The Other Story
Library Journal 04/01/2014 With this story of a self-absorbed, newly wealthy writer struggling with his identity and coming to terms with the shocking secrets of his family's past, de Rosnay (Sarah's Key; A Secret Kept) continues her literary trend of combining international locations and complex characters. Nicolas Duhamel, a best-selling author who has changed his […]
The Serpent of Venice
Publishers Weekly 01/13/2014 Moore’s mash-up of Othello and The Merchant of Venice with Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado†is a standout sequel to Fool, his twisted retelling of King Lear from 2009. After a dastardly trio of Venetians (including Iago) plot to bury alive Pocket the fool for thwarting an attempt to cook up a […]
Bridge to Haven
Publishers Weekly 02/10/2014 Rivers (Redeeming Love) returns with a page-turning recasting of the story of the prodigal son, here a prodigal daughter. In 1936, Abra Matthews is found as a newborn under a bridge in the small California town of Haven by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman. She’s taken in, but never feels as if she quite […]
Standup Guy
Publishers Weekly 10/14/2013 A misunderstanding leads Stone Barrington to take on ex-con John Fratelli as a client at the start of bestseller Woods’s polished 28th outing for the suave New York City attorney (after 2013’s Doing Hard Time). Fratelli put his 25 years in Sing Sing to good use by protecting fellow prisoner Eduardo Buono, […]
The Apple Orchard
Kirkus Reviews Antiques treasure hunter Tess Delaney lives a high-octane existence and is on the cusp of the success she's fought for, so now may not be the best time to question everything; but as events pile up and secrets are uncovered, forcing her to re-evaluate, she may find that a perfect life she never […]
Doing Harm : a Novel
“A twist worthy of a surgical knot. Flawed characters standing on moral pedestals. Insight into the world of medicine and the ambitious geniuses who make life and death decisions. Doing Harm is more faction than fiction, presenting a world so close to our own that you find yourself second guessing the characters as if they're […]
Three Brothers : a Novel
"With overtones of Greek tragedy and Charles Dickens, this is a literary and engrossing parable and a loving tribute to London in all its depravity." —Library Journal, starred review
The Enchanted : a Novel
Booklist “Evocative. . . . Denfeld’s humanizing of the potential for horror that is within all of us and her insistence that the reader see the beauty in the darkest corners of life sizzles through her sharp prose, which both makes us flinch and invites us to imagine.â€
Blossom Street Brides : a Blossom Street Novel
Kirkus Reviews 2014-01-21 Spring is in the air on Blossom Street, and the baby-blanket window display at A Good Yarn might just change a few lives in bright, unexpected ways. While she helps couples choose perfect symbols of their love and commitment, jewelry-store saleswoman and diamond specialist Lauren Elliott has been waiting years for a […]
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Library Journal Horan's second novel is widely anticipated, as her debut, Loving Frank, has sold nearly a million copies and received exceptional reviews. Once more, Horan depicts a rule-breaking relationship, that of Robert Louis Stevenson and American divorcee Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, who became his wife. They met in France in 1875, Fanny having […]