Our Souls At Night
Publishers Weekly ★ 03/02/2015 Within the first three pages of this gripping and tender novel, Addie Moore, a 70-year-old widow, invites her neighbor, Louis Waters, to sleep over. “No, not sex,†she clarifies. “I’m talking about getting through the night. And lying warm in bed, companionably.†Although Louis is taken off guard, the urgency of […]
The Jezebel Remedy
Library Journal ★ 05/01/2015 Clark (The Legal Limit) spends his days as a Virginia circuit court judge, which explains why he is able to portray the inner workings of the legal system with ease and dexterity. It also accounts for why his latest effort is only the fourth book the author has published in 15 […]
Second Street Station
"Mary Handley, an unconventional nineteenth-century female sleuth whom readers are sure to love…overcomes trained killers—using her jujitsu skills and quick wits—and even finds time to take a lover, in defiance of social propriety. Readers won’t expect the surprise denouement as Handley steals the show and guarantees readership for a sequel." —Booklist
River Sing Me Home
Folly and Glory
Booklist Review : This is the fourth and concluding volume of the Berrybender Narratives, McMurtry's saga of the four-year odyssey of the Berrybender family as they traverse the various river valleys of the American West in the 1830s. Once again, the heart of the story is the evolving relationship between Tasmin Berrybender and her enigmatic, […]
Vertigo Fourty Two
Booklist Review *Starred Review* Grimes, recipient of the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America in 2012, shows what mastery is all about in this compelling new Richard Jury mystery. To begin with, Grimes is superlative at describing the physical world; the view, for example, from the champagne bar called Vertigo 42 on […]
The Green Road
“Impressive…. Enright writes with authority and confidence…. Though stories end, The Green Road seems to say, the lives of the people who inhabit them go on.†(David Leavitt – The New York Times Book Review)
The Sage of Waterloo: A Tale
Library Journal ★ 05/01/2015 Just when it seemed nothing new could be written about the Battle of Waterloo, this delightful fable appears: Waterloo, or rather the critical battle for Hougoumont, as refracted through the memories—smells and sounds as much as sight—of countless generations of rabbits and narrated by one white rabbit, William, whose ancestor may […]
The Liar
Library Journal 04/15/2015 Appalled by the depth of her husband's deceit and the debt he leaves behind when he is lost in a boating accident, Shelby Pomeroy Foxworth takes her three-year-old daughter, Callie, and heads home to her family and her Smoky Mountain roots. Reconnecting with her past and building a life for herself and […]
The Reluctant Matador
Publishers Weekly 04/20/2015 Near the start of Pryor’s intricately-plotted fifth Hugh Marston novel (after 2014’s The Button Man), Hugh, the security chief at the American embassy in Paris, is supposed to meet Amy Dreiss, the 19-year-old stepdaughter of an old friend, Bart Denum, at a restaurant for breakfast, but she fails to show. Amy came […]