Time and Time Again
Library Journal 12/01/2015 Hugh Stanton, visiting his old Cambridge professor at Christmastime in 2024, gets pulled into one of their old "what if?" games. Professor McCluskey liked to challenge students to think of the one thing in history they would change. It turns out not to be an idle question this time, and Hugh learns […]
The Things We Keep
Library Journal ¡ï 12/01/2015 Thirty-eight-year-old Anna Forster is married with a challenging career as a paramedic when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Her decline is rapid, and before long she's divorced, unemployed, and living at Rosalind House, an assisted-living facility. The residents are at least twice Anna's age except for Luke, another young victim […]
A Doubter's Almanac
Publishers Weekly š 08/31/2015 The mysteries of higher mathematics and the even deeper mysteries of the human heart are the unlikely themes of Caninfs (America America) novel. With stunning assurance and elegant, resonant prose, Canin follows the life of Milo Andret, who is both blessed and afflicted with mathematical genius. Milofs aspirations take him from […]
Black Rabbit Hall
Publishers Weekly 12/21/2015 This leisurely paced modern British gothic is the debut novel from journalist Chase. Thirty-two-year-old schoolteacher Lorna and her fiancé, Jon, a carpenter who works for his family construction business, are Londoners in Cornwall to inspect possible venues for their marriage celebration. One place fetching Lorna’s eye is the estate Pencraw Hall, better […]
The Ex
Publishers Weekly 10/26/2015 Near the start of bestseller Burke’s gripping standalone, New York City DA Olivia Randall receives a desperate phone call from the school-age daughter of her ex-fiancé, Jack Harris, whose wife, Molly, was killed in a mass shooting three years earlier at Manhattan’s Penn Station. Jack has now been implicated in a triple […]
Brotherhood In Death
Library Journal 09/01/2015 In this latest starring Lt. Eve Dallas, Dennis Mira is about to chastise his cousin, judge/senator Edward Mira, for selling their grandfather's West Village brownstone when Edward appears, battered and bloodied, then promptly vanishes.
A Taste For Nightshade
Library Journal ★ 11/15/2015 Grace Moore is pleased to receive a proposal of marriage from a dashing suitor, but realizes soon after the wedding that he is far more interested in her money than in marriage, and that he may be concealing even darker secrets. After being whisked off to an isolated and rundown manor, […]
The High Mountains of Portugal
Library Journal ¡ï 02/01/2016 Like Martel's celebrated Life of Pi, this new book investigates a world of tragedy linked with animals, but the context is completely different. In three distinct yet connected parts, each centered on the high plains in northern Portugal, the narrative describes an innovative arc of endings and beginnings. The first section […]
Find Her
Publishers Weekly 11/30/2015 Florence “Flora” Dane, the victim and survivor at the center of bestseller Gardner’s compelling eighth novel featuring Boston Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren (after 2014’s Fear Nothing), has a flat affect and a burning compulsion to meet sexual predators five years after the FBI rescued her from a man who abducted her while […]
The Art of War
Publishers Weekly 11/16/2015 In bestseller Coonts’s superior military thriller, the murders—or attempted murders—of several high-level Washington, D.C., government officials, including the CIA director and the FBI director, are a major concern for Jake Grafton, who becomes the interim CIA director, and CIA burglar Tommy Carmellini, last seen together in 2013’s Pirate Alley. Meanwhile, Chinese agents […]