Concealed In Death
Kirkus Reviews 2014-02-03 A grisly discovery in a decrepit Hell's Kitchen building opens a case for Lt. Eve Dallas that has its roots all the way back in 2045. Eve's billionaire developer husband, Roarke, who's purchased the hard-luck site in order to rehab it, strikes the first blow into a wall that's crumbling even more […]
The Strangling On the Stage
Added to the library in memory of Jean Haywood by Friends in Council. Publishers Weekly 12/16/2013 The world of amateur dramatics provides the backdrop for British author Brett’s witty and intelligent 15th Fethering mystery (after 2012’s The Corpse on the Court). During a rehearsal of George Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple, the body of actor […]
The Bootlegger : an Isaac Bell Adventure
Publishers Weekly 01/13/2014 The Prohibition era provides the backdrop for bestseller Cussler’s spirited seventh Isaac Bell adventure (after 2013’s The Striker, also coauthored with Scott), in which Comintern agents scheme to take over America. Soviet operator Marat Zolner has set up a bootlegging business on the East Coast designed to reap massive profits to fund […]
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 […]
The Dead In Their Vaulted Arches
Publishers Weekly ★ 10/28/2013 The mystery is personal for Flavia de Luce in Bradley’s excellent sixth novel featuring the precocious 11-year-old sleuth in post-WWII England (after 2013’s Speaking from Among the Bones). The body of Harriet de Luce, her mother who disappeared in a mountaineering accident when Flavia was about a year old, has finally […]
The Last Enchantments
Library Journal ★ 11/15/2013 Young man studies abroad, falls in love with his new surroundings, and meets a beautiful woman: that sounds like the gist of every campus story ever told, but Finch's charming effort distinguishes itself with its personal touch. After graduating from Yale University and working on the doomed John Kerry presidential campaign […]
By Blood We Live
“Once more, Duncan’s elegant, striking prose is the star in his enthralling conclusion to the Last Werewolf trilogy . . . There are plenty of battles, blood, and sexy escapades; but the real treat continues to be Duncan’s beautifully twisted way with language and the profound thesis he poses about humanity. Defiant and dramatic to […]
Private L.A
Overview Private Jack Morgan investigates the disappearance of the biggest superstar couple in Hollywood. Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, with three perfect children. They maybe two of the biggest mega movie stars in the world, but they're also great parents, philanthropists and just all-around good people. When they disappear without a word […]