All My Puny Sorrows
Publishers Weekly ★ 09/15/2014 Elfrieda’s a concert pianist. When we were kids she would occasionally let me be her page-tuner for the fast pieces that she hadn’t memorized.†This sentence, in the voice of the younger Yolandi, crystallizes the dynamic of the two sisters in Toews’s (Summer of My Amazing Luck) latest novel. While Elfrieda […]
Snow White Red-Handed
Library Journal ★ 11/01/2014 Victorian actress Ophelia Flax quits her music hall job to protect her ward, Prudence Bright, and signs on as a lady's maid to the wife of a crass American millionaire, Homer Coop. When the entourage arrives in the Black Forest of Germany, where Coop has purchased a castle, mysterious events occur. […]
The Burning Room
Publishers Weekly ★ 09/08/2014 An autopsy opens Edgar-winner Connelly’s superb 19th Harry Bosch mystery (after 2012’s The Black Box). Orlando Merced, a mariachi musician, was transformed into a symbol for urban violence by an opportunistic mayoral candidate when he was wounded a decade earlier, a random victim of a drive-by shooting. Merced’s death prompts a […]
A Sudden Light
Seattle Times "Rich and textured…Stein is resourceful, cleverly piecing together the family history with dreams, overheard conversations, and reminiscences…a tale well told."
First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen
Library Journal 09/01/2014 In Lovett's debut novel, The Bookman's Tale, about an antiquarian book dealer, Shakespeare took center stage. This time the author adds bookish intrigue to the life of another luminary of English literature. While the few facts about Jane Austen's life are well known, many scholars have speculated about Austen's experience in love. […]
Paris Match
Publishers Weekly 08/04/2014 Edgar-winner Woods’s intriguing 31st Stone Barrington novel (after Cut and Thrust) takes the New York City attorney to Paris for the opening of his new hotel, l’Arrington. Stone leaves behind his love, Ann Keaton, to manage the campaign of the first-ever pregnant presidential candidate, their mutual friend, Kate Lee, the wife of […]
Leaving Time
Publishers Weekly 06/16/2014 Picoult’s (The Storyteller) novel explores grief, memory, and motherhood through the unlikely lens of elephant behavior. Jenna Metcalf was three years old when her mother, Alice, disappeared from the elephant sanctuary where she worked as a researcher. Ten years later, Jenna is ready to launch a search. After poring over her mother’s […]
The Forgers
Publishers Weekly ★ 09/01/2014 Onetime forger Will, the refined if unreliable narrator of this artfully limned suspense novel from Morrow (The Diviner’s Tale), gets involved in the macabre mutilation-murder in a Montauk, N.Y., beachfront cottage of his girlfriend Meghan’s brother, Adam Diehl, who was, like himself and Meghan, a member an insular circle of rare […]
The Girl Next Door
Washington Post “It's a pleasure to report that Ruth Rendell, at the age of 82 and after publishing more than 60 books, has given us yet another gem. A pleasure but not a surprise, since Rendell has for years, along with her friend P.D. James, been bringing new sophistication and psychological depth to the traditional […]
Lila
The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani : Writing in lovely, angular prose that has the high loneliness of an old bluegrass tune, Ms. Robinson has created a balladlike story about two lost people who, after years of stoic solitariness, unexpectedly find love—not the sudden, transformative passion of romantic movies and novels but a hard-won […]