Dead Watch
Publisher Weekly Review: When Lincoln Bowe, a controversial Republican ex-senator, disappears at the start of this fast-paced thriller from bestseller Sandford (Broken Prey), the White House puts Jacob Winter, a veteran political operative with "an uncanny ability to navigate the world of bureaucracy," on the case. Bowe vanished shortly after making a fiery speech denouncing […]
Dark Harbor
Publisher Weekly Review: Bestseller Woods's tepid 12th Stone Barrington novel finds the New York lawyer taking a much-needed working vacation after the deadly trials and tribulations of the action-packed Two-Dollar Bill (2005). Stone has inherited a house on the island of Dark Harbor, Maine, from his first cousin Dick after Dick and his family have […]
Killer View
Boston Sunday Globe: A terrific villain, an appealing protagonist, and breakneck pacing. . . . Ridley Pearson writes thrillers, the kind that try to yank you to the edge of your seat and keep you there.
Second Sight
Publisher Weekly Review: Writing as Amanda Quick (Lie by Moonlight, etc.), Jayne Ann Krentz offers another spirited Victorian romance, light on Victorian, heavy on romance. Photographer Venetia Milton supports her brother, sister and maiden aunt while keeping secrets: her late father's bigamy, her paranormal gift for seeing people's auras ("like looking at a negative image […]
The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell
Donated to the library by Loretta Robinson. James Qwilleran and his famous felines Koko and Yum Yum are back for another mystery-solving stint in the bestselling Cat Who . . . series. While the town of Pickax is swept up in its sesquicentennial celebrations, a hurricane brews, and members of a family fall deathly ill. […]
Sea Change
"When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be a treacherous and emotionally charged investigation. Florence Horvath was an attractive, recently divorced heiress from Florida; […]
Memory In Death
Publisher Weekly Review: After clashing with clones and killers in last year's Origin in Death, New York City police lieutenant Eve Dallas ("Her eyes were the color of good, aged whiskey and were long like the rest of her. And like the rest of her, they were all cop") settles back into a more conventional […]
Iron Orchid
The Divide
Library Journal Review: The latest offering from the mega-bestselling author of The Horse Whisperer involves a fractured family coming to terms with the dissolution of a marriage, and a death. When a young woman is found embedded in the ice of a Montana mountain creek, the police quickly discover that she is Abbie Cooper, long […]
The Hostage
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Is Griffin our Homer or Tacitus? Those military experts wrote about real soldiers?and what the world needs now is a real-life Charley Castillo, Griffin's smart and efficient Department of Homeland Security agent, who works directly for the president on cases calling for more than routine skills. Introduced in By Order […]