End of Watch
“King has dealt before with this novel’s different themes—endowment with dangerous supernatural powers, the zombifying effect of modern consumer electronics—but he finds fresh approaches to them and inventive ways to introduce them in the lives of his recurring cast of sympathetic characters, whose pains and triumphs the reader feels. King’s legion of fans will find […]
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Publishers Weekly š 09/14/2015 Renowned author Kingfs impressive latest collection (after 2010fs Full Dark, No Stars) wraps 20 stories and poems in fascinating commentary. Each workfs preface explains what inspired it and gives readers insight into Kingfs writing methods, with occasional tidbits of his daily life. The stories themselves are meditations on mortality, destiny, and […]
Dark Corners
starred review Booklist "A worthy addition to the canon… Rendell once again exhumes the depths of obsession and traces each step in a sympathetic character's downward spiral. It has both a mythic element—all the trouble starts with a box that shouldn't have been opened—and a Victorian bent, in that it features an inheritance that dooms […]
The First Time I Saw Him
Vertigo Fourty Two
Booklist Review *Starred Review* Grimes, recipient of the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America in 2012, shows what mastery is all about in this compelling new Richard Jury mystery. To begin with, Grimes is superlative at describing the physical world; the view, for example, from the champagne bar called Vertigo 42 on […]
The Boston Girl
Publishers Weekly 10/06/2014 Bestseller Diamant (The Red Tent) tells a gripping story of a young Jewish woman growing up in early-20th-century Boston. Addie Baum, an octogenarian grandmother in 1985, relates long-ago history to a beloved granddaughter, answering the question: “How did I get to be the woman I am today?†The answer: by living a […]
Revival
Publishers Weekly ★ 09/15/2014 This spellbinding supernatural thriller from MWA Grand Master King chronicles one man’s efforts to, as narrator Jamie Morton phrases it, “tap into the secrets of the universe.†Charles Jacobs, a Methodist minister in rural Harlow, Maine, loses his faith when his wife and child die in a hideous car accident, but […]
The Girl Next Door
Washington Post “It's a pleasure to report that Ruth Rendell, at the age of 82 and after publishing more than 60 books, has given us yet another gem. A pleasure but not a surprise, since Rendell has for years, along with her friend P.D. James, been bringing new sophistication and psychological depth to the traditional […]
Mr. Mercedes
The New York Times Book Review – Megan Abbott King is clearly having fun, and so are we…For the first half of the novel, King tickles our anxieties, his detective engaging in a classic cat-and-mouse game with the killer. But you can feel him wriggling against the hard-boiled tradition, shaking the hinges. Soon enough, in […]
All the Light We Cannot See
Publishers Weekly ★ 02/17/2014 In 1944, the U.S. Air Force bombed the Nazi-occupied French coastal town of St. Malo. Doerr (Memory Wall) starts his story just before the bombing, then goes back to 1934 to describe two childhoods: those of Werner and Marie-Laure. We meet Werner as a tow-headed German orphan whose math skills earn […]