The Keepsake : a Novel
Publishers Weekly: Bestseller Gerritsen's at times lackluster series heroines prove they can shine in her solid seventh thriller to feature Det. Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles (after The Mephisto Club). When medical examiner Isles studies an X-ray scan of Madame X, which everyone assumes is a newly discovered Egyptian mummy, at Boston's Crispin Museum, […]
Compulsion : an Alex Delaware Novel
Publishers Weekly: Bestseller Kellerman serves up all the elements his fans have come to love in the 22nd entry in his Alex Delaware series (Obsession, etc.), including an intriguing plot, likable regular characters supported by an interesting secondary cast, diabolical villains, witty dialogue and a sense of humanity and justice. Alex and his LAPD detective […]
The Venetian Betrayal
Jeff Ayers – Library Journal: Bookseller/former intelligence officer Cotton Malone can't stay out of trouble in his third adventure (after The Alexandria Linkand The Templar Legacy) that blends contemporary thrills with the historical past. Cotton receives a summons to a museum to meet the mysterious woman he reluctantly worked with in The Alexandria Link. Arriving […]
Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley
Loving Frank
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. In 1904, architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a house for Edwin and Mamah Borthwick Cheney, respectable members of Oak Park, IL, society. Five years later, after a clandestine affair, Frank and Mamah scandalized that society by leaving their families to live together in Europe. Stunned by the furor, Mamah wanted […]
Sleepers
The Bone Garden
Publisher Weekly Review At the start of this disappointing stand-alone thriller from bestseller Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club), 38-year-old divorc?e Julia Hamill discovers a skeleton buried in the garden of the Boston house she's just moved into; the ring found with the remains was in fashion in the 1830s, the fractured bones suggest murder. Flashback to […]