The Bells
Secrets of Eden : a Novel
Publishers Weekly: Bohjalian (Law of Similars) has built a reputation on his rich characters and immersing readers in diverse subjects?homeopathy, animal rights activism, midwifery?and his latest surely won?t disappoint. The morning after her baptism into the Rev. Stephen Drew?s Vermont Baptist church, Alice Hayward and her abusive husband are found dead in their home, an […]
The Story Sisters
Booklist: The always dazzling Hoffman has outdone herself . . . .Her alluring characters are soulful, their suffering mythic, and though the sorrows are many and the body count high, this is an entrancing and romantic drama shot through with radiant beauty and belief in human resilience and transformation. Starred Review
The Birthday Present
Linda Oliver – Library Journal: Ivor Tesham, a dashing member of Parliament, decides to give his married mistress, Hebe, an unusual birthday gift. He hires two men to kidnap her and transport her, bound and gagged, to their weekend love nest. Everything has been carefully planned-when the kidnappers' car is hit by a truck shortly […]
High Plains Tango
Kissing Games of the World : a Novel
Jane Jorgenson – Library Journal: Shelton's third novel (after A Piece of Normal) is an engrossing, charming, and often funny exploration of love and the relationships that result. Artist Jamie McClintock and her son, Arley, are happy where they are. A year ago, Harris Goddard asked them to move in with him and his grandson, […]
Skeletons At the Feast
Kirkus Reviews: Love in a time of war, 1945-1948. Though occasionally groaning under the weight of its mighty themes-man's-inhumanity-to-man, the-horror-the-horror, hope-rising-from-rubble-sheer storytelling here ultimately wins out, trumping the novel's self-consciously mythic ambitions. It features a desperate trio: Anna Emmerich, Prussian aristocrat with "[h]air the color of corn silk," her strapping lover, Callum Finnella, Scottish POW, […]
The Third Angel : a Novel
Publishers Weekly: In this elegant and stunning novel, veteran heartstring-puller Hoffman (Here on Earth; Seventh Heaven) examines the lives of three women at different crossroads in their lives, tying their London-centered stories together in devastating retrospect. High powered New York attorney Maddy Heller arrives in 1999 London having had an affair with Paul, her sister […]
Three Girls and Their Brother : a Novel
Kirkus Reviews: Four teenage siblings, suddenly spotlit by fame, are forced to take responsibility when the grownups in their lives offer inadequate guidance. Playwright Rebeck's first novel is a wickedly enjoyable expose of modern celebrity; the cruel power wielded by fashionistas, PR minders, agents, paparazzi, Hollywood stars and entourages; and above all the perils of […]
Mad Dash
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Dash Bateman and her husband, Andrew, share a house in Washington, DC. Or at least they did, until photographer Dash impulsively dashes off to their vacation cabin in rural Virginia, leaving history professor Andrew on his own. Surely, the dog abandoned on their porch couldn't be the reason for the […]