Dance Hall of the Dead
A Fierce Radiance
The New York Times – Maggie Scarf: Belfer's first novel, City of Light, delineated the social and political tensions of Buffalo, N.Y., at the beginning of the age of electricity. A Fierce Radiance is similarly ambitious, combining medical and military history with commercial rivalry, espionage and thwarted love. Belfer clearly knows her scientific material. She […]
Island Beneath the Sea : a Novel
Library Journal: Zariet?, known as T?t?, is born a slave in Haiti, then called Saint-Domingue, in 1700. She is bought by Toulouse Valmorain, a young Frenchman whose ideals quickly disappear in the brutality of life on a sugar plantation. T?t? tenderly cares for Valmorain's son and, since she is her master's property, bears two of […]
This Body of Death : a Nove
Kirkus Reviews Tragedy blights lives in a dozen different ways. Grieving widower Thomas Lynley (Careless in Red, 2008, etc.) returns to New Scotland Yard to assist temporary Acting Superintendent Isabelle Ardery, who is acerbic, volatile and an alcoholic in denial. This potent cocktail hardly helps her relationship with her ex, her sons and Lynley's old […]
The Last Wilderness
Synopsis Is this journey's end . . .or just the beginning? Toklo, Kallik, Lusa, and Ujurak have finally reached the Last Great Wilderness, the legendary bear paradise they've been searching for. But while his companions think they've come to the end of their long journey, Ujurak feels a deep unrest. Is this truly where they're […]
The Fourth Apprentice
After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come. . . .
Slayride
Smoke-screen
Money to Burn : a Novel of Suspense
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Grippando?s overwrought financial thriller gives its hero, Michael Cantella, almost as rude an awakening as Kafka?s Gregor Samsa. Scandals involving subprime lending, short selling, and Ponzi schemes provide a timely backdrop. On the eve of his 35th birthday, Cantella goes from being a star performer at a premier Wall Street investment firm […]
Shadow Tag
Library Journal: Irene America is a smart, beautiful Minneapolis Ojibwe. Too distracted to finish her doctoral degree, she musters the emotional resources needed to keep two journals. The "Red Diary" is bait, filled with adulterous scenes that Irene uses to push volatile artist husband Gil close enough to the brink that he'll leave her. She […]