To the End of the Land
Kirkus Reviews: A provocative antiwar novel by one of Israel's best-known writers (See Under: Love, 1989, etc.). If Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a post-apocalyptic journey across a ruined landscape, Grossman's latest describes a walkabout across forbidding country that is ever in danger of being consumed by war. Ora and Avram meet in a hospital […]
Cold Vengeance
Library Journal: Pendergast is seriously wounded on a trip with brother-in-law Judson Esterhazy, who tells Pendergast that his wife, Helen, is still alive and then abandons him. Now Pendergast has a reason to live—he starts hunting for Helen and thereby upsets a shady international organization no end. This is the second in a trilogy about […]
Eyes Wide Open
Kirkus Reviews: Inspired by the death of the author's nephew,this is a grim psychological thriller sure to shock readers. Nothing is evil if it's done out of love. Such is the mantra of a convicted murderer's cult followers. A troubled teenager falls from a cliff, an apparent suicide. But why would the boy remove one […]
The Ideal Man
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Garwood (Shadow Music) turns out another high-quality romantic thriller. St. Louis trauma surgeon Ellie Sullivan walks in on a failed gun-dealer bust, saves an FBI agent, and quickly becomes more than friendly with another agent, Max Daniels. As Ellie and Max develop their relationship, the dealers send an assassin after Ellie; the […]
Acceptable Loss : a William Monk Novel
“Give her a good murder and a shameful social evil,†The New York Times Book Review once declared, “and Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens’s eyes pop.†And Perry’s new William and Hester Monk story, a mesmerizing masterpiece of innocence and evil on London’s docks, outshines all her previous novels […]
Turn of Mind
The New York Times – Zoe Slutzky: This is a portrait of an unstable mind, an expansive, expertly wrought imagining of memory's failures and potential…Alzheimer's is bleak territory, and to saddle Jennifer with suspected murder seems cruel and unusual punishment. But in LaPlante's vivid prose, her waning mind proves a prism instead of a prison, […]
The Last Werewolf
The New York Times – Justin Cronin The challenge for any writer working within an established genre, especially a genre with a reputation for high camp, is to bring something new to the table while adhering to tradition. On both points, Duncan…scores high marks…Marlowe…deliver[s] his lengthy confession…with the pounding energy of water shot from a […]
Burnt Mountain
From one of our most acclaimed writers comes this dramatic tale of a well-born Southern woman whose life is forever changed by the betrayal of her mother and by the man she loves Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp – Camp Sherwood Forest in the […]
A Drop of the Hard Stuff : a Matthew Scudder Novel
The Washington Post – Maureen Corrigan Sometimes, you open up a book, and you just know: You're in the hands of a master. Different things can signal that a golden read is about to begin: the voice…the atmosphere…the setting…In the case of Lawrence Block's latest Matthew Scudder novel, the tip-off is a brazenly simple plot […]
The Story of Beautiful Girl
The Washington Post – Suki Casanave The real mystery of this book lies not so much in the plot twists…but…inside the heads of its characters: How does someone like Homan or Lynnie, living with mental disability, experience and think about life? Simon addresses that question with compassion and heart, informed by her experience with her […]