Secret of the White Rose
Publishers Weekly Edgar-winner Pintoff proves with her third historical (after 2010's A Curtain Falls) that she's the equal of Caleb Carr. In the fall of 1906, New York City is fixated by the murder trial of anarchist Al Drayson, who planted a dynamite bomb meant for Andrew Carnegie in a horse-drawn cab that exploded and […]
Be Careful What You Wish For
Kirkus Reviews 2014-02-16 The fourth volume of Archer's (Best Kept Secret, 2013, etc.) Clifton Chronicles finds the Barrington-Clifton family ensnared in financial conspiracies over a make-or-break Barrington Shipping project. As Archer covers the family drama from 1957 to '64, Harry Clifton—a married-into-money war hero and best-selling crime writer—is relegated to supporting player while his wife, […]
Tempting Fate
Publishers Weekly 12/09/2013 New York Times bestselling author Green (Family Pictures) returns with the story of Gabby, a 43-year-old Englishwoman living in Connecticut with her husband, Elliott, and their two teenage daughters, Alana and Olivia. Ever since she left England and her unpredictable mother, Gabby has prided herself on being surrounded with tranquility, one of […]
Hunted
Library Journal: A top hostage negotiator for the New Orleans Police Department, Caroline Wallace is facing former colleague Reed Ware, who's got the mayor and the chief of police at the end of his gun. When he manages to take Caroline hostage, Reed explains that he's in danger after having discovered high-level police and government […]
Missing You
Publishers Weekly ★ 01/27/2014 An unlikely bond develops between NYPD detective Kat Donovan and 19-year-old Brandon Phelps in this page-turning, stomach-churning standalone from bestseller Coben (Six Years). While exploring a dating site called YouAreJustMyType.com, Kat discovers the photo of Jeff Raynes, her ex-fiancé, who dumped her 18 years earlier. Brandon’s widowed mother, Dana Phelps, has […]
Death On Blackheath
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Friends in Council in memory of Jean Haywood.
The Weight of Blood
Publishers Weekly 11/11/2013 In this clever, multilayered debut, McHugh deftly explores the past of an Ozark Mountain family (think doublewides, pickups, and possum stew) with plenty to hide and the ruthlessness to keep their secrets hidden. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Dane, from Henbane, Mo., is grieving for her murdered friend, Cheri, and her mother, Lila, who vanished […]
Worthy Brown's Daughter
Kirkus Reviews 2013-10-21 Legal thriller writer Margolin (Sleight of Hand, 2013, etc.) turns back the clock to confront murder, deceit and slavery in frontier Oregon. It's 1860. Matthew Penny's established a hardscrabble law practice in bustling Portland, but Matthew isn't happy. On the trail from Ohio to Oregon, his wife, Rachel, drowned during a river […]
Ripper : a Novel
The New York Times Book Review – Marilyn Stasio Isabel Allende says that Ripper is her first murder mystery, and that it was a lot of fun to write. It's probably more accurate to say that this…thoroughly charming book is the author's own eccentric notion of a murder mystery, and that it's a lot of […]
Still Life With Bread Crumbs
Donated to the library in memory of Jean Haywood by Friends in Council. The New York Times Book Review – Joanna Rakoff There comes a moment in every novelist's career when she sloughs off the weight of the past—the conventions and obsessions, the stylistic fallbacks and linguistic tics, the influence of early masters—and ventures into […]