The Snow Child : a Novel
Library Journal Here's a modern retelling of the Russian fairy tale about a girl, made from snow by a childless couple, who comes to life. Or perhaps not modern—the setting is 1920s Alaska—but that only proves the timelessness of the tale and of this lovely book. Unable to start a family, middle-aged Jack and Mabel […]
The Drop : a Novel
From The Critics Connelly’s lean, just-the-facts style makes for crisp dialogue and a brisk, info-driven plot…A haunted quality has always been one of the chief attractions of Connelly's series and of Bosch's character, and this latest entry hardly fails to deliver. —The Washington Post
Private : #1 Suspect
Overview Unsolvable cases Since former Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most effective investigation firm–sought out by the famous and the powerful to discreetly handle their most intimate problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world–and they always uncover the truth. Impossible murders […]
Kill Alex Cross
It's Patterson at the top of his game…Kill Alex Cross [is told] with a realism that feels like an insider's view of a family tragedy played out on a national stage…Even in the context of a thriller, Patterson is presenting three different families—Cross's, the terrorists' and President Coyle's—each with its own darkly parallel definitions of […]
Long Shot For Paul
The Christmas Wedding
Washington Post: "Patterson has hit a home run."
The Art of Fielding : a Novel
The New York Times Book Review – Gregory Cowles: Chad Harbach makes the case for baseball, thrillingly, in his slow, precious and altogether excellent first novel…If it seems a stretch for a baseball novel to hold truth and beauty and the entire human condition in its mitt, well, The Art of Fielding isn't really a […]
Kill Me If You Can : a Novel
Library Journal During an attack on New York's Grand Central Station, hard-up art student Matthew Bannon finds a bag containing $13 million worth of diamonds and takes it. (What's wrong, he hasn't read any thrillers about what happens to the guy who makes off with loot that isn't his?) Soon he's being trailed by the […]
The Ridge
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: …a freshly imagined and elegantly constructed variation on the dead-of-night ghost story…readers are swept along by Koryta's narrative voice, which is surprisingly soft and low and poetically insinuating, considering the horrors he's relating.
Silver Girl
Publishers Weekly Meredith and Connie's lifelong friendship broke apart three years ago, but their grief brings them back together in Hilderbrand's absorbing latest (after The Island). Connie is profoundly lonely following her husband's death and the estrangement from her daughter. Meanwhile, Meredith's husband's investment firm has been revealed as a Ponzi scheme, and the ensuing […]