The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Publishers Weekly š 09/14/2015 Renowned author Kingfs impressive latest collection (after 2010fs Full Dark, No Stars) wraps 20 stories and poems in fascinating commentary. Each workfs preface explains what inspired it and gives readers insight into Kingfs writing methods, with occasional tidbits of his daily life. The stories themselves are meditations on mortality, destiny, and […]
The Song of Hartgrove Hall
“Devotees of television’s Downton Abbey will be drawn in by this novel’s historical detail and emotional story line.” – Library Journal
The Bone Labyrinth
Library Journal 07/01/2015 What ties together the explosion of a manned Chinese rocket, the murder of three American astronauts, and the discovery of caves in Croatia that depict a battle among Neanderthals (with a little help from Homo sapiens), which is painted in blood? This new book by Rollins pits Sigma Force against one of […]
Ashley Bell
Kirkus Reviews 2015-10-08 Koontz (The City, 2014, etc.) searches the shadow lands of Elsewhere, a mystical terrain where Bibi Blair confronts a rare brain cancer. Bibi resides in Newport Beach, California, but her life's love, SEAL team leader Paxton Thorpe, is half a world away. Bibi is an accomplished author, with one novel published, when […]
Sorcerer to the Crown
Library Journal ¡ï 09/15/2015 Having taken over as Sorcerer Royal from his adoptive father, Zacharias Wythe will never be accepted by many of the snobbish members of London's magical elite. While the former slave's African heritage would always have been an obstacle in Regency England, the diminished alchemy in the kingdom under his term is […]
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Overview A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of […]
The Bitter Season
Publishers Weekly 11/23/2015 Bestseller Hoag’s riveting fifth novel featuring Minneapolis detectives Nikki Liska and Sam Kovac (after 2013’s The 9th Girl) finds Nikki transferred to the newly funded cold case unit, where she hopes more regular hours will allow her to spend additional time with her adolescent sons. Her first case lacks leads and evidence: […]
The Girls She Left Behind
Publishers Weekly 11/16/2015 Graves’s dark second Lizzie Snow mystery (after 2015’s Winter at the Door) examines the ugly, soul-destroying things that mark the aftermath of a child abduction. At age 15, Jane Crimmins is kidnapped from a party in a New Haven, Conn., park, along with her 15-year-old cousin, Cam Petry. Jane escapes soon afterward, […]
The Guest Room
Library Journal 08/01/2015 In another fresh and different novel from the New York Times best-selling Bohjalian, Richard Chapman was prepared for a mess when he opens his home to his younger brother's bachelor party. But he wasn't expecting an intimate moment with one of the women hired as entertainment before she and her coworker (both […]
Brooklyn On Fire
Publishers Weekly 11/02/2015 Set in 1890, Levy’s engaging second Mary Handley mystery (after 2015’s Second Street Station) finds the neophyte detective working as a salesclerk at a Brooklyn bookstore, where an elegant Southern woman, Emily Worsham, seeks her out. Emily wants Mary to try to prove that John Worsham, her late uncle who died in […]