Torment : a Fallen novel
Publishers Weekly In Kate’s sequel to Fallen, fallen angel Daniel has negotiated an 18-day truce with demonic Cam, during which time they will keep his one true love, 17-year-old Luce, safe from the Outcasts, “spineless, waffling angels, shunned by both Heaven and Hell,” who are after her. Daniel sends Luce to Shoreline, a Northern California […]
Family Ties : a Novel
Kirkus Reviews An aunt steps up to mother her orphaned nieces and nephew, in Steel's predictable latest (A Good Woman, 2008, etc.). Annie, 26, is on the verge of embarking on an exciting career, and marrying well, when her sister Jane and her husband are killed in a plane crash. With some trepidation, Annie becomes […]
Big Girl : a Novel
Publishers Weekly Household name Steel (Going Home) falls short of her best in her latest. Victoria Dawson has always felt like an outcast. When her little sister Grace is born, father Jim tells Victoria she was the ?tester cake,? and they finally got it right with the beautiful Gracie. Victoria grows up in her sister?s […]
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag : a Flavia De Luce Mystery
Library Journal: When our heroine, conducting a mock funeral for herself in the village churchyard, encounters a weeping red-headed woman, the 11-year-old's precocious wit and sympathy immediately charm the tearful Nialla: "I like you, Flavia de Luce." The many readers who made Bradley's The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie a best seller will […]
The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie
Michele Leber – Library Journal An 11-year-old solving a dastardly murder in the English countryside in 1950 wouldn't seem to be everyone's cup of tea. But Flavia Sabina de Luce is no ordinary child: she's already an accomplished chemist, smart enough to escape being imprisoned by her older sisters and to exact revenge, forthright and […]
Southern Lights : a Novel
Synopsis: Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel?at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment.
Undone
Library Journal: In her latest thriller, New York Times best-selling author Slaughter brings together protagonists from her two series. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Will Trent and Faith Mitchell (introduced in Fractured) collide with pediatrician and part-time coroner Sara Linton (last seen in Faithless) when a torture victim appears in Linton's emergency room. Probing into […]