The Dog
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/09/2014 As he did brilliantly in Netherland, O’Neill, in his latest, creates a character who is alienated from his home and social class, and who feels dangerously vulnerable in a country in which he lives a luxurious but precarious existence. The unnamed narrator (we do learn that his given name begins with […]
The Day of Atonement
Library Journal 06/15/2014 Born Sebastião Raposa, separated from his family by Portugal's Inquisition, and trained by bounty hunter Benjamin Weaver (a Liss regular), Sebastian Foxx travels to Lisbon in 1755 to track down the man who killed his father. He finds the requisite accomplices but must then contend with that fearsome earthquake. From a best-selling […]
Bitter Greens
“Forsyth undertakes an ambitious plot and, with a creative presentation, makes it work. She convincingly conveys a fairy tale-like quality in her writing and peppers the narrative with historical detail and some interesting twists that neatly tie together the strands of the story. This unconventional spin on a children's classic is a captivating read and […]
Proof Positive: A Joe Gunther Novel
★ 07/21/2014 Over 26 years and 25 books (most recently, 2013’s Three Can Keep a Secret), Joe Gunther has moved from police detective in Brattleboro, Vt., to special agent of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, and, as he has grown in stature, so has the series. During the Vietnam War, Signal Corps photographer Benjamin Kendall […]
Burn
Overview : Detective Michael Bennett finally returns to New York City—and to the most unsettling, horrific case of his career. At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks to Bennett, the ruthless crime lord whose vengeful mission forced the Bennett family into hiding has been brought down […]
Fool's Assassin
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/30/2014 It’s been 10 years since Hobb concluded the Tawny Man series and ostensibly brought to an end the accounts of FitzChivalry Farseer and the Fool in Fool’s Fate—but now Fitz is back to star in a new trilogy, and the adventure and intrigue is as electrifying and mesmerizing as ever. Posing […]
The Drop
Booklist (starred review) “A tight, gritty little tale of working-class crime in Boston….Lehane breathes pulsing life into his story through the small details of his stoop-shouldered characters’ lives, investing their every mannerism with unspoken emotion.â€
The King's Curse
Publishers Weekly 07/21/2014 Gregory adds to her Cousins’ War series (after The White Princess) an illuminating portrait of historical figure Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, whose royal Plantagenet lineage was both a blessing and a curse. Gregory’s carefully researched story line begins in 1499 with Margaret in mourning for her brother Teddy, who was beheaded […]
Broadchurch
"Kelly folds a loving portrait of rural Dorset and a well-made whodunit into a painstaking account of the grief and unimaginable pain that follow in the wake of one child's murder."—Kirkus (starred review)
Heroes Are My Weakness
“Details of smalltown New England life round out this powerfully successful homage.†(Publishers Weekly (starred review))