The Final Cut
Publishers Weekly: Bestseller Coulter (Bombshell) teams with Ellison (Edge of Black) on a thriller that manages to be both intricate and full of jaw-dropping action sequences. Det. Chief Insp. Nicholas Drummond, frequently described as akin to James Bond, travels from London to Manhattan, where a thief known only as the Fox has stolen the Koh-i-Noor […]
The Daylight Gate
Publishers Weekly: To open The Daylight Gate is to be thrust into an England most Americans will have trouble believing ever existed. It’s a wild, superstitious place where the king (James I, Protestant son of the very Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots) has minions who prosecute (and, arguably, persecute) people suspected of witchcraft or Catholicism. […]
The Fountain of St. James Court, Or, Portrait of the Artist As an Old Woman
Library Journal From Ahab's Wife to Abundance, the best-selling, multi-award-winning Naslund is known for creating persuasive female characters. In this novel-within-a-novel, she offers two: French painter Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun, who barely survived the revolution, and Kathryn Callaghan, who has written a fictional account of Vigée-LeBrun. Kathryn, who is standing meditatively by the fountain of Venus Rising […]
Someone
Publishers Weekly In this deceptively simple tour de force, McDermott (Charming Billy, winner of the National Book Award) lays bare the keenly observed life of Marie Commeford, an ordinary woman whose compromised eyesight makes her both figuratively and literally unable to see the world for what it is. When we meet her on the steps […]
The Mayan Secrets
Publishers Weekly Early in bestseller Cussler’s engaging fifth Fargo novel, this one like 2012’s The Tombs with coauthor Perry, intrepid Sam and Remi Fargo, who have been tagging Great White sharks off the west coast of Mexico, volunteer their services after an earthquake hits the mainland. While packing medical supplies into an isolated mountain village, […]
The Return : a Novel
Kirkus Reviews After being diagnosed with a fatal brain condition, a seemingly mild-mannered New York book editor heads to Mexico for a violent confrontation with his past. Richard Marder never fully realized how much taking his young wife, Chole, to New York City from her home in Michoacán, and her subsequent estrangement from her family, […]
MaddAddam : a Novel
Library Journal The compelling conclusion to Atwood's dystopian trilogy opens with a brief synopsis of the series' first two books, Oryx & Crake and The Year of the Flood, then launches directly into the story of the MaddAddamites, survivors of a global pandemic that wiped out most of humanity. Readers, even those unfamiliar with the […]
Bones of the Lost : a Novel
Publishers Weekly: Bestseller Reichs draws on her experiences touring with the USO in Afghanistan for her captivating 16th novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (after 2012’s Bones Are Forever). At home in Charlotte, N.C., the bone expert concludes that the death of an unidentified girl, 14 or 15 years old, was caused by foul play […]
Blind Justice
Kirkus Reviews 2013-09-01 William Monk, of Queen Victoria's Thames River Police (A Sunless Sea, 2012, etc.), steps outside his bailiwick to rescue his friend Sir Oliver Rathbone from a dire fate. It all begins when Monk's wife, Hester, hears from Josephine Raleigh, one of her assistants at the clinic she runs in Portpool Lane, that […]
The Husband's Secret
Library Journal Cecilia is leading the perfect suburban life. She's the envy of other school mothers, and she managed to marry one of the handsome Fitzpatrick boys. While her husband is away on a business trip, Cecilia accidentally finds a note to be opened in the event of his death. His alarmed reaction to her […]