Sworn to Silence
Jane Jorgenson – Library Journal: This debut mystery introduces Police Chief Kate Burkholder of Painters Mill, OH. Kate grew up in that Amish community but abandoned her heritage after a traumatic event in her teen years. Now she's back, using her Amish background to navigate between the two factions in the community. Her hard-won equanimity […]
The Innocent Spy
Jo Ann Vicarel – Library Journal As the Nazi bombing of London begins in 1940, Detective Inspector Stratton is investigating the death of a silent screen star when he meets undercover agent Diana Calthrop, a new addition to the staff of Colonel Forbes-James, an important member of MI5. Soon their probes lead to Fascist sympathizers […]
Living Dead In Dallas
KLIATT: This is one terrific read. Harris has created a charming and winning character in Sookie Stackhouse?cocktail waitress, telepath, and girlfriend of a vampire. Stackhouse lives in a different world, one where vampires, werewolves, and assorted other mythical beings actually exist. She is beholden to the local Louisiana nest of vampires and is sent by […]
Club Dead
Sherri F. Ginsberg – KLIATT: This is the third installment in the series; however it can be read by itself. Sookie Stackhouse is a strong, independent female who happens to have the gift of being telepathic. She falls in love with a vampire specifically because she cannot read his mind. Her lover, Bill, is kidnapped […]
Dead to the World
Publishers Weekly Fans of Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake looking for a lighter version of the vampire huntress should cotton to Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic Louisiana gal who really wants to be normal, but suffers from a huge self-confidence problem, a case of permanent bad luck, difficult relatives and a penchant for attracting unsavory characters of […]
Woodsburner : a Novel
Patrick Sullivan – Library Journal: This is a powerfully rendered debut about an infamous moment in American literary history: Henry David Thoreau accidentally starting a massive fire that burned 300 acres of woods near Concord, MA, in 1844. Significantly, this happened just a year before Thoreau removed himself from society, built his cabin, and began […]
The Everafter War
Synopsis: Picking up after the dramatic cliffhanger that ended Book Six, Sabrina and Daphne?s prayers are finally answered when their parents awake from their sleeping spell. But their happy reunion is short-lived, as they are caught in the middle of a war between the Scarlet Hand and Prince Charming?s Everafter army. As the family works […]
In the Shadow of Gotham
Kirkus Reviews: A detective and several criminologists track a madman from the Palisades to the Bowery in a debut set in 1905. After the tragic loss of his fiancee, Detective Simon Ziele heads north from New York City for the village calm of Dobson. That calm is suddenly shattered by a vicious murder in one […]
The Baker Street Letters
Kirkus Reviews: A transatlantic mystery draws two brothers into a web of murder. When attorney Reggie Heath rents office space on Baker Street in 1997, he begins receiving letters from various places addressed to Sherlock Holmes and appealing, naturally, for his detective help. Reggie considers the letters an amusing nuisance. But his mentally fragile younger […]
Finger Lickin' Fifteen
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: Evanovich writes with flair in an absurdist vein that her imitators can only envy.