Chill Factor
Publisher Weekly Review: Lust, jealousy and murder suffuse Brown’s crisp thriller (after White Hot), set in the snowbound mountains of North Carolina. Lilly and Dutch Burton’s marriage didn’t withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin in bucolic Cleary, N.C., where the […]
Crusader’s Cross : a Dave Robicheaux Novel
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Superb writing and a throbbing pace lift two-time Edgar-winner Burke’s powerful, many-layered 14th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2003’s Last Car to Elysian Fields), which involves venal and arrogant members of a wealthy family that can trace its lineage to fifth-century France as well as the machinations of the New Orleans […]
The Twelfth Card : a Lincoln Rhyme Novel
Killing machine Thompson Boyd is after high school student Geneva Settle, and it’s up to detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protegee to figure out why. Deaver’s stunning twists strike at the very heart of the U.S. Constitution.
1776
Gordon S. Wood – The Washington Post David McCullough, America\’s most celebrated popular historian, has done it again — written another engaging work of narrative history. This book, however, is very different from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams. Not only is it much shorter than those gigantic tomes, but it […]