Listing Type: Adult Fiction

Blue Magic

Kirkus Reviews Sequel to Indigo Springs (2009), where magic, driven into the "unreal" in the 17th century by witch-burning Fyremen, is returning, setting off power struggles and war. In the unreal, magic (a blue substance called vitagua) is frozen into glaciers and as it melts it trickles back into our world. The process can be […]

The Book of Madness and Cures : a Novel

Library Journal This debut novel from a prize-winning poet is an elegant portrait of a resolute woman who practices medicine in 16th-century Venice. After the disappearance of her physician father, who had trained her, Gabriella Mondini is no longer able to work openly in her beloved profession. So she sets out with two servants to […]

Fifty Shades Darker

Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle […]

Fifty Shades of Grey

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, […]

The Lost Years

Kirkus Reviews: Tempers discreetly fray and corpses mount around a parchment that just might be the only surviving letter from Jesus Christ. Even though she has a serious case of Alzheimer's, the Bergen County police are certain that Kathleen Lyons is the person who shot her beloved husband Jonathan, a retired professor, in their home […]

Dorchester Terrace

Library Journal: Best-selling author Perry brings back longtime Victorian-era favorites the Pitts (Treason at Lisson Grove). A traitor is hidden in the very ranks of the Special Branch, and when a retired spy is murdered, the couple know time is running out for his unit's mission

The Shoemaker's Wife

Library Journal Italian teenagers Ciro Lazzari and Enza Ravanelli feel an instant romantic connection when they first meet in the Alps in 1908, but their budding relationship is interrupted when Ciro must quickly leave Italy after learning a local priest's shameful secret. The two meet again years later in New York City, where Ciro works […]

Sacre Bleu : a Comedy D'art

Washington Post Book World: “Moore has produced eight books that deftly blend surreal, occult and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture. Powered by engines of the abnormal and unlikely, his tales feature eccentric lowlifes who find their desperate existences hilariously remade by intrusions from other spheres.”

Indigo Springs

Kirkus Reviews Magic, driven underground in the 17th century, is trying to return-but will the result be salvation or apocalypse?After her father dies, Astrid Lethewood is astonished to discover that he was far from the drunken wastrel the town of Indigo Springs, Ore., assumed. In fact, he crafted, of magical objects called "chantments," a lipstick […]