Island, across Puget Sound from Seattle, the fundamentalist Christ Community Church employed youth pastor Nick Hacheney, a charismatic if not attractive young man who'd grown up in the area. Hacheney […]
War
The Washington Post – Philip Caputo: With his narrative gifts and vivid prose?as free, thank God, of literary posturing as it is of war-correspondent chest-thumping?Junger masterfully chronicles the platoon's 15-month tour of duty. But what elevates War out of its particular time and place are the author's meditations on the minds and emotions of the […]
"L" Is For Lawless
The Rule of Nine : a Paul Madriani Novel
Synopsis: The Old Weatherman dreams of a plan that could be his swan song, an attack to drive a stake through the heart of the right-wing establishment and bury it for good. Now he's found the money, the ideal weapon, and the professional who knows how to use it. And he has set his sights […]