A Fatal Grace
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: The cozy mystery, which aims to charm as much as challenge, has a graceful practitioner of that artful dodge in Louise Penny.
The Cruelest Month : a Three Pines Mystery
Susan Clifford Braun – Library Journal: The Quebecois village of Three Pines (first introduced in Still Lifeand Fatal Grace) is once again the scene of a perplexing murder, and Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team have caught the case. Madeleine Favreau, a cheerful and well-liked village resident, collapsed and died at an impromptu seance […]
Storm Cycle
Publishers Weekly: At the start of this fast-paced romantic thriller, the second from the bestselling mother and son Johansen team (Silent Thunder), Rachel Kirby, a computer whiz in Houston, Tex., is working hard to spur medical research on Krabbe's disease, a rare nervous-system disorder afflicting her sister, Allie. After Rachel narrowly survives a sniper's bullet, […]
Finger Lickin' Fifteen
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: Evanovich writes with flair in an absurdist vein that her imitators can only envy.
Last Seen In Massilia
True Colors
Elizabeth Mellett – Library Journal: Teenage sisters Winona, Aurora, and Vivi Ann are shattered when their mother dies, but what comes close to destroying their relationship is the reaction of their father, a hard man who dotes on his youngest daughter, Vivi Ann, disparages Winona, the eldest, and ignores Aurora, who tries hard to keep […]
The Catch : a Joe Gunther Novel
Jo Ann Vicarel – Library Journal: The killing of a deputy sheriff in Vermont leads to the death of a big-time drug dealer in Maine. When a joint task force including the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sends local, state, and federal agents to investigate, the complicated trail leads […]
A Spoonful of Poison : an Agatha Raisin Mystery
From Publishers Weekly: When elderly Mrs. Andrews blithely jumps to her death off the tower of Saint Odo the Severe during a church charity event in the Cotswolds village of Comfrey Magna, LSD-laced jam proves to be the cause in bestseller Beaton's saucy 19th Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2007's Kissing Christmas Goodbye). Agatha joins the […]
Sweetheart
Teresa L. Jacobsen – Library Journal: Strung-out police detective Archie Sheridan, still haunted by serial killer Gretchen Lowell, returns in Cain's high-octane follow-up to Heartsick. This time the first murder victim shows up in a park, followed by spare parts in a nearby doghouse. But trouble truly explodes when Hannibal Lector-like imprisoned killer Gretchen is […]
The September Society
Jo Ann Vicarel – Library Journal: When Oxford student George Payson goes missing, his mother asks Charles Lennox to find him. All avenues of investigation point to foul play, and then Payson's garroted body is found in the Christ Church Meadow. Wealthy, intelligent, Oxford-educated, and a detective of some repute, Charles seeks to determine what […]