What Is Mine
Publisher Weekly Review: The Scandinavian crime fiction juggernaut continues with Norwegian Holt's U.S. debut, a well-written if overly long suspense thriller set in Norway. The novel opens with the abduction of nine-year-old Emilie Selbu, the first of several such kidnappings, and the complex backstory of Aksel Seier, a man imprisoned in the 1950s for a […]
Between, Georgia
Library Journal Review: After a great debut with Gods in Alabama, Jackson's follow-up poses the same dilemma for readers: you can't wait to finish it but don't want it to end. Between, GA, is a real place?it lies between Athens and Atlanta?but Jackson's little town is fictional. Thirty-year-old Nonny exemplifies between: she works as an […]
The Book of the Dead
Publisher Weekly Review: Bestsellers Preston and Child have come up with another gripping, action-packed page-turner in this concluding volume to a trilogy pitting their Holmesian hero, FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast, against his Mycroft-turned-Moriarty?his younger brother, Diogenes. Picking up shortly after the events of 2005's Dance of Death, the book opens with the arrival of a […]
The Camel Club
Library Journal Review: Just outside the White House gates, a ragtag group of conspiracy theorists gathers to find the hidden truth behind the actions of the power elite in Washington, DC. Led by the mysterious and aptly aliased Oliver Stone, the Camel Club develops wild conspiracy theories about the inner workings of the U.S. government?theories […]
At First Sight
Sparks brings back two characters from his bestseller "True Believer" in this continuing saga of extraordinary love between Jeremy Marsh and the love of his life Lexie Darnell. As Marsh looks forward to the birth of his first child, old wounds are reopened, setting off a chain of events that will change the course of […]
The Widow of the South
Publisher Weekly Review: Hicks's big historical first novel, based on true events in his hometown, follows the saga of Carrie McGavock, a lonely Confederate wife who finds purpose transforming her Tennessee plantation into a hospital and cemetery during the Civil War. Carrie is mourning the death of several of her children, and, in the absence […]