The Black Tower
Clara and Mr. Tiffany : a Novel
The Washington Post – Eugenia Zukerman …Clara and Mr. Tiffany is about art and commerce, love and duty. Peopled with characters both imagined and historic, it is also a study of New York's ultra-rich and desperate poor, its entitled men and its disenfranchised women. And it is the story of one extraordinary woman's passion and […]
The Poison Tree
The Washington Post – Maureen Corrigan In its intensity and overwhelming sense of loss, the voice-over that opens Erin Kelly's terrific first suspense novel…is most directly reminiscent of the unnamed narrator of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca…Karen Clarke, like du Maurier's heroine, is a nice person who has had terrible things happen to her because of […]
The Radleys
The New York Times – Matthew Sharpe The vampire novel is a crowded genre these days. To distinguish itself, a book will need inventiveness, wit, beauty, truth and a narrative within which these attributes can flourish. The Radleys, by Matt Haig, has got them…As befits a vampire story, the wit tends to be sharp, and […]
What the Night Knows
Library Journal The author's first book, Star Quest, an sf paperback, was published in 1969. Since then, Koontz has written scores of titles in a wide range of genres from children's books to graphic novels. Yet, from his always-popular body of work there sometimes emerges one of particular merit, one likely to add even more […]
Dead or Alive
Los Angeles Times: "Clancy fans may regard "Dead or Alive" as rather like one of those NBA "dream teams" they throw together for the Olympics; win, lose or draw it's fun to see them all on the court. This time, the best characters from all Clancy's previous novels are on the case, including Jack Ryan […]
Cross Fire
The Today Show – Al Roker: "[Patterson's] books don't pussyfoot around when it comes to the villains. These are bad, bad people… [I, Alex Cross] is political, with a lot of intrigue in high places."
Full Dark, No Stars
The New York Times – Janet Maslin: Mr. King's Full Dark, No Stars has a lot of straight-up horror. The sheer size of its rodent population is enough to stamp it with the horror label. But it will serve as a page turner even for the reader who is aghast at some of the whisker-twitching […]
I Still Dream About You : a Novel
The Washington Post – Sarah Pekkanen: For a comic mystery romp, Fannie Flagg's latest book, I Still Dream About You, has a lot of talk about suicide, incest, cross-dressing and vicious backstabbing. But hey, who says those are bad things? Flagg, the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and a half-dozen […]
Crescent Dawn
Library Journal The Cussler family's latest Dirk Pitt adventure (after Arctic Drift) finds the head of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) with his wife on vacation in Turkey. While visiting a friend at a museum, they stumble onto a major theft of priceless Roman artifacts connected to a sunken ship in the Mediterranean. […]