The Retribution
Publishers Weekly The return of serial killer Jacko Vance drives McDermid’s superb seventh novel featuring Dr. Tony Hill and Det. Chief Insp. Carol Jordan of the Bradfield police (after 2010’s Fever of the Bone). Vance, the charming TV talk show host responsible for murdering 17 teenage girls in 1997’s The Wire in the Blood, manages […]
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, […]
Witches On the Road Tonight
Library Journal This new novel by Holman (Mammoth Cheese) centers on Eddie Alley, raised by his mother in the mountains of rural Virginia during the Depression while his father works away from home. Cora isn't like other mothers—there are rumors that she's a witch. Their isolated life is disrupted when a writer and a photographer […]
Matterhorn : a Novel of the Vietnam War
The New York Times Book Review – Sebastian Junger:Chapter after chapter, battle after battle, Marlantes pushes you through what may be one of the most profound and devastating novels ever to come out of Vietnam?or any war. It's not a book so much as a deployment, and you will not return unaltered?Matterhorn is a raw, […]
The Last Crossing
In the Fall
Lost Nation
After Youve Gone
Publishers Weekly: A widower, suddenly bereft, finds an unexpected future when he goes to Amsterdam looking for his past in Lent's intricate and rewarding fourth novel. Henry Dorn is an upright college professor whose relatively tranquil existence is upended when his wife and son are killed in a car accident in the 1920s. As the […]