Corrag
Library Journal: In 1692, British soldiers massacred members of the MacDonald clan after having enjoyed the clan's hospitality in its Scottish stronghold of Glencoe. This brutal episode in British history is related to Irish pamphleteer Charles Leslie by Corrag, an accused witch and healer who tried to save members of the clan. British author Fletcher […]
Christmas Mourning
Library Journal: As Christmas approaches, series regular North Carolina judge Deborah Knott (Sand Sharks) investigates a car crash that killed a popular young woman, racing against the clock to solve what might not have been an accident. A solid choice for Maron's many fans.
Our Kind of Traitor
The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani: …John le Carré’s bullet train of a new thriller is part vintage John le Carré and part Alfred Hitchcock…the suspense in Our Kind of Traitor is genuine and nerve-racking, as [le Carré] tracks the efforts of Gail and Perry and Luke to negotiate a deal between Dima and […]
Great House
The New York Times – Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: What gives the quickening of life to this elegiac novel…[is] exquisitely chosen sensory details that reverberate with emotional intensity…Krauss has taken great risks in dispensing with the whimsy and humor that she summoned for her tragic vision in The History of Love. Here she gives us her […]
The Identity Man
Indulgence In Death
Publishers Weekly Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department returns home from a long overdue Irish vacation to a string of bizarre murders in Robb's thrilling 32nd future cop novel (after Fantasy in Death). The crossbow killing of chauffeur Jamal Houston in his limo in a La Guardia parking lot is […]
Death's Excellent Vacation
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Pansy Parker. Publishers Weekly: Harris and Kelner's third short-story anthology sends paranormals on vacation. Some of the 13 journeys are romps: Harris dispatches Sookie Stackhouse on a weekend getaway with an errand to a strip club that involves more than Sookie bargained for, in "Two Blondes." Katie MacAlister […]