Hot Pursuit
Publisher Weekly Review At the start of Edgar-winner Woods's glossy 33rd Stone Barrington novel (after Insatiable Appetites), the bourbon-sipping lawyer and aviator takes possession of a brand-new private jet on a chilly winter's day at an airfield in Wichita, Kans. The Citation M2 comes complete with an attractive female copilot, Pat Frank, with whom widower […]
Cold Betrayal
From the Publisher “Ali's good heart and sense of justice combine withwell-paced suspense to create a satisfying whole.†–Kirkus Reviews
World Gone By
Kirkus Reviews ★ 2014-12-17 A multilayered, morally ambiguous novel of family, blood and betrayal.Working against a backdrop of World War II, Lehane continues and perhaps concludes the ambitious series of historical novels that began with the epic sweep of The Given Day (2008) and continued with Live By Night (2012). Almost a decade after the […]
Dark Rooms
Publishers Weekly ★ 01/26/2015 The bullet that snuffs out the life of 16-year-old wild child Nica Baker hits her family like a hollow-point, especially psychologically enmeshed big sister Grace, in this suspenseful, sad, and shattering first novel from Vanity Fair contributing editor Anolik. Only a year older, and the yang to Nica’s yin, good girl […]
Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule
“History—and its colorful characters—come alive.†–USA Today
The Bookseller
Library Journal ★ 02/15/2015 With her freshly painted sunny yellow bedroom in 1962 Denver, Kitty Miller leads a content if solitary life. Running a bookshop with her best friend, Frieda, is a welcome break from teaching school. Everything about Kitty's life seems benignly commonplace until she begins waking up in another bedroom, in another life: […]
The Dragon of Handale
Clark's outstanding fifth mystery set in 14th-century England (after 2012's A Parliament of Spies) finds series heroine Hildegard in transition. Having returned from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the former abbess is considering rejoining her religious order after a year. Her prioress suggests that Hildegard instead spend time at Handale Priory, "somewhere near Northumberland's […]
Fiercombe Manor
Library Journal Review Starred Review. In her pregnant and unmarried state, Alice is considered a disgrace and burden on her family, so she leaves bustling London for the lonely, quiet estate of Fiercombe Manor. It is 1933, and on her own, Alice is left to perform light housework and walk through the wild and (mostly) […]
A Spool of Blue Thread
Library Journal Review Starred Review. Three generations of Whitshanks have lived in the family home in Baltimore since the 1920s, in which they have loved, squabbled, protected secrets, had children, and, in some cases, led inauthentic lives. Using her signature gifts for brilliant dialog and for intricately framing the complex messiness of parental and spousal […]
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Publisher Weekly Review Gaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane) again delivers masterful compositions and style in his third collection. His decision to include poetry is vindicated by the concrete images in "Making a Chair" and the mournful tones of "Witch Work." Among the prose pieces are two works of stark horror: "'The […]