White Fire
Publishers Weekly ★ 09/02/2013 Sherlock Holmes fans will relish Preston and Child’s 13th novel featuring eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after 2012’s Two Graves), one of their best in this popular series. In the prologue, set in 1889 at a London restaurant, Oscar Wilde not only advises Conan Doyle on how to improve the character […]
The Longest Ride
Overview In the tradition of his beloved first novel, The Notebook, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with the remarkable story of two couples whose lives intersect in profound and surprising ways. Ira Levinson is in trouble. Ninety-one years old and stranded and injured after a car crash, he struggles to retain […]
The October List
Publishers Weekly ★ 08/12/2013 Thriller Award–winner Deaver (Edge) delivers a clever, demanding stand-alone that moves backward in time over the span of a three-day weekend, from Sunday evening to early Friday morning. In the first chapter, office manager Gabriela McKenzie, whose six-year-old daughter, Sarah, has been kidnapped, waits in her Manhattan apartment for news from […]
Identical
Kirkus Reviews Much-practiced legal proceduralist Turow (Innocent, 2010, etc.) steps onto Joseph Campbell turf in his latest mystery. Turf is everything in the world Zeus Kronon–a charged name, that–has carved out for himself in Kindle County, turf that, of course, figures in Turow's oeuvre as Yoknapatawpha County figures in Faulkner's. Rolling in drachmas, he has […]
Deadline
Kirkus Reviews 2013-09-01 A returning war correspondent covering a sensational murder case ends up with more than he bargained for. Dawson Scott has returned from Afghanistan and his job in the trenches for a national consumer news magazine, but he's greeted with a not-so-welcome surprise: His mortal enemy has become his boss. Ready to walk […]
The Astronaut Wives Club
The Washington Post – Curtis Sittenfeld …[a] breezy and entertaining book, which—like the women themselves—takes pleasure in both playing up and defying the stereotypes of the time…Koppel is chronicling a cultural moment more than any particular person, and in this she excels. The details are superb, from the ham loaves the women cooked to the […]
The Kill Room
"Deaver, who can't resist any opportunity for ingenuity… keeps mixing fastballs, curveballs and change-ups." (Kirkus Reviews)
The Hit
Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims. No one else can match Robie's talents as a hitman…no one, except Jessica Reel. A fellow […]
The Fifth Assassin
Kirkus Reviews Beecher White returns as hero in Meltzer's (The Inner Circle, 2011, etc.) second installment of his conspiracy thriller surrounding the Culper Ring and a corrupt president. Beecher is an archivist at the National Archives. He's also the newest member of that obscure brotherhood, the Culper Ring. It's linked through history to George Washington–"the […]
Two Graves
Library Journal In this conclusion to the authors' Helen trilogy (Fever Dream; Cold Vengeance), Special Agent Pendergast finally discovers what happened to his wife, Helen, who was supposedly mauled by a lion while game hunting in Africa 15 years ago but who may have been kidnapped and forced to collaborate in her own death. Having […]