Break No Bones

Publisher Weekly Review: The success of the Fox TV show Bones, based on bestseller Reichs's series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (Cross Bones, etc.), bodes well for this latest installment, in which Brennan once again stumbles on a modern-day mystery inadvertently. While supervising a dig of Native American burial grounds in Charleston, S.C., Brennan finds […]

Hitched : a Regan Reilly Mystery

Publisher Weekly Review: Nervous brides may want to wait until after the wedding to read bestseller Clark's winning ninth mystery to feature PI Regan Reilly (after 2005's Burned). With her wedding to Jack "no relation" Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, only a week away, Regan thinks she has everything under control. But […]

Turning Angel

Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. A string of unique bestsellers (24 Hours, etc.) is testament to Iles's ability to leap genres and geography. His latest, a gripping legal mystery set in Natchez, Miss., proves he doesn't have to stray far from home to explore the darkest recesses of the human heart. Penn Cage?lawyer, author and […]

Death Dance

Publisher Weekly Review: Reunited with fellow Manhattan crime scene investigators Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, brazen, outspoken Alexandra Cooper, assistant DA for the sex crimes prosecution unit, tackles the case of a murdered dancer with the Royal Ballet. While it was no secret that "world-renowned" Russian ballerina Natalya Galinova had a bad attitude and a […]

Cell

Publisher Weekly Review: What if a pulse sent out through cell phones turned every person using one of them into a zombie-like killing machine? That's what happens on page six of King's latest, a glib, technophobic but compelling look at the end of civilization?or at what may turn into a new, extreme, telepathically enforced fascism. […]

Teacher Man : a Memoir

Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. This final memoir in the trilogy that started with Angela's Ashes and continued in 'Tis focuses almost exclusively on McCourt's 30-year teaching career in New York City's public high schools, which began at McKee Vocational and Technical in 1958. His first day in class, a fight broke out and a […]

The Last Days of Dogtown : a Novel

Library Journal Review: Starred Review. In her latest novel, Diamant (The Red Tent; Good Harbor) expertly weaves together seemingly disparate stories of a dying Massachusetts town into something greater than the sum of its parts. In the early 1800s, Dogtown is a village on Cape Ann populated by spinsters, free slaves, and prostitutes, all of […]

Burned : a Regan Reilly Mystery

On the opening pages of Burned, Regan Reilly gets a call from Kit, urging her to come to Hawaii for one last girls’ weekend before she ties the knot. The snowstorm of the century is blanketing the East Coast. Regan can’t get to New York to visit her fiance, Jack “no relation” Reilly, and Kit […]