China Dolls
The New York Times Book Review – Jennifer Keishin Armstrong It all adds up to a fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese-American woman in the 1930s and '40s.
The Vacationers
The New York Times Book Review – Margo Rabb …gorgeously written…the novel's joy and humor are infectious. Straub may be an heir to Laurie Colwin, crafting characters that are smart, addictively charming, delightfully misanthropic and fun…When I turned the last page, I felt as I often do when a vacation is over: grateful for the […]
The Silkworm
The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani …[Rowling's] appealing detective hero Cormoran Strike is back, and so is his resourceful sidekick, Robin Ellacott, a gumshoe team that's on its way to becoming as celebrated for its mystery-solving skills as Nick and Nora Charles of Thin Man fame, and Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander…What keeps the […]
Sisters of Treason
The Sunday Times “Fremantle manages to combine pacey storytelling with superb background…terrifically entertaining.â€
Making Marion: Where's Robin Hood When You Need Him?
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/09/2014 Marion Miller just wants directions to the Sherwood Forest visitor center, but ends up working behind the counter at the Peace and Pigs Holiday Park in Nottingham, England. On the run from an engagement she doesn’t want and in search of secrets her long-dead father kept buried, Marion ends up staying […]
Top Secret Twenty-one
Stephanie Plum is back This time Stephanie’s in deep. To get to the bottom of the mess, she’s going to have to keep things Top Secret.
Nine Lives to Die : a Mrs. Murphy Mystery
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2014 Murder and mayhem are the order of the day in bestseller Brown’s well-plotted 22nd Mrs. Murphy mystery (after 2013’s The Litter of the Law). A winter charity function ends badly when wealthy car dealer Pete Vavilov, a leader of the Silver Linings charity, which helps the disadvantaged youth of Albermarle County, Va., […]
Cop Town
Publishers Weekly 04/14/2014 Violent crime, police politics, and race relations all figure in this scintillating standalone set in 1970s Atlanta, from bestseller Slaughter (Martin Misunderstood). Maggie Lawson comes from a disjointed, emotionally disconnected family of law enforcement officers, and her time spent as an Atlanta PD cop has hardened her to many of the job’s […]
The Beekeeper's Ball
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/09/2014 Wiggs's second in her Bella Vista Chronicles series (The Apple Orchard) juggles a modern love story with a heart-pounding chronicle of the Danish resistance in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen, creating a dazzling intergenerational tale of courage and hope. No-frills, 30-year-old Isabelle Johansen is busy organizing the opening of her cooking school, a new […]
The Dead Will Tell: A Kate Burkholder Novel
Library Journal ★ 06/15/2014 Thirty-five years ago in Painters Mill, OH, the Hochstetler family was robbed in the middle of the night. The crime began as a quick money scheme but swiftly turned sinister, resulting in the deaths of the entire Amish family except for a teenage son who escaped. No suspects were found, and […]